Armenian Leader Argues for Russian Truce Force

From: The Washington Post | Date: August 11, 1994| Author: A. D. Horne | Copyright information

Ending the six-year-old war between Armenians and Azeris in the ethnic tinderbox of the Caucasus "depends entirely on a decision to deploy separation forces" between the combatants, Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrossian declared yesterday.

The "separation forces," he said in a Blair House interview, would be largely Russian troops, to be interposed between Azerbaijan's army and the ethnic Armenian forces that have pushed out of Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-K...

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