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- £ WORLD, Page 43World NotesNEGOTIATIONSMoscow, Stay Out
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- Armenians and Azerbaijanis finally sat down to discuss their
- differences last week, but not on their own turf. Instead
- representatives from the two Soviet republics gathered in Riga,
- the capital of Latvia. Leaders of the Azerbaijani Popular Front
- and the Armenian National Movement accepted a call from their
- Baltic counterparts to open talks on their two years of violent
- clashes. Emerging from the first session, both groups agreed
- to seek the release of all hostages by March 1 and to establish
- permanent relations between the two groups. No speedy peace
- settlement is expected, if only because the Azerbaijanis
- refused to discuss the future of Nagorno-Karabakh, the center
- of the dispute. Even so, the multifront meeting illustrates a
- dramatic shift of power from Moscow into the hands of local
- nationalists.
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