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- From: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian)
- Subject: Update on Azerbaijani Threatened Nuclear Attack on Armenia
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.040416.17306@urartu.sdpa.org>
- Organization: S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:04:16 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- The following is a compilation of various sources regarding the threatened
- Azerbaijani nuclear attack against Armenia.
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- I want to thank those who contributed to this compilation.
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- Radio Liberty Daily Report No. 221, 16 November 1992 AZERBAIJANI INTERIOR
- MINISTER THREATENS NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST ARMENIA. Azerbaijani Interior
- Minister Iskander Gamidov, who has ties with the Turkish right wing National
- Labor Party ("Grey Wolves), claimed at the third congress of the Azerbaijan
- Musavat Party in Baku that Azerbaijan has a total of six nuclear weapons, and
- that "if the Armenians do not come to their senses" he would authorize a
- nuclear strike against Erevan, according to Rossiiskaya gazeta of 13 November.
- Gamidov also reportedly advocated the creation of a Turanian state that would
- encompass northern Iran, and extend to Siberia, China and India. (Liz Fuller,
- RFE/RL, Inc.)
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- Turan News Agency (Baku) BAKU (20 Nov.) TURAN: Chairman of the parliament isa
- gambarov distributd the official statement, running that Azerbaijan had no
- nuclear weapons on his territory.
- It was interior minister iskander hamidov who engineered another political
- fight with his next baloney. The minister pubicaly declared that he had
- several nuclar bombs and would drop them on armenia, should the latter fail to
- stop its aggression against Azerbaijan.
- The chairman of the parliament announced at the milli mejlis today that such
- irresponsible declarations were giving rise to the world community's distrucst
- and might have grave complications for the republic.
- Members of the milli mejlis also condemn the interior minister's actions.
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