[21 January 1988]
Report of a Karabagh delegation meeting with Soviet official in Moscow.
In a press conference here on Jan. 21, a prominent from Moscow, Edmond Keosoyan, revealed that a delegation from Karabagh has met with Dimitri Demichev, a high-ranking Soviet official in Moscow, and has presented him a petition demanding the integration of Karabagh with Soviet Armenia
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Director Keoseyan said the 15-member delegation met with Demichev for more than an hour, after which it handed him the petition signed by close to 100,000 [75,000 by other estimates] persons. According to Kesoyan, the Soviet official promised the delegation members that he will forward their case to the Committee of Nationalities for their evaluation.
[Asbarez, Los Angeles, February 6, 1988]
The Karabagh File, Documents and Facts, 1918-1988, First Edition, Cambridge Toronto 1988, by the ZORYAN INSTITUTE, edited by: Gerard J. LIBARIDIAN, p. 89.
Image – Igor Muradyan in Opera square, 1988
