CABLE TO RUCWAAA/FBIS RESTON VA FROM FBIS LONDON UK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92-00053R000300270012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 27, 1988
• Content Type: CABLE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/10: CIA-RDP92-00053R000300270012-0
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kRP3r'$IAN PATRIARCH GIVES ADDRFS'
USiR; Armenian Patriarch Delivers Address
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Yerevan in Armenian to Europe 2130 &!1T Z5 Feb 38 (Tentative)
[Text) Vazgen Ir supreme Patriarch of the Armenian Church,
lave an address-on 4lsenian television fast night. He said: :t
greet you on behatt of the Armenian Church and I convey to you
the blessings of.the hoty Echaietdzin. I. toop as profoundly
concerned about awd share our. people's emotion over the issu,'of
attaching 'the oouptainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh Obta,st to.
I belfive that this demand is natural, legal. and constitutionat.
Therefo",r I 'see confident that the ..U$sA .Higher outhoritie-s wilt
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arrivee,,~, .th.the:.utmost sotemnity,' at a Just and impsrtist
dEti''itaI ; taftensurate With the' perestroykp and democracy: of our
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days.
?ie receiving at present many tett'grams and teleptont
cants fr'os our chareh and eutturat organizations abroad.: to
their calls, tho''lopoalwizations'. on boitsti of sore than 2 Mitlton
higher (cadetshi fop a rust sotatiss uf the Armenian ~!egio of,;
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Magorn
-Kl at:l~atk :'# : se~tardarnce .with tine 3otrt ~ Conatjt%,tien
the. decision of moo Soviet of the :peapt~r# i;detrvtfes air
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f, de#Ii~Oealacy:
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In respons? 'ta :~qrc `emits, I. sent a e~oopr+ #ens .ve t+pte ras toda
to our country'$ top Leaderr est*esed';Mfkhail6orbathev. asking
for h i s ' decisIVo'IMtercessIon- iA fa"t of the 13 g.iratfons. of the
Armenian:inhabftsnts of Nagorno-Isar kh?
The Ar~aenf.an,;peoptesr in Areenid "and' .ebroad. have atsays
faithfutty backed the fraternal b4$ts?pindding . the' USSR peoples
and the hi storfcatty rooted frien shi itfth the ,Russf an peoples
higher authorities of our 'country y th optisis*rparticutarlr
+lt. of you knew thit _our_ hfpher authorfti fiiv .' ffi~~e-d !~"} ' ``
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toil +~d `the her aut orities in tour` country. to reoa~n peacefwi
aif :.eopte expressions.' Ev.rythiee#i has atready been~said in
fie9gfJV 'Iarobakh and find. W: 'tuord '.i~hdistinct3 and lavfut
sstt~'(client for it on the :basis .of the right of self-determination
fQr he_ nationalities in the ;Soviet union.
u#.ait < woo ttiscuss the lssue.'of t1%* Armenian region of .,.
tharTt,`at hiiyb-tOvel meeting v$t4 be held in Moscow in the very near.
andt Or'li-~fi Ap -ayr. yourself` to i-er' daily work and (Ttasicte)
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net t:herin Arsenic no in Az.rbal jan.
Tai*$.. ?ra*t -,assured, is ate. the cessage that your Armenian
brothers -a*d: sisters direct at route If this is not donee the
suece sfyl teou~rse of the just 4ssauasiay be disturbed and we may
oe c+ llfronted ritk coopticstions , The objective for us all must be
not to ;cause justice to fait but to"b?etp it triumph.
A`f!ntion.' Attention! Listen to ey voice, listen to sty fatrerty
adtricie. Before our fatherland and our nation, and i*bued with a
profound sense of responsibility, 1 appeat to you all as the
ostr1,at?ch of all Armenians in the words of the Hoty, Bible:
Peate"be upon those who are far and those iho are near, and
peach be upon alt.. Alen.
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betV.*,1 t.be Arsehian and 'Aserbaffeai ?peop'tes like the P0 to of ones
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