Two Azerbaijan Officials Removed
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MOSCOW — Two senior officials have been removed in Soviet Azerbaijan, where violent ethnic unrest has broken out this year over Armenian demands to recover the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The latest edition of the Azerbaijani party daily newspaper Bakinsky Rabochy to reach Moscow said the republic’s deputy interior minister, T. Aslanov, has been retired while the head of the ministry’s staff department has been given other work.
The Interior Ministry deals largely with police matters.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a predominantly Armenian area within Azerbaijan, a largely Muslim republic.
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