Exiled Armenian Arrives in Paris
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PARIS — An Armenian nationalist exiled from the Soviet Union for promoting dissent arrived in Paris on Monday on his way to asylum in the United States.
Paruir Airikyan, 39, had flown from Rome, his second stop following the expulsion, which took him first to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Airikyan was prominent in the drive to unite the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, with Soviet Armenia.
Airikyan was arrested last March in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on charges of defaming the Soviet state and was forced to leave the Soviet Union.
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