WORLD : State of Emergency in Armenia
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MOSCOW — Armenia’s Parliament declared a state of emergency today and banned the largest armed group in the southern Soviet republic after overnight battles that killed up to six people, including a parliamentary deputy.
Parliament voted 170 to 0 with two abstentions to outlaw the Armenian National Army. It ordered ANA militants to give up their arms by 10 p.m. and abandon their heavily fortified headquarters in the republic’s capital, Yerevan.
If the deadline is not met, officials said, the republic’s Interior Ministry and KGB security service troops will move against the group. But ANA militants vowed not to surrender their weapons and called for negotiations with parliamentary leaders.
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