The World - News from March 10, 1988

Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev indicated that no changes will be made in the status of a disputed region of Soviet Azerbaijan at the center of ethnic unrest involving the neighboring Armenian republic. Gorbachev said a high-level investigation is being launched into the issue of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Armenians want to be part of their republic. “At the same time, the Communist parties of Azerbaijan and Armenia are recommended to work out a series of long-term measures to improve the internationalist education of the workers,” he said. Soviet and foreign analysts told Reuters that the reference to “internationalist education” was a message to Armenians to put aside their nationalist aspirations.