The World - News from May 23, 1989

Authorities in the disputed Soviet region of Nagorno-Karabakh have renewed an appeal for its transfer to Armenia and for an end to direct rule from Moscow, the Tass news agency said. The executive committee of the city council in Stepanakert, the region’s capital, issued the appeal before Thursday’s inaugural session of the new Soviet assembly, the Congress of People’s Deputies, Tass said. The news agency also reported that the situation in the region, an Armenian enclave in the mainly Muslim republic of Azerbaijan, remains difficult, with factory and construction workers on strike.