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Azerbaijan intensifies attack

Emergency in Nagorny-Karabakh
MOSCOW. June 19: The Nagorny-Karabakh government introduced a state of emergency Thursday. while Azerbaijan intensified its offensive to regain lost territory, reports AP.
The Itar-Tass news agency also said the Nagorny-Karabakh parliament sanctioned the start of a guerilla war against Azerbaijani forces, which were closing in on the regional center of Mardakcrt.
The week-old Azerbaijani offensive follows the election earlier this month Ebulfez Elcibcy as president. The leader of the hawkish Popular Front has pledged to take back all territory lost by his country in four years of fighting with Armenians for control of Nagorny-Karabakh.
Nagorny-Karabakh is a mainly Armenian enclave in-, side Azerbaijan.
The classes in the past week between revitalized Azerbaijani forces and Armenian militants arc some of the heaviest in more than four years of fighting for con-
trol of Nagorny-Karabakh.
The state of emergency called by the enclave's parliament was to last for one month, but no details about it were given.
The Nagorny-Karabakh government also announced a general mobilization, but it was not likely to have much impact since many man in the enclave
arc already under arms.
Backed ,by about 20 tanks and 50 armored personnel carriers, the Azerbaijanis were trying to take Mardakcrt. according to the Armenian Defense Ministry. The ministry claimed ethnic Russians were fighting on the side of the Azerbaijanis.
Itar-Tass said a group of
Armenian militants had threatened to blow up a hydroelectric dam near Mardakert to flood villages In nearby Azerbaijan. The Nagorny-Karabakh parliament condemned the threat, saying it would harm Armenians as well.
The Interfax news agency quoted a statement by Elcibcy in which he appealed to the United Nations. NATO, and the Council for Security and Cooperation in Europe to prevent Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan.
The Armenian Defence Ministry said Armenian forces had retaken the villages of Syrkhavend and kazancht, but about 20 Armenians and some 200 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed during fighting over the past 24 hours.
The ministry also said about 50 Armenians and 200 Azerbaijanis were killed during the past two to three days in the Askeran region of Nagorny-Karabakh. Askeran is a key town that links the Nagorny-Karabakh capital of Stepanakert with the eastern part of the enclave.