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DATE: SUNDAY, June 24, 1990                   TAG: 9006240085
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MOSCOW                                LENGTH: Short

MOLDAVIA CLAIMS SOVEREIGNTY

The Parliament of Soviet Moldavia Saturday approved a declaration of sovereignty, following the Baltic republics and Russia with the claim that its laws supersede those of the Soviet Union, Tass reported.

In the Ukraine, the republic's Communist Party congress voted Saturday to support calls for a sovereignty resolution, Tass said. The Ukraine is the second-largest of the Soviet Union's 15 republics and its agricultural and industrial heartland. - Associated Press

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