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    EUROPE'S ENLARGEMENT COMMISSIONER HAS DENOUNCED THE BILL

    EuroNews
    Oct 12 2006

    This comes barely six months before French elections and amid a climate
    of strong French voter opposition to Turkey's potential future EU
    entry. France's Armenian community numbers around 500,000.

    President Jacques Chirac at a commemoration ceremony recently said
    he believes Turkish acceptance of the country's role in the deaths
    ought to be a condition for its European Union membership.

    When these negotiations began a year ago, it was not a pre-condition.

    Chirac said all countries grow by coming to terms with their dramas
    and errors. EU enlargement spokesperson Krisztina Nagy, in Brussels
    made the European stance clear: "For the concrete framework for the
    negotiations with Turkey, the European Council has taken a decision,
    and this decision does not include the recognition of the Armenian
    genocide as a criterion for accession for Turkey." The European
    Commission warned France that it could hinder efforts to end decades
    of dispute over the killings. Nagy said: "It is not up to law to
    write history."
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