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    Newsroom Finland, Finland
    Oct 13 2006

    Rehn criticises France's Armenian genocide bill

    13.10.2006 at 15:00

    Olli Rehn, the European Union's enlargement commissioner, said in a
    news conference Friday that the French parliament's adoption on
    Thursday of a bill making it a crime to deny that the killing of
    Armenians in 1915-17 by Ottoman Turks amounted to genocide was
    harmful as it made a historical debate in Turkey more difficult.

    Mr Rehn, the Finnish member of the commission, added that the bill,
    if approved by the French senate, would probably halt the nascent
    debate in Turkey.

    Turkey says the killing of 1.5 Armenians was not a genocide.
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