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Sudan Vision Daily, Sudan
Dec 24 2011
Sudan Slams France's Parliamentary Vote on Armenian Genocide Bill
Khartoum - The Sudanese government denounced a French parliamentary
bill criminalizing those who deny that the 1915 mass killing of
Armenians by Ottoman Turks amounted to genocide.
The draft law angered the Turkish government which swiftly recalled
its ambassador to Paris and cancelled all joint economic, political
and military meetings.
Khartoum expressed solidarity with Ankara in its row with Paris.
`The [Sudanese] Ministry of Foreign Affairs would like to express its
surprise and deep condemnation of this position by the French
Parliament, which we do not find any explanation for except that it
considers the right to differ in the understanding of history and
expression of that understanding a crime punishable by law, and at the
same time insists on the trial of history facts even on which there is
no interpretation agreement,' the statement said.
`The insistence of the current French leadership on labeling the
Turkish state with what it considers acts in violation of the law and
linking it to the Islamic identity of the Turkish people is nothing
but a clear attempt to label Islamic history as such and criminalizing
the Islamic Caliphate era, in the context of the French position known
to oppose Turkey joining the European Union in light of the identity
of its Muslim population'.
`The Sudanese Foreign Ministry.....declares solidarity with the people
and Government of Turkey, and calls upon all peace-loving nations of
justice to stand against attempts to stir up hatred between nations
and people on the basis of ethnic or religious identity'.
http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid3854
From: A. Papazian
Dec 24 2011
Sudan Slams France's Parliamentary Vote on Armenian Genocide Bill
Khartoum - The Sudanese government denounced a French parliamentary
bill criminalizing those who deny that the 1915 mass killing of
Armenians by Ottoman Turks amounted to genocide.
The draft law angered the Turkish government which swiftly recalled
its ambassador to Paris and cancelled all joint economic, political
and military meetings.
Khartoum expressed solidarity with Ankara in its row with Paris.
`The [Sudanese] Ministry of Foreign Affairs would like to express its
surprise and deep condemnation of this position by the French
Parliament, which we do not find any explanation for except that it
considers the right to differ in the understanding of history and
expression of that understanding a crime punishable by law, and at the
same time insists on the trial of history facts even on which there is
no interpretation agreement,' the statement said.
`The insistence of the current French leadership on labeling the
Turkish state with what it considers acts in violation of the law and
linking it to the Islamic identity of the Turkish people is nothing
but a clear attempt to label Islamic history as such and criminalizing
the Islamic Caliphate era, in the context of the French position known
to oppose Turkey joining the European Union in light of the identity
of its Muslim population'.
`The Sudanese Foreign Ministry.....declares solidarity with the people
and Government of Turkey, and calls upon all peace-loving nations of
justice to stand against attempts to stir up hatred between nations
and people on the basis of ethnic or religious identity'.
http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid3854
From: A. Papazian