Without Libya, French Senate's hands would be less tied, expert says
May 5, 2011 - 12:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net -
Politics is the art of possibilities. In current conditions, France
won't benefit from promoting the Armenian issue, a political expert
said.
`The involvement in Libya military operation drastically opposed Paris
to the Muslim world. With the presidential elections under way, Senate
is careful as to their policies to avoid losing Muslim part of their
electorate,' Sergey Markedonov told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
`Without Libya, the law-makers would have had their hands less tied.
Thus, the real policy has once again pushed the restoration of the
historic justice to the background, which has long become a foreign
policy rule.'
Still, as the expert noted, Senate's killing the Genocide denial
criminalization bill does in no way cancel the Fifth French Republic
acts recognizing 1915 massacres as Genocide.
The French Senate on May 4 rejected a bill penalizing the denial of
Armenian Genocide. The bill, which was recently rejected by the French
Senate Constitution Commission, envisioned five years in prison and a
fine of up to 45,000 euros for people on French soil who deny the
Armenian Genocide.
From: A. Papazian
May 5, 2011 - 12:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net -
Politics is the art of possibilities. In current conditions, France
won't benefit from promoting the Armenian issue, a political expert
said.
`The involvement in Libya military operation drastically opposed Paris
to the Muslim world. With the presidential elections under way, Senate
is careful as to their policies to avoid losing Muslim part of their
electorate,' Sergey Markedonov told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
`Without Libya, the law-makers would have had their hands less tied.
Thus, the real policy has once again pushed the restoration of the
historic justice to the background, which has long become a foreign
policy rule.'
Still, as the expert noted, Senate's killing the Genocide denial
criminalization bill does in no way cancel the Fifth French Republic
acts recognizing 1915 massacres as Genocide.
The French Senate on May 4 rejected a bill penalizing the denial of
Armenian Genocide. The bill, which was recently rejected by the French
Senate Constitution Commission, envisioned five years in prison and a
fine of up to 45,000 euros for people on French soil who deny the
Armenian Genocide.
From: A. Papazian