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    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
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