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  • ARF Calls On Sarkozy To Condemn FM's Offer For Genocide Commission

    ARF CALLS ON SARKOZY TO CONDEMN FM'S OFFER FOR GENOCIDE COMMISSION

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    November 22, 2011 - 16:17 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Central
    Committee of France issued a statement calling on President Nicolas
    Sarkozy to condemn his Foreign Minister's proposal to establish a
    commission that would study the Armenian Genocide, Asbarez reported
    citing a publication in Nouvelles Armenie.

    Speaking during a press conference last week in Turkey, French Foreign
    Minister Alain Juppe called the period of the Armenian Genocide hard
    for both Armenians and Turks and expressed France's willingness for
    the establishment of a commission to study the Armenian Genocide.

    While visiting Armenia last month, Sarkozy, in no uncertain terms
    called on Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide. He added that if
    Turkey did not come to terms with its past, other countries would have
    to step in to right the historical wrong.

    The ARF statement says:

    "The ARF learned of the intention expressed by Alain Juppe to set up a
    commission of Armenian and Turkish historians in France to study the
    period in the history regarding the Armenian Genocide.

    ARF is furious at the Foreign Minister for his remarks, which
    potentially cast doubt on the veracity of the Armenian Genocide. Such
    statements are not acceptable. They contain hints of policy of denial.

    Statements by Alain Juppe significantly minimize the words of
    [President] Nicolas Sarkozy, who called on Turkey to recognize the
    Armenian Genocide.

    The French government can not simultaneously call on Turkey to
    recognize the Armenian Genocide and proposer a commission of
    historians which must decide on the reality of the Armenian Genocide.

    This is an intolerable contradiction by the French authorities, who
    apparently decided to play a game of double standards of truth and
    denial. This impression is further reinforced by the fact that when
    Nicolas Sarkozy was in Armenia, [France's Interior Minister] Claude
    Gueant was hastily dispatched to Turkey.

    We can not bear this duplicity and ask Sarkozy to express open
    disapproval of the position of Alain Juppe, contrary to President's
    statements made in Yerevan. The Armenian community is angered and
    looks forward to decisive action by the President of the Republic.

    Inclusion of the bill criminalizing denial of Armenian Genocide in the
    Senate's agenda is urgent. Nicolas Sarkozy promised to do so in
    Yerevan, let him keep his promise."

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