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FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROMISES TO AGAIN DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
epress.am
09.27.2011 13:53
Francois Hollande (pictured), the Socialist Party candidate for
the 2012 presidential elections in France, in Alfortville on Monday
declared in front of 400 French citizens of Armenian descent that
he would ask the French Senate's new left majority "to again take
[up] the bill aimed at repressing Armenian Genocide denial," reports
journalist Jean Eckian from Paris.
Hollande recalled that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has not
fulfilled his promise, which he made in 2007, on this matter.
The meeting with Hollande in the southeastern suburb of Paris was
organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun,
or ARF-D), which supports the socialist leader's candidacy in the
presidential election, writes Eckian.
Recall, the French Senate adopted a special law in 2001 that recognized
the Armenian Genocide. Turkey warned France against passing the bill,
saying trade and diplomatic relations would suffer. In 2006, the lower
house approved a bill which would criminally prosecute anyone who
publicly stated that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman
Turkey did not constitute genocide. However, the bill did not pass
the approval of the Upper Chamber and thus was not adopted.
epress.am
09.27.2011 13:53
Francois Hollande (pictured), the Socialist Party candidate for
the 2012 presidential elections in France, in Alfortville on Monday
declared in front of 400 French citizens of Armenian descent that
he would ask the French Senate's new left majority "to again take
[up] the bill aimed at repressing Armenian Genocide denial," reports
journalist Jean Eckian from Paris.
Hollande recalled that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has not
fulfilled his promise, which he made in 2007, on this matter.
The meeting with Hollande in the southeastern suburb of Paris was
organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun,
or ARF-D), which supports the socialist leader's candidacy in the
presidential election, writes Eckian.
Recall, the French Senate adopted a special law in 2001 that recognized
the Armenian Genocide. Turkey warned France against passing the bill,
saying trade and diplomatic relations would suffer. In 2006, the lower
house approved a bill which would criminally prosecute anyone who
publicly stated that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman
Turkey did not constitute genocide. However, the bill did not pass
the approval of the Upper Chamber and thus was not adopted.