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    SARKOZY WILL REDRAFT GENOCIDE BILL IF IT FAILS

    Ottawa Citizen
    February 2, 2012 Thursday
    Final Edition

    President Nicolas Sarkozy will immediately submit a new draft of a law
    punishing denial of the Armenian genocide if France's top judicial
    body rejects it, two ministers said Wednesday. The law, which had
    been approved by the National Assembly and Senate, was put on hold
    Tuesday after politicians opposed to the legislation demanded that
    its constitutionality be examined. The council is obliged to deliver
    its judgment within a month, but this can be reduced to eight days
    if the government deems the matter urgent. Turkey reacted furiously
    last week when the Senate approved the law, which threatens with jail
    anyone in France who denies that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by
    Ottoman Turk forces amounted to genocide.

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