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TURKISH FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE WELCOMES FRENCH COMMITTEE'S DECISION
Anadolu Agency
Jan 19 2012
Turkey
Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee welcomed the decision
of a French parliamentary committee which approved an amendment that
might avert a debate at the Senate floor on a bill making it a crime
to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915.
Releasing a statement, the committee said that it expected the French
Senate to act with the same common sense while voting the bill.
A committee with the French parliament approved on Wednesday an
amendment that may avert a debate at the Senate floor on a bill
which makes it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman
era incidents of 1915.
The bill is set to come to the Senate floor next Monday but French
Senate members could vote to uphold the Legislations Committee's
decision and drop the bill off the agenda without debating it.
The bill, which got the approval of the lower house of the French
parliament, makes denial of Ottoman era incidents of 1915 punishable
in France with a prison term of one year and a fine of 45,000 euro.
A similar bill -- proposed by the Socialist Party -- was approved in
2006 by the lower house but the Senate rejected to debate the bill
last May when it upheld the committee's decision back then.
Anadolu Agency
Jan 19 2012
Turkey
Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee welcomed the decision
of a French parliamentary committee which approved an amendment that
might avert a debate at the Senate floor on a bill making it a crime
to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915.
Releasing a statement, the committee said that it expected the French
Senate to act with the same common sense while voting the bill.
A committee with the French parliament approved on Wednesday an
amendment that may avert a debate at the Senate floor on a bill
which makes it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman
era incidents of 1915.
The bill is set to come to the Senate floor next Monday but French
Senate members could vote to uphold the Legislations Committee's
decision and drop the bill off the agenda without debating it.
The bill, which got the approval of the lower house of the French
parliament, makes denial of Ottoman era incidents of 1915 punishable
in France with a prison term of one year and a fine of 45,000 euro.
A similar bill -- proposed by the Socialist Party -- was approved in
2006 by the lower house but the Senate rejected to debate the bill
last May when it upheld the committee's decision back then.