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    LIBERALS IN EP CRITICISE FRENCH ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAW

    Kuwait News Agency
    http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2217051&language=en
    Jan 24 2012

    BRUSSELS, Jan 24 (KUNA) -- The adoption yesterday by the French senate
    of a law which makes the denial of an alleged genocide of Armenians
    by Turkey a punishable offence was strongly criticised Tuesday by
    the Liberals, Group, ALDE, in the Europdean Parliament.

    Alexander Graf Lanbsdorf responsible for EU-Turkey affairs for the
    group said: "Yesterday's decision by the French Senate is an additional
    burden on already strained Turkish-European relations".

    Apart from a few, narrowly defined and politically justified
    exceptions, assertions of historical facts should be left to historians
    and should certainly not be made a crime. The vote in the Senate is
    all the more incomprehensible because the alleged Turkish genocide
    of Armenians in 1915 is an event in which France was not involved in
    any way he said in a statement.

    Andrew Duff ALDE member of EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee
    added: "The French parliament is wrong to play the role of a court.

    The definition of genocide is properly a judicial matter and should
    not be reduced to the banality of party politics".

    ALDE is the third biggest political group in the EP. (end) nk.mt KUNA
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