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AZERBAIJAN CONDEMNS FRENCH VOTE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAW
By Zulfugar Agayev
Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-24/azerbaijan-condemns-french-vote-on-armenian-genocide-law.html
Jan 24 2012
Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Azerbaijan condemned the French Senate's
approval of legislation making it a crime to deny that the mass
killing of Armenians early last century was genocide.
The move may "undermine France's participation in some developments
in the region," the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in an emailed
statement today. The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party called on France
to withdraw from co-chairmanship of the so-called Minsk Group,
which mediates in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, because it has lost its credibility as an honest broker,
the APA news agency reported.
French oil company Total SA has a 10 percent stake in the BP Plc-led
Shah Deniz natural-gas development. Total is also developing the
Absheron field, which holds some 350 billion cubic meters of gas.
Azerbaijan has close ethnic and political ties with neighboring Turkey,
which vowed to fight the French measure, risking a further round of
Turkish sanctions and deterioration in relations.
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--With assistance from Henry Meyer in Moscow. Editor: Hellmuth Tromm.
By Zulfugar Agayev
Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-24/azerbaijan-condemns-french-vote-on-armenian-genocide-law.html
Jan 24 2012
Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Azerbaijan condemned the French Senate's
approval of legislation making it a crime to deny that the mass
killing of Armenians early last century was genocide.
The move may "undermine France's participation in some developments
in the region," the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in an emailed
statement today. The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party called on France
to withdraw from co-chairmanship of the so-called Minsk Group,
which mediates in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, because it has lost its credibility as an honest broker,
the APA news agency reported.
French oil company Total SA has a 10 percent stake in the BP Plc-led
Shah Deniz natural-gas development. Total is also developing the
Absheron field, which holds some 350 billion cubic meters of gas.
Azerbaijan has close ethnic and political ties with neighboring Turkey,
which vowed to fight the French measure, risking a further round of
Turkish sanctions and deterioration in relations.
Top Turkey news: TOP TR Turkey politics news: TNI TURKEY POL
Turkish economic snapshot: ESNP TU Bloomberg News in Turkish:
NH TBN
--With assistance from Henry Meyer in Moscow. Editor: Hellmuth Tromm.