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Paris mayoral candidate: Turkey can't join EU unless Genocide recognized
February 8, 2014 - 15:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist candidate for mayor of
Paris named Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide as a
precondition for Ankara's accession to the EU.
"The recognition will make Turkey stronger," Cihan Haber quoted her as saying.
Ms Hidalgo further expressed support for adoption of the Genocide
denial law, further referring to President Hollande's pledge to work
out a legal instrument that won't meet the ban of the Constitutional
Court.
"Denial of tragic pages of history is what prevents building a new
future," she said.
Ms Hidalgo vowed to perpetuate the April 24 commemorative events if
elected a mayor, with Paris Mayor's Office to extend financial support
to the Genocide centennial events in 2015.
On January 23, 2012 the French Senate passed the bill making it a
crime to deny the Armenian Genocide. The bill envisaged a 45,000 euro
fine and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime
against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire. However, the French
Constitutional Council ruled the bill as anti-constitutional. In a
statement the Council said the document represented an
"unconstitutional breach of the practice of freedom of expression and
communication
Later, President Hollande pledged to redraft the law criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial in France, stressing the need to ensure the
legal framework to avoid censorship by the Constitutional Council.
From: Baghdasarian
February 8, 2014 - 15:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist candidate for mayor of
Paris named Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide as a
precondition for Ankara's accession to the EU.
"The recognition will make Turkey stronger," Cihan Haber quoted her as saying.
Ms Hidalgo further expressed support for adoption of the Genocide
denial law, further referring to President Hollande's pledge to work
out a legal instrument that won't meet the ban of the Constitutional
Court.
"Denial of tragic pages of history is what prevents building a new
future," she said.
Ms Hidalgo vowed to perpetuate the April 24 commemorative events if
elected a mayor, with Paris Mayor's Office to extend financial support
to the Genocide centennial events in 2015.
On January 23, 2012 the French Senate passed the bill making it a
crime to deny the Armenian Genocide. The bill envisaged a 45,000 euro
fine and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime
against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire. However, the French
Constitutional Council ruled the bill as anti-constitutional. In a
statement the Council said the document represented an
"unconstitutional breach of the practice of freedom of expression and
communication
Later, President Hollande pledged to redraft the law criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial in France, stressing the need to ensure the
legal framework to avoid censorship by the Constitutional Council.
From: Baghdasarian