Armenian foreign minister, French delegation discuss recognition of genocide

Arminfo
23 Apr 05

YEREVAN

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan today met members of the
delegation of the French parliament who are visiting Yerevan to
participate in events dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the
Armenian genocide.

The delegation includes the president of the Union for French
Democracy, Francois Bayrou, the member of the party’s political
bureau, Alexis Govciyan, the member of parliament and former deputy
chairman of the National Assembly, Rudy Salles, and representatives of
France’s Armenian community, the press service of the state commission
for organizing events dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the
Armenian genocide has told our correspondent.

The Armenian foreign minister thanked France and its people for
participating in issues concerning Armenia. “France is one of the key
European countries and it is of special importance for Armenia to
establish closer relations with France,” the Armenian foreign minister
stressed.

Oskanyan also stressed the importance of France’s legislative
recognition of the Armenian genocide, which stimulated the process of
discussing the issue in the contexts of international and European
processes.

The sides exchanged views on regional and international issues. They
discussed in detail the current stage of settling the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict, as well as Armenian-Turkish relations and ways of
solving them.

The French delegation visited the Tsitsernakaberd memorial to the
victims of the Armenian genocide today, according to the report.