FRENCH PARLIAMENT REJECTS THE LAW PENALIZING THE NEGATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

ArmRadio.am
11.05.2006 10:28

Wednesday May 11, the commission of the laws of the French Parliament
rejected the suggestion of the law aiming at penalizing the negation
of the Armenian Genocide. This decision follows upon a request of
French President Jacques Chirac. The French Deputies, however, remain
free to take part in programmed work on May 18.

“We fear that certain deputies sacrifice the memory of the victims of
the Armenian genocide, on the furnace bridge of the real political
while yielding to the political and economic pressures exerted by
Turkey,” said Alexis Govciyan, C hairman of the Coordination Council
of the Armenian Organizations of France.