FRENCH GOVERNMENT OPPOSES TO VOTING IN FRENCH PARLIAMENT, POUDADE

Anatolian Times, Turkey
May 15 2006

TOKAT – “French government opposes to the voting that will take
place in the French parliament pertaining to the draft resolution
on so-called Armenian genocide,” French Ambassador in Ankara Paul
Poudade said on Monday.

Speaking after his meeting with Erdogan Gurbuz, governor of Black Sea
city of Tokat, Poudade said, “we hope this resolution would not harm
Turkish-French relations. French parliament opposes to the voting.

The sensitivity of this issue was earlier disclosed by French President
Jacques Chirac and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”

French Socialist Party submitted a resolution to the French parliament
which makes any denial of the so-called Armenian genocide a crime.