FRENCH PARLIAMENT DEFER VOTE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS

NTV MSNBC, Turkey
May 18 2006

Ankara has strongly protested against the French bill.

NTV-MSNBC
Guncelleme: 17:54 TSÝ 18 Mayýs 2006 PerþembePARÝS – The French
parliament on Thursday was forced to put off a vote on legislation
that would have made claims that the Ottoman Empire did not commit
an act of genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War
One a criminal offence.

Debate of the proposed law was curtailed due to the session starting
late and was not completed when the time allocated for the debate
ran out.

Further debate on the opposition sponsored bill will not take place
until October at the earliest.

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