FRENCH PARLIAMENT ENDS SESSION ON BILL CRIMINALIZING DENIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WITHOUT VOTING

Anatolian Times, Turkey
May 22 2006

PARIS – French parliament ended today’s session on a draft law which
proposes “any denial of Armenian genocide to be considered a crime”
without bringing it to voting.

French National Assembly President Jean-Louis Debre closed the session
without voting on the draft law. The issue will be taken up later.

French parliament sources said that a possible voting on the draft
law would not be held until new legislation term began in October.