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France: Armenian Genocide Recognition is Law Obligatory for Everyone
30.09.2006 15:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ `I would like to remind that France recognized the
Armenian Genocide on the state level. This is our law and it’s
obligatory for everyone,’ French President Jacques Chirac said at a
press conference in Yerevan when commenting to a Le Figaro reporter on
the Socialist Party’s initiative to adopt a law criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial. The French leader underscored that France is
a legal state and any demonstration of racism and xenophobia is
punished in compliance with the Penal Code. `The rest, in my opinion,
is politics having nothing in common with the legal side of the
issue,’ he said.