FRENCH SOCIALISTS: GENOCIDE RECOGNITION SHOULD BE PRECONDITION FOR TURKEY EU ACCESSION

PanARMENIAN.Net
02.10.2006 14:35 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Socialist Party of France shares the opinion of
President Chirac that Turkey should recognize the Armenian Genocide
before accession to the EU, a leader of the party, former Finance
Minister of France Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is going to run for the
President next year, stated yesterday. Friday in Yerevan J. Chirac
stated that Turkey should recognize the Armenian Genocide if it
wants to join the EU. "The stance of the Socialist Party of France
lies in it as well. We believe that acknowledgement of the Armenian
Genocide should be precondition for Turkey’s accession to the EU,"
Dominique Strauss-Kahn noted. He added, that this precondition is a
symbolical one, reports RFE/RL.