POSSIBILITY TO ADOPT A LAW IN FRANCE ON CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT FOR DENYING GENOCIDE IS HIGH
PanARMENIAN.Net
13.03.2007 16:12 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The voting on the law in French Senate over making
it criminal to deny the Armenian Genocide will be held, most likely
after presidential and parliamentary elections, Chairman of the
Armenian Federation of Europe (EAFJD) Hilda Tchoboyan stated to a press
conference in Yerevan. She said, the possibility to adopt that law is
very high. "This issue is situated in the plane of moral and universal
values, and not of politics and history as the Turkish side tries
to present. The Turkish lobby in Europe and the political parties,
which assist them have made a lot of efforts in order to represent
the Armenian Genocide issue just from the historical viewpoint.
However, the Armenian side insisted on its stance; that is history
must not be fitted under politics and we succeeded. The matter is
not in recognizing the Genocide, France has already recognized it,
the matter is in punishment for its denial," Tchoboyan stressed.
She noticed presidential candidate and French Interior Minister Nicola
Sarkozy supports the bill. "In near future the Armenian community
of France will decide on support of candidates in presidential and
parliamentarian elections," the EAFJD representative said.