TURKEY SUSPENDS NEGOTIATIONS WITH "GASE DE FRANCE" BECAUSE OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
By Paruyr Qeshishian

AZG Armenian Daily
10/04/2007

The construction of the "Nabuco" gas pipeline, which is to connect
Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungaria, is suspended due to reasons of
political matter. On April 5 the "Botas" company, Turkey, stopped
negotiations with "Gase de France" on the construction of the
pipeline’s Turkish part.

According to official Ankara, the talks were stopped because of the
official position of France on the Armenian Genocide.

According to the legislation adopted by the French Parliament in
October 2006, denial of the fact of the Armenian Genocide is a
punishable crime. The law will finally come into power after being
approved by the Senate and the President of France. In that case
Turkey’s membership in the EU will become seriously dubitable.

Three days before the negotiations with "Gase de France" were suspended
"Nouvelle d’Armenie" revue published a statement of Segolene Royal,
socialist candidate for the post of the President of the French
Republic, that he shall approve the law about the Genocide in case
of being elected.