Armenpress News Agency, Armenia
February 3, 2018 Saturday


Lawyers to work for re-introducing criminalization of denial of
Armenian Genocide in France



YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 3, ARMENPRESS. Soon lawyers will begin working to
once again introduce the issue of criminalizing the denial of the
Armenian Genocide in France to the agenda, Co-Chair of the
Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France Murad
Papazian told a press conference.

“Our lawyers didn’t begin working with the government’s lawyers yet.
As you know, during the annual dinner of CCAF, President Macron said
he is in favor for this process to have new course. The President also
gave his agreement for April 24 to be declared as Armenian Genocide
Commemoration Day in the calendar. We must again go into this
struggle, but already from a new angle”, he said.

According to Papazian, since the majority of MPs of France have
changed after the election, active work with parliamentarians is
implied. The Armenian community has already begun establishing
contacts with them.

Another important event is the Francophonie Summit in Yerevan of 2018,
which the French President will attend.

“We, as Diaspora, as French-Armenians, must have our role. I think
also to give political nature to that event, use this opportunity and
have new allies. To remind that Turkey and Azerbaijan aren’t
participating”, he said.