IN EU’S BILL OF DENYING GENOCIDE NO WORD ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
20.02.2007 17:15 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "In the bill of denying Holocaust, genocide and
war crimes during the conflicts in Africa and the Balkans during the
past two decades there is not mention about the Armenian Genocide,
stated German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the joint
conference in Yerevan. He said, adoption of the bill presented by
Germany in the EU is extremely difficult.
"Every country has its own laws and different approaches to this
issue," Steinmeier said.
Germany has performed a legislative initiative, according to
which citizens of the European Union can be sentenced to 3 years
of imprisonment for denying Holocaust, as well as genocide and war
crimes in the conflicts of Africa and the Balkans during the past
two decades. If approved by the parliament of the united Europe, the
bill will come into effect in spring of 2007. The text of the document
states that every EU member-state "will make every efforts to punish
for the facts of public justification, denial or rough simplification
of the crimes against humanity, genocide or war crimes." At the end
of 2006 the French Parliament approved the bill, which supposes ~@
45 000 fine for denying the Armenian Genocide during World War I in
Ottoman Empire or 3 years of imprisonment.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
