EU STARTING DISCUSSION OF LAWS PROVIDING FOR PUNISHMENT OF GENOCIDE DENIAL
By H. Chaqrian
AZG Armenian Daily
20/04/2007
Today on the meeting of the Internal Affairs Ministers of EU member
states a legislation bill project against "chauvinism and xenophobia"
shall be discussed. This bill, elaborated in Germany, the present
chair state of the EU, provides for punishment of all genocides ever
perpetrated throughout the human history, including the Armenian
Genocide of 1915.
The public television of Turkey reporting the news underlined that
official Ankara stands against the adoption of this bill, and the EU
member states have not come to consensus about it.
Time will tell when will the legislation against "chauvinism and
xenophobia" be adopted. In any case it’s obvious that Germany is
clearing a way to consolidation of the European states about genocide
denial.