Public Radio of Armenia
Oct 13 2006
Vartan Oskanian comments on the adoption of the bill on Genocide
negation in the French Parliament
13.10.2006 10:38
Commenting on the French National Assembly vote of October 12, 2006,
RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said, `Today’s approval of the
bill by the French National Assembly is a natural continuation of
France’s principled and consistent defense of human and historic
rights and values.
This decision is also a natural reaction to the intensive, aggressive
and official denialism of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish state.
They have undertaken a premeditated, planned assault on the truth.
To adopt such a decision is the French Parliament’s sovereign right
and is understandable. What we don’t understand is the Turkish
government’s instigation of extremist public reactions, especially
while Turkey itself has a law that does exactly the same thing and
punishes those who even use the term genocide or venture to discuss
those events.’
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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