US State Department: French Bill on Armenian Genocide “Senseless”
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.10.2006 13:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian
Genocide “is senseless,” US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Europe and Eurasia Daniel Fried stated at a news conference
in Brussels.
“I share the opinion that the bill does not make sense,” he said. In
Fried’s words, the US and the President Bush had made many statements
on massacre of Armenians in WWI, but did not call it a Genocide.
Daniel Fried noted Washington wishes for Turks and Armenians to
honestly consider the issue. “I am convinced that the wording similar
to that adopted by the French Parliament stimulates that process,”
the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State said, reports RFE/RL.
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