PanARMENIAN.Net
Turkish Foreign Minister warns "France is following wrong path"
27.01.2007 15:29 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Meeting with his French counterpart in Paris on
Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul expressed criticisms
and concerns about the French Parliament’s passage of a bill last
October to penalize people who question the Armenian Genocide
claims. "France is following the wrong path in relations with Turkey,"
Gul told French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy on the sidelines of the
International Donors Conference held in Paris. "The French
Parliament’s passage of the Armenian bill was in nobody’s interest,"
he said. Underlining the damage done to relations between Ankara and
Paris by the passage of the Armenian bill, Gul said, "Relations with
France could have been better." The New Anatolian reports.
On October of 2006 the French Parliament adopted a law on criminal
responsibility for denying the Armenian Genocide, which foresee 45 000
euros fine. The law must be approved by the Senate and the president
of the country.