FRENCH SENATE TO SUBMIT SO-CALLED “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” ISSUE FOR DISCUSSION

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Dec 20 2011
Azerbaijan

The French Senate will submit the so-called “Armenian genocide”
for discussion on Thursday, CNN Turk TV channel reported.

A member of the French president’s party, the Union for a Popular
Movement (UMP) which has the parliamentary majority, presented a
bill earlier this month aimed at introducing criminal punishment to
the legislative committee of the National Assembly for denial of the
so-called ‘Armenian genocide’.

The bill which was signed by 40 members of the UMP party and the New
Centre party, provides up to one year’s imprisonment and a fine of
45,000 euros for those who deny the so-called ‘Armenian genocide’.

The Armenians and the Armenian lobby claim that the predecessor of
Turkey – Ottoman Empire has carried out ‘genocide’ against Armenians
living in Anatolia in 1915 and achieved recognition of these events
as genocide in the parliaments of several countries.