PARLIAMENT OF FRANCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EVALUATION OF HISTORY, VICE-SPEAKER OF FRENCH SENATE

State Telegraph Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan
February 1, 2012 Wednesday

As earlier reported, the members of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP)
Youth Union sent appeals to the French Parliament and every senator.

Deputy Chairman of the French Senate Jean-Claude Carle responded to
letter of the Youth Union, YAP press service said.

In his letter, Jean Claude Carle said that he considers the French
Senate`s bill against negation of the so-called Armenian genocide
inappropriate and unnecessary: I consider the bill penalizing the
denial of genocide recognized by law inappropriate and unnecessary
because of three reasons. First, French Parliament can`t deal with the
evaluation of the history: it is a deal of commission of historians and
I consider that it would be appropriate to create an international
group of historians. Secondly, our current legislation and
constitutional basis gives an opportunity to punish the negationists.

And, thirdly, urgent questions of the French Parliament are not
adoption of memory bills.