PRESIDENT HOPES FRENCH GENOCIDE LAW NOT TO TAKE EFFECT
News.Az
Mon 06 February 2012 14:09 GMT | 14:09 Local Time
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has met a delegation of French
senators, led by Nathalie Goulet, head of the France-Azerbaijan
working group.
The head of state thanked Goulet and the other senators for what he
described as their fair position during the French Senate’s discussion
of a draft law criminalizing the denial of Armenian claims of genocide,
APA reports.
The president described the law as an initiative that distorts
history, runs counter to democracy and freedom of speech and is based
on false and faked reports. He expressed the hope that it would not
come into effect.
A group of 72 French senators at the end of January asked the country’s
Constitutional Council to block the new law.
Goulet said that she and the other senators would do their best to
develop relations with Azerbaijan during their visit.
The visiting delegation includes another five – Sylvie Goy-Chavent,
Jean-Marie Bockel, Herve Maurey, Andre Reichardt and Jeanny Lorgeoux.