Repeal Of Armenian Genocide Law Result Of Turkish Lobby’s Pressure –

REPEAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAW RESULT OF TURKISH LOBBY’S PRESSURE – HAY DAT REP

Tert.am
29.02.12

Repeal of the law criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide by
the Constitutional Council of France was the result of the Turkish
lobby’s overt pressure.

“There is not any other explanation,” Hrach Varzhapetyan, Head of the
Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office in France, said in an interview with
the Yerkir Media TV channel.

The Armenian community in France will not give up. “This law is of
paramount importance for all of us. We are ready to start the process
anew,” he said. Varzhapetyan announced his intention to initiate a
process of putting another bill on the French parliament’s agenda. He
noted that President Nicolas Sarkozy remains committed to his pledges:
discontent with the Constitutional Council’s ruling he ordered a new
bill to be drafted.