PRESIDENT SARKOZY TRIES TO RESTORE RELATIONS WITH FRENCH ARMENIANS – TURKISH DAILY
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Sept 30 2011
Armenia
ISTANBUL. – With his upcoming visit to Armenia and attendance
to the concert in Paris devoted to 20th anniversary of Armenia’s
independence, French President Nicolas Sarkozy went on the attack in
order to restore his deteriorated relations with French Armenians,
Turkey’s Hurriyet daily writes.
Sarkozy had obstructed the French Senate from passing a bill on
holding to criminal account those who deny the Armenian Genocide,
and, subsequently, relations with French Armenians worsened, the
Turkish daily notes.
“Sarkozy went on the attack to restore relations with the [Armenian]
Diaspora, but, at the same time, without spoiling relations with
Turkey. In the Paris concert, devoted to 20th anniversary of Armenia’s
independence and with performance by Charles Aznavour, Sarkozy sat
beside Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan,” Hurriyet writes, reminding
that the approximately 500-thousand-strong Armenian Diaspora living in
France had stated that it will support socialist Francois Hollande’s
nomination in the presidential elections.
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