NICOLAS SARKOZY PLANS TO CIRCULATE NEW BILL PENALIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL
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May 03, 2012 | 13:38
Both French presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois
Hollande reaffirmed their commitment to introduce a new bill on
criminalization of the Armenian Genocide denial.
In their separate letters to chairman of the national council of
Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF)
Alexis Govciyan and CCAF co-chairman Ara Toranian, the candidates
promised to present a new bill in June, Nouvelles d`Arménie reports.
~SBe sure that on behalf of France I will continue the struggle to
recognize the truth and restore justice on the Armenian issue,~T
Sarkozy said in his letter.
Earlier Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande confirmed their readiness
to adopt the law criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial despite
recent decision of the Constitutional Council.
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