I Will Honor My Promise, Says French President

I Will Honor My Promise, Says French President

by Armenian Weekly
July 7, 2012

PARIS, France – French president François Hollande has reaffirmed his
commitment to reintroduce a draft law penalizing the denial of
genocides, following an announcement by his foreign minister that such
a law would not be resurrected.

Francois Hollande
During a phone conversation with ARF leader and CCAF co-president
Mourad Papazian, Hollande said he does not break his promises.

Earlier this week, foreign minister Laurent Fabius had dismissed the
genocide denial law during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart
Ahmet Davutoglu.

During his presidential campaign Hollande had vowed that he would
personally draft a similar law and shepherd its passage.

In April, Hollande said he would make sure that a new law is drafted
with `utmost legal security’ in order to ensure its approval by the
country’s highest court. `We can no longer commit an imprecision that
would again leave us with the impossibility of having the text
validated,’ he said.