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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    The history of France's recognition of the Armenian
    Genocide traces back to 1915

    It would be incorrect to explain the disposition of
    the French government regarding the Armenian Genocide
    only through the powerful Armenian Diaspora, in spite
    of the assertions of Turkish and Azeri historians.
    29.05.2008 GMT+04:00

    10 years ago, on May 29, 1998, the National Assembly
    of France passed the bill on the recognition of the
    Armenian Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire in
    1915 with the first reading. -France officially
    recognizes the Armenian Genocide of 1915,- says the
    law, signed by the President of the National Assembly
    Laurent Fabius. On November 7, 2000, a similar law was
    passed in the Senate of France. And on January, 2001,
    President of France Jacque Chirac signed a law which
    stipulated that France recognizes the Armenian
    Genocide on all official levels.

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 12, 2006, the Lower House
    of the French Parliament passed a bill, according to
    which the denial of the Armenian Genocide committed in
    the Ottoman Empire in 1915 is criminal offence. The
    document stipulates that the denial of mass killings
    of the Armenian people will be punished by one year
    imprisonment and a fine of 45.000 Euros ($ 56.4
    thousand).

    The history of France's recognition of the Armenian
    Genocide traces back to 1915, immediately after the
    slaughters had begun. On May 29, 1915 the Ambassadors
    of France, Great Britain and Russia to Constantinople
    sent a telegram to the US Department of States with
    the following content: -One month ago the Turks and
    the Kurds, living in the Western Armenia, with the
    support and cooperation of the Ottoman authorities,
    started the mass killing of the peaceful Armenian
    population of Erzrum, Van, Sasun, Bitlis, Cilicia, and
    Mush. At the very same time Armenian intellectuals
    were killed in Constantinople by the Young Turks. We
    call all the countries of the Entente to interfere and
    put an end to this brutal policy.-

    The Armenians living in Constantinople were in close
    relationship with France: many Armenian companies had
    their branches in Paris, the children of the Armenians
    studied in the University of Sorbonne, and maybe this
    was the reason why France became one of the first
    countries where the Armenian people started to move
    after having survived the Genocide. The Armenian
    Diaspora in France has more than half million and is
    very organized both in the political and social
    aspect. However it would be incorrect to explain the
    disposition of the French government regarding the
    Armenian Genocide only through the powerful Armenian
    Diaspora, in spite of the assertions of Turkish and
    Azeri historians. It is true, that Armenian Diaspora
    is very large in number, but it does not have enough
    influence to have the Parliament and President
    recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The Turkish
    Diaspora in Western Europe is the largest and the
    richest one, but it can do nothing to fight injustice.
    The Turkish Diaspora only manages the showing the
    ruined memorials and the cemeteries for the victims of
    the Armenian Genocide.

    The uncompromising attitude of France in this issue
    showed the entire world and first of all the USA and
    the Great Britain, that the policy of blackmail and
    intimidation carried out by Turkey regarding Paris
    does not work. And by the way, after having passed the
    bill about the criminal offence for denying the
    Armenian Genocide, the relations between Paris and
    Ankara even improved, in any case, regarding
    trade-economic relations.

    Meanwhile, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of
    Turkey Ali Babacan in representing Turkey in 2006
    during the negotiations in the EU announced that the
    French law violates one of the most basic principles
    of the EU, i.e. the freedom of opinion. -Leave the
    history to the historians,- he said. The whole thing
    is that the Armenian Genocide is a historical fact and
    the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in this case
    is simply taking the desired for the reality.

    By the way, the bill on the criminal offence for the
    denial of the Armenian Genocide will be passed by the
    Parliament of Slovakia by the end of 2008 and will
    come into effect in January - February 2009. -In
    Slovakia whose Parliament recognized the Armenian
    Genocide in 2004, there was a law about criminal
    liability for the denial of the Holocaust. With
    amendments we widen the frames of the law and expend
    its influence on all genocides, and in particular, on
    the Armenian Genocide,- said the Minister of Justice,
    Vice-Prime Minister of Slovakia Stephan Kharapin.
    «PanARMENIAN.Net» analytical department
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