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    FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PLEDGES TO RESUME GENOCIDE BILL ADOPTION PROCESS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    February 29, 2012 - 14:56 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - French presidential candidate Francois Hollande
    representing the Socialist party promised to resume the process of
    adopting the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial in case
    he is elected.

    French TF1 TV channel quotes him as saying that the timing for adopting
    the bill was not appropriate, and it shouldn't have been submitted
    towards the end of presidency term.

    "However, this process needs to be resumed, and I undertake the
    commitment to complete the issue," French deputy stated.

    For his part, Claude Goasguen, representative of the ruling Union
    for a Popular Movement, chairman of France-Israel friendship group
    expressed regret for the Constitutional Council's decision saying
    that the bill on Holocaust may also be "attacked", and anything can
    be said in future in terms of denial.

    On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
    Armenian Genocide denial with 127 votes for and 86 against. If signed
    into law by the President, the bill would impose a 45,000 euro fine
    and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime
    against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.

    Turkey reacted furiously when the Senate approved the law. Ankara
    halted political and military cooperation with France and was
    threatening to cut off economic and cultural ties if the law took
    effect.

    On February 28, the French Constitutional Council ruled the bill as
    unconstitutional. The Council justified it by the fact that the law
    "contradicts Article 33 of the Constitution of France and the freedom
    of speech".




    From: A. Papazian
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