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    FRANCE'S HIGHEST COURT HAS DECLARED THE ARMENIA GENOCIDE BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL

    The Business Insider
    February 28, 2012 Tuesday 10:10 PM EST

    The French bill that would have criminalized the denial of the Armenian
    genocide has hit a roadblock. France's highest legal authority ruled
    that the bill was unconstitutional, Reuters reports.

    The decision by France's Constitutional Council invalidates the bill,
    which it said was against the principles of freedom of expression
    guaranteed in France's constitution. The bill was passed by both
    houses of parliament and was due to be ratified by President Nicolas
    Sarkozy at the end of the month.

    The move was welcomed by Turkey, with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
    Davutoglu saying his cabinet would meet to consider whether to restart
    economic, political and military contacts with France. "The correction
    of this grave error by the highest court in France is satisfying,"
    Davutoglu said in a statement.

    The president of the Council of Coordination of Armenian Organizations
    in France, Franck Mourad Papazian, criticized the ruling, saying it
    was the result of Turkish lobbying. "We have been totally outraged by
    the Constitutional Council's decision at its very core, which is based
    on politics rather than on legal grounds," he said, the AP reports.

    But Sarkozy has not given up. Immediately following the ruling, his
    office said he had asked the government to draft a new version of
    the law which would take the decision into account. "The President
    of the Republic considers that [genocide] denial is intolerable and
    must therefore be punished," his office said in a statement.


    From: Baghdasarian
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