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    SLOVAKIA'S ARMENIANS DEMAND PROSECUTION OF ENVOY TO RUSSIA

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    October 1, 2012 - 18:02 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Slovakia's Armenian community representatives
    addressed the public prosecutor's office with a statement urging for
    instigation of a criminal case against Slovakia's ambassador to Russia,
    Armenia and Azerbaijan and Slovakia's former parliamentary speaker
    Josef Migash. The embassy's statement addressed to Azerbaijani media,
    claiming that Slovakia lacked a law criminalizing Armenian Genocide
    denial served a reason for the step.

    "Slovakia's ambassador to Moscow Josef Migash confirmed the information
    during his official meeting with Armenia's envoy to Russia Oleg
    Yesayan," president of the Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe
    (FAAE) Ashot Grigoryan's statement to Slovakia's prosecutor's office
    reads.

    According to Mr. Grigoryan, Armenian Genocide denial is criminalized
    in Slovakia under paragraph 424a of the Penal Code, with Slovakia's
    Supreme Court Chairman Štefan Harabin confirming his point.

    Slovakia's embassy in Moscow declined to comment on the measures
    taken by FAAE head.

    "The embassy bases its stance on state institutions' official
    standpoint," representative of an embassy in Russia Martin Kacho said.

    In November, 2011, Armenian media released publications on the
    Slovakian law penalizing Armenian Genocide denial, citing Slovakia's
    Supreme Council chairman Stefan Harabin's statement. In response to
    the outlets, Azerbaijan published the statement of Slovakia's embassy
    in Russia, denying the existence of such a law.

    "Under the paragraph 424a of Slovakia's Penal Code, denial of the
    Armenian Genocide is criminalized along with the Holocaust negating
    expressions," Mr. Harabin told a SITA. Agency, noting Slovakia as
    the only country in the EU to criminalize denial of Armenian Genocide.

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