09.11.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "France hopes to maintain and develop close co-operation with Turkey in all areas," a statement issued jointly by both President Jacques Chirac and the Socialist-led government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin reads.

09.11.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Spokesman of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Huseyin Dirioz issued a special statement regarding the fact of recognition of the Armenian genocide of 1915 by the French Senate. In his statement the Spokesman Dirioz accused Armenian President Robert Kocharian "of orchestrating a campaign to win recognition for a genocide in foreign capitals."

09.11.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Ankara sharply reacts on yesterday's decision of the French Senate to approve the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
A special statement by the Foreign Ministry of Turkey reads that Ankara
"rejects and finds totally unacceptable this "most unfortunate" and "wrong decision."