October 13, 2006 - 18:49 AMT
Kommersant Daily: France May Be Expelled from CoE for Armenian Genocide Bill
If the bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial is finally adopted France runs a risk to receive a suit from the European Court of Human Rights, which can force Paris to cancel the disputable law, reports Kommersant daily. Besides, if the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which is empowered to consider the verdicts drawn by Strasbourg, also rates France's moves as illegal, the state may be expelled from the CoE. Anyway, the date for the next voting in the upper house of parliament has not been fixed yet and the French senators have enough time to weigh 'for' and 'against'.