France will never question fact of Armenian Genocide February 17, 2012 - 16:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - France will keep filing pressure on Turkey, until the latter becomes the country official Paris would like it to be, member of Armenian National Assembly and the ARF Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary group quoted France’s top officials as saying. According to Ara Nranyan, democratization policy will be implemented towards Turkey. From Feb 5-11, the Armenian MP participated in a forum held in Paris, Strasburg and Berlin. The latter brought together 6 member-countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP), with Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine represented by MPs from opposition parties, and Azerbaijan, Moldova and Belarus - by NGO representatives. In this context, Mr. Nranyan added that the issue of the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial was raised during a meeting with French Constitutional Council member. “It was requested to wait until the end of February when the issue is resolved,” the MP said. Mr. Nranyan further briefed on the address of the Azerbaijan’s representative in charge of the Eastern partnership program. “Azerbaijan and Turkey mustn’t make the Armenian Genocide issue a subject of a conflict. The document bears solely a legal character. France will never question the fact of the Genocide itself. In this context, France’s position remains unchanged and neither Azerbaijan, nor Turkey should have any hopes that the EU will make concessions,” the French official said in response to the Azerbaijan’s representative. Top stories The Armenian Defense Ministry has denied Azerbaijan's accusations of violating the ceasefire. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took to social media to thank his Lithuanian counterpart for the contribution. President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. Partner news | POLITICO: Baku lobbying agains detained Karabakh ex-leader abroad Azerbaijan is lobbying agains former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan, according to POLITICO. Armenia named European U18 chess vice-champion The U18 chess team of Armenia won the title of vice-champion of the European Team Championship. Iran says change in presidency won’t affect ties with Armenia Ambassador Mehdi Sobhani made the remarks when speaking to reporters at the Iranian Embassy. Congress draft bill condemns Azerbaijan for Karabakh ethnic cleansing The bill condemns Azerbaijan for perpetrating ethnic cleansing against the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. |