29 February: There have been mixed reactions to the decision of the French Consitututional Council to annul the law passed recently by the French parliament to criminalise the denial of the characterisation of the massacre of Armenians at the end of the O

French President Sarkozy has promised to present a new law for the consideration of the French Parliament.

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