Ex - President of France Nicolas Sarkozy created the appropriate conditions for the adoption of the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide, the incumbent president Francois Hollande must just fulfill his electoral promise and pass the bill. French Union for Popular Movement (UMP) MP Valerie Boyer, the author of the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide, made such statement in an interview with the Armenian Public Television.
She said that Francois Hollande during the election campaign promised to adopt the bill, but today he is waging a different policy towards Turkey. "We will wait and see if the President will fulfill his campaign promise. The centennial of the Armenian genocide is coming soon, and we should bring the case to the very end. Political forces in France should support this initiative," Boyer said. Turkey with his hatred and aggressive policy contributed to putting the Armenian cause on the European agenda.
In Turkey they have understood now that there are people in France who are not afraid of them, the MP said. She recalled that after the Senate passed her bill, she began to receive threats from Turks and had to apply to the law-enforcement agencies to protect her family.
Valerie Boyer reiterated that she is going to put the bill on agenda of the Senate and is currently lobbying for recognition of the Armenian Genocide by other European countries. As regards allegations against ex-president Sarkozy saying that he could sign the Senate Resolution criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide yet before it was vetoed by the Constitutional Court, Boyer said that Sarkozy could not sign the document before the verdict of the Constitutional Court as it would be illegal. Boyer said that Sarkozy was a very brave president and contributed to adoption of the Resolution despite the protests by Turkey and a number of European countries.
Boyer is sure that if passed, the bill would soften Ankara's stance of denying the Armenian Genocide and would prevent extradition and pardon of the Azerbaijani murderer Safarov. Commenting on the reports that Hungary extradited Safarov in exchange for Azerbaijani investments in the amount of 3 bln euro, the MP said that she would not like to believe that everything can be bought for money and oil. She called inadequate France's response to Safarov case. Boyer thinks that it is time to combine efforts to stop the anti-Armenian policy of Turkey and Azerbaijan's challenges to Nagorno Karabakh, the French MP said.
French MP says it is time to combine efforts to stop anti-Armenian policy of Turkey and Azerbaijan
French MP says it is time to combine efforts to stop anti-Armenian policy of Turkey and Azerbaijan
