By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, February 9 — Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan commented on remarks by his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Liberman who suggested that the term Holocaust is inapplicable in reference to any other tragedy. “We don’t accept attempts to term any other conflicts or massacres as Holocaust,” Liberman noted. According [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, February 8 — At the conference held in Brussels European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Adviser to Turkish Prime Minister on Political Issues Egemen Bagish touched upon the French bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide as well as both Turkey’s and international community’s reaction to it. Martin Schulz said [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, February 7 — Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received French parliamentary delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of France-Caucasus Friendship Group, France-Azerbaijan Working Group, member of Centrist and Republican Union at the French Senate, Senator Nathalie Goulet. Senators Sylvia Goy-Chavent, Jean-Marie Bockel, Herve Maurey, Andre Reichardt and Jeanny Lorgeoux were also included in [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, February 7 — A Swiss prosecutor has launched a probe into remarks by Turkey’s chief EU negotiator Egemen Bagis, who saidn in Davos that the Armenian Genocide doesn’t exist. “There are no Armenian Genocide. Let them arrest me,” said Bagis last week following a French reporter’s question. Zurich public prosecutor Christine [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, February 2 — US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone called Armenian and Turkish scientists upon meeting and jointly studying the events of the common history. “Right now it’s hard to say what statement President Obama will make on April 24, but as President Obama said earlier, Turkish and Armenian people must [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 24 — Following Senator Sophie Joissains’ statement on the bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial, there were several votes on the French Senate floor. The first vote was regarding the Senate legal committee’s vote last week against the measure. In this case, a NO VOTE is in SUPPORT of the [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 23 — President of French Senate Jean-Pierre Bel, who voted in favor of the Armenian Genocide bill adoption, stated that he upholds his party’s stance on the draft law criminalizing genocide denial. Jean-Pierre Bel noted that it’s not a memorial and added that he backs the bill. “Constitutional Commission of [...]
