  France’s Hollande may go back on his Genocide bill promise – expert July 9, 2012 - 15:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Recently, Ankara and Paris have been taking steps at normalizing ties which deteriorated after the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial, a political analyst said. At news conference in Yerevan, Sergey Shakaryants warned against high expectations for the issue of Genocide denial criminalization to make it to the immediate agenda of the French parliament. “Despite confirming plans for a new Genocide bill, French leader Francois Hollande can go back on his promise, seeing as the presidential race is over for him,” the expert noted. Commenting on recent visit of U.S. State Secretary to South Caucasus, the expert noted that Hillary Clinton stressed the importance of Armenia-Turkey rapprochement. In this context, the expert slammed Turkey’s using Karabakh conflict settlement as a precondition for normalizing ties with Armenia. Partner news  Top stories A special sitting of the National Assembly launched on Monday, June 17, with 104 parliamentarians participating. “I’m good at what I’m doing – implementing educational and charity projects,” he said in an interview with Ksenia Sobchak. RPA parliamentary group leader Galust Sahakyan said the latest National Assembly session featured both show and populism. The National Assembly adopted package of bills on making amendments to laws on “government structure” and “public service”.   Partner news |  Latest news Venezuelan leading university attacked, buses torches  The fire from the second vehicle burned for more than a half-hour and damaged the building, plus important works of art.LinkedIn suffers outage due to ‘DNS issue’ "We determined it was a DNS issue, we're continuing to work on it. Thanks for your patience,” the network tweeted."The Sopranos" star James Gandolfini dies at 51 "We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family," the network said.UN chief hails China's peacekeeping efforts Ban said China has provided more peacekeepers than all the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council. |
