Greece to discuss Genocide denial criminalization billMay 31, 2013 - 16:21 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A draft law envisaging criminalization and a penalty for denial and distortion of the facts of genocides was submitted to Greek parliament. The draft law was readied as a counter discrimination measure. The bill stipulates for 3-36 months’ imprisonment or a fine of 5-20 thousand euro for denial of genocides. Greek parliament recognized the genocide of Pontic Greeks, the Armenian Genocide and the Greek genocide in Asia Minor in 1994, 1996 and 1998 respectively. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |