BAGIS WARNS FRANCE REGARDING HISTORICAL FACTS

Paying a visit to France, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis demanded not to take into agenda of the senate “The law proposal for the punishment of denial of so called Armenian genocide” from the authorities. 

Bagis met with the diplomacy counselor of President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, Ambassador Jean-David Levitte.

Bagis expressed the disturbance of Turkey owing to the bringing the law proposal on 1915 incidents to the agenda of the senate by the socialist senators which was accepted at the parliament before.  Bagis warned that the passing of this law proposal in the senate could deeply disturbed the Turkey and France relationship.

The diplomacy counsellor of the President, Levitte emphasized Sarkozy’s explicit attitude regarding the subject and reminded that the President was against the passing of the law in the senate as Sarkozy himself had already told Turkish authorities.

In his speech at the conference that took place in the senate house with the participation of the Foreign Relations and EU Commissions of the French National Assembly and the French Senate and the members of the Turk-French friendship group, Bagis warned that passing of the law proposal in the senate would have a deep and permanent effect in Turkey- France relationships and said “politicians can’t assume the role of historians.”

Bagis also met with the Turkish citizens in the consulate in Paris and called the Turks in France to use every means available to prevent the passing of the law proposal for the “punishment of denial of so-called Armenian genocide” in the senate.

In the statement he made after the talks made as part of his France programme, Bagis expressed that the current government was strictly opposing to the law proposal.

Source: AA