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Baku comments on French parliamentâ€™s draft law on fictitious â€œArmenian genocideâ€

21 December 2011 07:56 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Parvin Abbasov â€“ APA. â€œWe see the French parliamentâ€™s discussions of the draft law on â€œArmenian genocideâ€ from the two angles of aspectâ€, Chief of Public Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov told journalists, APA reports.

Hasanov said Armenians were insistently trying to force the countries and peoples to accept this fictitious and false claim, which has no real historic ground. â€œNotwithstanding what country or parliament discusses it, we consider that â€œArmenian genocideâ€ is a false claim. There was no such event in the history. This is an anti-Turk policy based on Armenian lying and supported by some interested circles. Other issue is the politicizing of such kind of events. The discussion of this issue at the French parliament is the politicizing of the event, which took place or didnâ€™t take place in the history â€“ the event related to the history, bringing it to the political agenda. We consider that these issues must be investigated and discussed by the historians. These issues should be put on agenda only for renewal of the history in the memory of the people. Therefore we are negatively approaching this issue from both angles of aspectâ€.

Hasanov said adoption of such law in France could effect the France-Turkey relations: â€œWe are at war with Armenia for several years. Armenia occupied the Azerbaijani lands. Armenian leaders have responsibility for horrible crimes like Khojaly. They directly participated in these events. Azerbaijan unambiguously condemns such issues raised by them and supported by someone in the world. We are previously making statements that such events will not give positive coloring to the inter-state relationsâ€.