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â€œ Such decisions put France’s neutrality, objectiveness and unbiased attitude under big question ,â€ MP Ganira Pashayeva

23 January 2012 20:32 (UTC +04:00)

â€œSuch steps are against values and principles of the Council of Europe and Assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of studying history, human freedom, values and principles like human rights. Letâ€™s think about possible consequences of such decisions. If the parliaments and senates of the member states of the Council of Europe start to study the history of other states for their own favors, if they adopt such decisions based on not historical facts but political interests, then imagine what can happen in Europe. As you know, Prime Minister of Turkey Rajab Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish state officials repeatedly addressed to Armenian authorities and noted: â€œWe agree open all the archives. Open your archives. Letâ€™s open all the archives in the world on this issue. Let historians of Turkey and Armenia as well as all the interested sides study the issue and we are ready to accept the results of the studies. But Armenian authority didnâ€™t accept objective historical studies. As they know very well, there was not such genocide. Around half million people of Turkish origin live in France. It means that imprisonment waits for all of them after this bill. Then, what will happen human freedom, freedom of speech?â€

MP also spoke about Franceâ€™s participation at the OSCE Minsk Group on the regulation of Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict. â€œAs a co-chair France should be neutral, objective and unbiased. But such decisions put neutrality, objectiveness and unbiased attitude of France under big question and affects heavily mediator role. I invite all my French counterparts to think all much more all these issues,â€ said Ganira Pashayeva