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Parliamentâ€™s committee chairman: â€œThe French Senate adopted a stupid and groundless decisionâ€

24 January 2012 10:56 (UTC +04:00)

The French Senate adopted this decision to achieve some small goalsâ€, said chairman of the Regional Affairs Committee of the Azerbaijani Parliament Arif Rahimzadeh commenting on the French Senateâ€™s decision to criminalize the denial of so-called â€œArmenian genocideâ€, APA reports.

Underlining the decision concerning the Holocaust, Rahimzadeh said it was a decision adopted immediately after the war and proved by the court. â€œIt is illogical to adopt such a decision concerning the non-proved claims. I remember when Armenians raised the issue of so-called genocide they claimed there were 600 victims, then 700 and later 800. Now they claimed about one million killed people. In that time, there were not so many Armenians in Turkeyâ€.

The committee chairman said this decision wouldnâ€™t honor France. â€œThe OSCE Minsk Group can not adopt an objective decision on Nagorno Karabakh conflict further. I donâ€™t believe in this groupâ€.