Guests of Honor Included Armenian Prelate of Syria and Charles Aznavour PARIS,France (A.
W.)— French President Francois Hollande attended an annual dinner with the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF) for the final time as President of France on Feb. 9. Hollande with Armenian guests of honor (Photo: Press Office of the French President) During the dinner—which was also attended by the Armenian Prelate of Syria Archbishop Shahan Sarkisian and world famous French-Armenian crooner Charles Aznavour—President Hollande addressed several issues, including the decision of the Constitutional Court to revoke certain amendments concerning the criminalization of genocide denial, or French-Armenian relations,the issue of Nagorno Karabagh (NKR/Artsakh), and genocide recognition. “To deny the massacres of yesterday is to authorize the massacres of today, and ” Hollande said. “I welcome the quality of the work of Jean-Paul Costa,which was the basis for an amendment during the debate on the Equality and Citizenship Act,” said Hollande, and reported France’s Nouvelles d’Armenie. He then detailed plans launched final October by French Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem to perceive for measures to institute a day of national commemoration of all genocides,war crimes, and thus the Armenian Genocide.” Speaking approximately Armenian Genocide recognition, and the French President said [...]
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