President Francois Hollande has reassured France's influential Armenian community that he remains committed to enacting a new law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide, effectively refuting a statement to the contrary made by his foreign minister.
The minister, Laurent Fabius, said on Thursday that a similar law that was struck down by France's constitutional court in February is unlikely to be revived. Fabius spoke after talks in Paris with his visiting Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, which underlined a thaw in French-Turkish relations that followed Hollande's victory in recent presidential elections.
Hollande's center-right predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, initiated the law's passage by the French parliament in an apparent effort to win ethnic Armenian votes in the April-May elections. Turkey responded furiously, recalling its ambassador from Paris and imposing sanctions on France.
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