France never to adopt poisonous Armenian "genocide" bill- official

The French Senate will never adopt the bill aiming to criminalize the denial of the Armenian claims of "genocide", a prominent leader in the Senate told the Turkish Daily News (TDN) on Thursday. (UPDATED)
In 2006 the French National Assembly adopted the bill criminalizing the denial of the 1915 incidents as "genocide".
The bill was blocked by the Senate, but the vote in the lower house of the parliament dealt a blow to bilateral relations between
"The issue is over. It is impossible for the Senate to adopt this law," said Hubert Haenel, president of the Senate's Commission for European Union Affairs.
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He said the atmosphere between the two countries had changed, implying also that there was a different conjecture that would also make it difficult for the Senate to make a decision that would damage bilateral relations.
In 2005, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan took a first step towards resolving the issue by proposing a joint commission of historians launch an investigation and publish their conclusions, but the proposal was rejected by
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