Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will travel to Paris at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron on September 14.
France’s constitutional court has struck down a new bill criminalizing the denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and other crimes against humanity recognized by the French state.
Bako Sahakian, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh, believes it will take a “reasonable” compromise to settle the long-running Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over the status of the region now controlled by ethnic Armenians.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reaffirmed his pledge to draft a new bill making it a crime to deny that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey constituted genocide.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy accentuated his country’s “exclusive friendship” with Armenia as he hosted his visiting Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian, on Wednesday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged more intensive efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and a quick implementation of the Turkish-Armenian normalization agreements during talks with his visiting Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian, on Wednesday.