France says genocide bill to become law in two week
A French law making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago will come into effect within the next fortnight, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said on Tuesday. Lawmakers in the upper house of parliament (Senate) voted in favour of the draft bill outlawing genocide on Monday, after heated debate, prompting angry relatiation from Turkey which threatened to cut diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Sarkozy now has to ratify the law before it can come into force. "The President of the Republic will promulgate the law withing the usual timeframe, that is two weeks," a source at the presidential office told Reuters. (Reuters)
