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20 October 2006 - 11:47 AMT

Charles Aznavour: French Bill Had to Cover All Genocides

Famous singer Charles Aznavour considers that the French bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial had to cover all crimes of the kind but not only the one committed against Armenians, “otherwise it produces rather a strange impression.” “I am delighted that the issue was thought of but I have a reservation, since I have had an impression that the other genocides were forgotten,” he said. Aznavour also said he is very glad that Orhan Pamuk was awarded with Novel Prize. “It was Orhan Pamuk who dared to speak of the possibility of acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey,” he said, reports RFE/RL.