French President Francois Hollande to be consistent in passing Armenian Genocide bill - French Senators.

There are no contradictions between French political powers on criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide, French Senators said in Yerevan on Saturday adding French newly elected President Francois Hollande also will be consistent in passing the bill.

“We are members of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) supporting French former President Nikolas Sarkozy and learned with interest about Hollande’s intentions. We will be very glad if a consensus is established on the issue in France,” Senator Bernard Fournier said.

To note, French Constitutional Council banned the bill criminalizing denial of the Genocide early this year, while Sarkozy has promised to submit a new bill in case he is elected.

Also to remind, French Senators Sophie Joissains, Philippe Marini and Bernard Fournier, who are on two-days visit in Armenia, visited on Saturday the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and honored the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.

The Senators also attended the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, parliament press service informs.

“I saw sorrow, loss and massacre, which documents testify. There are people, who still deny the genocide, which brought forth the World War II,” Senator Marini wrote in the commemoration book.

Condemning the 1915 genocide organizers, the Senator claimed that French political powers both the former President Sarkozy’s and the incumbent Hollande’s supporters taking into account the Constitutional Council’s objections regarding the former bill, will submit a new bill, which will be unarguably stronger. The key objective is to punish legally those who will deny Genocide in France.