Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Sarkozy challenges Turkey to face its history

ROTFL! Il piccolo Napoleone minaccia la Turchia di varare una legge che 
dichiari un crimine negare il genocidio armeno.
 
Con perfetto stile "sionista" intende sostituire la verità che deriva 
dal confronto dialettico con la verità stabilita per legge.
 
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Sarkozy challenges Turkey to face its history
 
By Emmanuel Jarry
 
YEREVAN | Thu Oct 6, 2011 8:31pm BST
 
YEREVAN (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a brief trip to 
the Caucasus, urged Turkey on Thursday to recognise the 1915 massacre of 
Armenians as genocide, threatening to pass a law in France that would 
make denying this a crime.
 
Visiting a genocide memorial and museum in Yerevan, Armenia, with 
Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan, Sarkozy challenged Turkey -- which is 
seeking membership of the European Union -- to face up to its past.
 
"The Armenian genocide is a historical reality. Collective denial is 
even worse than individual denial," Sarkozy told reporters.
 
"Turkey, which is a great country, would honour itself to revisit its 
history like other great countries in the world have done."
 
Armenia was the first stop on a two-day trip to the region by Sarkozy, 
who is keen to raise his profile on the international stage before an 
April presidential election. He visits Azerbaijan and Georgia on Friday.
 
France is opposed to Turkey's bid for EU membership and his comments on 
the sensitive subject are likely to be viewed as unwelcome meddling by 
Ankara.
 
Turkey denies the deaths of Armenians in 1915 was genocide. It says both 
Christian Armenians and Muslim Turks died in large numbers as the 
Ottoman empire collapsed.
 
Sarkozy suggested that the French parliament might consider a law making 
denial of the deaths of Armenians as genocide a crime, similar to the 
French law against Holocaust denial.
 
FROZEN CONFLICT
 
While in the region, Sarkozy will try to encourage Sarksyan and the 
president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, to resolve a conflict over 
Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly Armenian-populated enclave in Azerbaijan.
 
France plays a leading role in the Minsk Group of countries from the 
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which is 
trying to resolve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
 
Armenian-backed forces wrested Nagorno-Karabakh from Azeri control after 
the Soviet Union collapsed. When the conflict ended in a cease-fire in 
1994, 30,000 people had been killed and about 1 million had been driven 
from their homes.
 
During a three-hour visit to Georgia, Sarkozy will also urge Georgia to 
improve relations with Russia, reviving memories of his mediating role 
when the two countries went to war in 2008.
 
Sarkozy's success in brokering a cease-fire in that conflict guarantees 
a warm welcome in the capital Tbilisi, where he will meet President 
Mikheil Saakashvili and address a crowd in the central Freedom Square.
 
Sarkozy will urge Saakashvili to look beyond the countries' differences, 
including over how they interpret the cease-fire terms, and rebuild 
trust in relations with Moscow.
 
Each side accuses the other of acting provocatively and sabotaging 
relations. Moscow has angered Tbilisi and the West by recognising 
Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions as independent 
states.
 
In Moscow on Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Abkhazia's 
new president and signed legislation ratifying treaties that enable 
Russia to operate military bases in the two separatist regions for at 
least 49 years.
 
It was not clear whether Sarkozy would discuss Russia's bid to join the 
World Trade Organisation which Georgia, as a member, could block. Moscow 
hopes to complete its entry to the 153-member trading body this year.
 
HOPING TO BOOST RATINGS
 
Sarkozy mediated the 2008 cease-fire on behalf of the European Union as 
France held the bloc's presidency at the time.
 
That ended the war over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but Georgia says 
Russia has violated the terms by not withdrawing troops to the positions 
they held before the war.
 
TV images of Sarkozy addressing jubilant crowds will do him no harm as 
he tries to improve his poor ratings before the two-round election on 
April 22 and May 6. An opinion poll on Tuesday put Socialist Francois 
Hollande well in the lead.
 
Sarkozy will also promote business during his visit to the region but 
officials gave no details of any planned contracts.
 
French oil group Total said last month it had made a major gas discovery 
at Azerbaijan's Absheron block in the Caspian Sea. French companies 
could also be in the running to help extend the Baku metro, or subway.
 
(Reporting by Margarita Antidze in Tbilisi and Emmanuel Jarry in Paris, 
Writing by Timothy Heritage and Alexandria Sage; Editing by Myra MacDonald)
 
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/uk-france-georgia-idUKTRE79566Z20111006?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
 
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 dichiari un crimine negare il genocidio armeno.
Quante brutte giornate per i pirla rossobruni...
Altri sogni che si sfarinano.
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Dead men may not talk, but they also don't lie.  [Chuck Hawks]


 
sentivo stamattina alla BBC che anche imprenditori armani stanno
lasciando il Paese.
 

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A proposito. Qualche notizia di trivellazioni turche con scorta militare?
O un nuovo, fortissimissimo, torcicollo ha colpito Erdogan?
 
 
 
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recoil is insignificant when there is a tiger on the head of your elephant

 A proposito. Qualche notizia di trivellazioni turche con scorta militare?
 
adesso non pretenderai che la stampa ne dia notizia. Sai benissimo che
i sionisti la controllano (BTW, ho rinnovato il mio abbonamento a
Repubblica, con il solito sconto - Sion. Faccio anche io tuo nome?)
 
 

 sentivo stamattina alla BBC che anche imprenditori armani
 
ROTFL

 Con perfetto stile "sionista"
 
non c'è solo la lobby sionista in Francia...
http://members.xoom.it/Voce_Armena/articoli_voce/lobby%20armena.htm
 

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Si, certo, ma l'idea di fare una legge che proibisca di discutere una 
certa verità è tipico della mentalità "sionista".
 
A proposito, sai chi c'è dietro alla proposta di "disciplinare" le 
opinioni sul web in Italia?
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Che domande, qualcuno con i tratti somatici ben riconoscibili. Sono
sempre pronti a levare a Persio ogni fonte di soddisfazione. Pure quel
certo Abramuccio, che gli porto' via la ragazza,  si metteva pure la
kippah (pero' solo ogni tanto).