The voting of January 23 was the epilogue of the Armenians’ long struggle against denying the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Nikolas Sarkozy decided upon the law criminalizing denial of Armenian Genocide during his visit to Armenia in October 2011, the French journal L`Express informs.

Under the impressions of his official visit to Armenia in October 2011, Nikolas Sarkozy made a final decision about the law criminalizing denial of Armenian Genocide, a government member told. More accurately, the president came upon the decision after visiting the Memorial in Yerevan dedicated to the memory of the 1915 Genocide victims. The members of the Armenian Associations in France, who were represented in his delegation, asked the president to do what he intended to.

“If Turkey does not acknowledge his responsibility until the end of this year, France will adopt a law,” Sarkozy had warned.