YEREVAN. - The bill on criminalization of denying the Armenian Genocide adopted by the French National Assembly will have a major role towards its international acknowledgement, the deputy head of Armenia’s Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov announced.

“The step was firstly made to raise our national security level. The adoption of the bill on criminalizing the Armenian Genocide was a major step towards preventing the recurrence of such events. Criminalization is an effective way to stop the aggressor,” Sharmazanov stressed.