France’s Justice Ministry was instructed to elaborate a new text of the genocide bill taking into account the decision of Constitutional Council, AFP reports.

The Ministry will study the text and elaborate a new one in accordance with the constitutional and European standards, representative of the Ministry Bruno Badré said.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Constitutional Council of France recognized the genocide law as unconstitutional, as it violates freedom of speech and expression.

The bill on criminalizing denial of genocides was accepted by the French parliament on December 22, 2011, than was turned into law on January 23, 2012, by the French Senate.