France: Rivasi and Patrick Royannez way to municipal Valencia show their support for the law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide

February 2, 2014 By administrator

By: Krikor Amirzayan

Rivasi, MEP (Europe Ecologie Les Verts) and Patrick Royannez presented last Friday at the “Drum” in Valencia before more than 200 people, the list of the 47 running mates “Succeeding together Valence” group for municipal Valencia. Rivasi and Patrick Royannez also gave the first 14 proposals-90 – 2014.

Patrick Royannez face the public has also expressed its commitment to the recognition of the Armenian genocide and the law penalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide in particular with the Collective Memory and Future. Also recall that Rivasi as MP has always supported the law on genocide by France in 2001. As an MEP she also supported the actions of the Armenian community for the criminalization of denial of the Armenian genocide. In October 2010 she went to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh and gave an interview to Armenian News Magazine in which the MEP stated “Nagorno-Karabakh is in danger.”

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