At a joint press conference yesterday in Paris, the foreign ministers of Turkey and France said they were entering into a new stage in their relationship.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said his government would not resurrect a bill criminalizing the denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide that had been approved by both houses of the French Parliament.

It was rejected by France’s Constitutional Court earlier this year on grounds that it violated freedom of expression.

Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters that his country had removed all economic and diplomatic measures that Ankara had taken in response.

France’s center-right UMP party had launched the bill last year. The party is now in the opposition.