A French senator visiting Georgia stated that a bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide would never pass the French Parliament.

According to a December 17 APA dispatch, Senator Nathalie Goulet expressed the sentiment after visiting the Georgian region of Marneuli on Sunday.

“There is no such a bill now. The French Supreme Court doesn’t consider it right to raise this issue again. In general, you must forget this issue, because, the French parliament will never adopt the bill criminalizing the denial of the so-called “Armenian genocide,” Goulet allegedly stated.

She also noted that Armenians and Azerbaijanis live in peace in Georgia and should do the same in Karabakh.

Responding to a question on Khojaly, Goulet said that she doesn’t label what happened there genocide.

 “Of course, what happened in Khojaly is terrible. But it happened during the war. That’s why it is not called genocide. Few people were killed there. Such accident also happened in France. A French village was completely destroyed during World War II. We don’t call it genocide, either.”

Regarding the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group, Goulet told reporters in Georgia that they were insufficient and that Europe doesn’t pursue a real policy on the South Caucasus.