Liberals at European Parliament criticize French Senate for Armenian bill

BRUSSELS (A.A) - The Liberals at the European Parliament reacted against an Armenian bill that was adopted by the French Senate on Monday. The Liberals's Turkey Rapporteur Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, in a written statement released Tuesday, said that the bill added a burden to already difficult Turkey-EU relations. British Liberal and a member of the Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, Andrew Duff, said that "the definition of a genocide is the duty of the judiciary. This issue can not be brought down to the level of party politics". An Armenian bill adopted at the French Senate on Monday would criminalize the denial of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915 in France with a prison term of one year and a monetary fine of 45,000 euros.