YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. The Parliament of Greece today holds a discussion on the issue of postponing the discussion and voting on the bill on criminalization of the Genocide denial to the autumn session. In a conversation with “Armenpress”, the Editor-in-Chief of “Free Day” (“Azat Or”) periodical Hripsime Harutyunyan stated that the discussions have already begun in the parliament and probably the discussion of the bill will be postponed by October.

Among other things, the Editor-in-Chief of “Free Day” (“Azat Or”) periodical Hripsime Harutyunyan underscored: “Generally, the standpoint and attitude towards the bill is very positive. Notwithstanding, there are some issues, which caused different opinions of the  parliamentarians and that is the reason why the Government wants to eliminate the obstacles present in the document and for that reason they applied to the Parliament to postpone the discussion by the autumn session.”

Previously it was reported that the Parliament of Greece has postponed the issue of discussion of the bill on criminalization of the Armenian Genocide denial. Upon the initiative of the Justice Minister of Greece Haralambos Athanassiou, the discussion of the bill was excluded from this week’s agenda of the parliament. It was stated that there are some technical problems and only after fixing them it will be possible to introduce the bill to the parliamentarians.

In a conversation with “Armenpress”, the Editor-in-Chief of “Free Day” (“Azat Or”) periodical Hripsime Harutyunyan stated that probably the bill will be introduced for the discussion next week. But by that time, it is considered that the Greek Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister will have a meeting and will hold a discussion dedicated to the bill.