Pashinyan says he doesn`t not deny the Armenian Genocide, but simply  calls for reflection

ArmInfo. The Armenian Genocide is an indisputable fact  that is not up for debate. Moreover, denying the Genocide in the Republic of Armenia is considered a criminal offense. This is how Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded at a press conference on January 31, when was asked  how an official of his stature in Israel would be treated if he questioned the fact of  the Holocaust.

"In general, it is surprising how anyone can be accused of denying  the Genocide, when, speaking about the phenomenon, he uses the term  "Genocide" to describe this phenomenon instead of other words," he  said.  Meanwhile, he believes, the question at hand is whether the  Genocide should prompt Armenians to reevaluate their perception of  the world. and  encouragement, or failing to  accurately assess our reactions to  these signals. This issue remains relevant today, just as it was at  the beginning of the century. Personally, I don't have an answer to  this question. I am simply stating that reflection is the right thing  to do,>  he said. 

Let us recall that earlier, the Prime Minister of Armenia, at a  meeting with representatives of the Armenian community in  Switzerland, questioned the fact of the Armenian Genocide in the  Ottoman Empire. "We must understand what happened and why it  happened. And how we perceived it, and through whom we perceived it:  how did it happen that there was no mention of the Armenian Genocide  in 1939, but it emerged in 1950? How this happened, we must  understand or choose not to understand," the Armenian Prime Minister  noted. Independent experts tend to believe that he is either unaware  that the term Genocide was coined by genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin  only in 1944, or he may be intentionally trying to create a narrative  that suggests that  " the Soviet Union artificially raised this issue  to  pressure Turkey."