Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's recent statements on the Armenian Genocide echo Turkish denialist narratives. This is according to a statement released by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention.

"His senseless statements ignore the decades of historical research on the Armenian Genocide conducted by Turkish, German, British, American, and Armenian scholars, among others, stand in the way of the ongoing struggle for justice for the victims of the Armenian Genocide, and create a dangerous geopolitical dynamic, especially in the context of Azerbaijan's recent genocide of Artsakh Armenians and its ongoing threats to the Republic of Armenia.
We hope that the Armenian Prime Minister will clarify his statements on the genocide and work to prevent any future familiarity between his statements and those of Armenian Genocide deniers. We will continue to advocate for Armenia’s right to sovereignty and especially for greater international defense of Armenia’s borders," says the statement. 
During a meeting with the Armenian community of Switzerland on January 24 in Zurich, Pashinyan said that “we must go back to the history of the Armenian Genocide, understand what happened and why, how we perceived it, through whom we perceived it”.