Russian Armenians react to Pashinyan’s remarks during meeting with Swiss Armenian community 

 
The Union of Armenians of Russia reacted to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s remarks during a meeting with the Armenian community in Switzerland.
 
The Union noted that Pashinyan’s remarks contradict Armenia’s Constitution and Criminal Code, as well as the laws of Switzerland. The remarks distort historical facts and are another manifestation of the Armenian authorities’ malicious policy towards the Diaspora and the history of the Armenian people.
 
“The Armenian Prime Minister, who is obliged, according to the laws of his country, to seek comprehensive recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, questioned the historically proven and condemned by dozens of countries and international organizations the fact of the Armenian Genocide, calling ‘to re-examine this issue and understand what and why it happened’ and why in 1939, in his opinion, ‘the Genocide was not part of the agenda, and already in 1950 it appeared in the agenda.’
 
Pashinyan chose Switzerland as a platform to promote Turkish narratives, thus demonstrating his disrespect for a state where denial of the Armenian Genocide, like the Holocaust, is a criminal offense. 
 
It is obvious that even Pashinyan, who obtained his university degree through revolutionary blackmail after coming to power, like any Armenian schoolchild, is well aware of what happened more than a century ago in Ottoman Turkey, and now he is starting this discourse to draw the public into a shameful discussion imposed by him, which leads to the devaluation of our values and achievements and the desecration of the memory of one and a half million victims of the Armenian Genocide, who were consecrated as saints by the Armenian Apostolic Church,” the Union said in its statement. 
 
The Union noted that a special statement regarding Pashinyan’s other insulting remarks to the Diaspora will be issued later.