Armenian premier`s statement on Armenian Genocide opened Pandora`s  box - Edmon Marukyan 

ArmInfo.The statement by RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the Armenian Genocide has opened a Pandora's box. This was written on his Facebook page by the leader of the Enlightened Armenia party, Edmon Marukyan.

According to him, one of the latest examples of this is the  discussion on this topic between Azerbaijani journalist Elmar  Huseynov and Azerbaijani lobbyist Maxim Shevchenko in the latest  program aired on the YouTube channel of Vestnik Kavkaza.

Marukyan noted that in the very first minutes of the program the  phrase "the so-called Armenian Genocide" is heard, and, referring to  the statement of the Armenian leader, the speakers are trying to  support their false thesis by saying that this is a myth invented by  the Armenian people.

"There are issues, the discussion and questioning of which destroy  the essence of the problem. This simple truth is understood by  everyone, and this is why the topic of the Armenian Genocide,  established by world historiography, has never been a subject of  discussion in Armenian society, but from time to time the Armenian  authorities try to change the natural situation," the politician  noted.

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, through whom we perceived it: how did it happen that in 1939  there was no agenda for the Armenian Genocide, but in 1950 it  appeared? How this happened, we should understand or should not  understand," the Armenian Prime Minister noted.

Independent experts are inclined to believe that the Prime Minister  is apparently either unaware that the term Genocide was introduced  into circulation by genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin only in 1944, or  he is deliberately trying to create a narrative that "this issue was  artificially raised by the Soviet Union to put pressure on Turkey."