Pashinyan, in his first sustained public engagement with Khojaly as Prime Minister, characterised the killings as a tragedy that Armenian historiography needed to engage with honestly, while rejecting the Azerbaijani-state "genocide" framing. The AP interview is the principal documentary source for the Armenian state's 2019 position; subsequent statements have stayed within this register.

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