Prime Minister Pashinyan's appeal to the Russian President to start immediate consultations, and the response of the Russian Foreign Ministry should be considered as the beginning of an important process. Ruben Rubinyan, chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly of Armenia, on Saturday noted this on Facebook.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had petitioned to Russian President Vladimir Putin to start immediate consultations to determine the type and amount of assistance that Russia can provide to Armenia for ensuring its security, and on the basis of the Armenia-Russia allied relations and Article 2 of the August 29, 1997 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the two countries.

Later, the Russian Foreign Ministry had responded to Pashinyan’s petition, noting that Russia will provide all necessary assistance to Yerevan if the current hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict zone moved into the territory of Armenia.