Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov forwarded to Gazprom the issue of possible denunciation of gas agreements with Armenia.

“Regarding the denunciation [of preferential supplies], it is necessary to ask Gazprom. I don’t know anything about the denunciation,” the Kremlin spokesman told reporters.

He noted that Armenia’s gas agreements with Gazprom are a commercial matter.

“There is a preferential price, it may be higher, it may be lower, it may be revised. And corporations can raise this issue. This is a corporate issue, it is necessary to contact Gazprom,” he explained.

The gas benefits that Armenia receives are assistance from Russia, Peskov said.

“A benefit, it’s always a benefit at someone’s expense. That is, the benefit that Armenians receive is always at someone’s expense, it’s not from heaven. This is at the expense of the Russian Federation. This is really our contribution to the development of Armenia,” he added.

“This is a fraternal country, it has been and will remain fraternal. But this is at our expense, we need to call a spade a spade: this is our help to Armenia,” stressed the press secretary of the Russian leader, quoted by TASS.

In this regard, journalists asked Peskov about future contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

“No, but they [contacts] were recently. There are no such plans yet,” he said.