ArmInfo.Defense Ministers of Armenia and Russia Suren Papikyan and Sergei Shoigu held talks within the framework of the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
" We have many issues to discuss together, there are traditional issues related to our military-technical and military cooperation. And, of course, issues related to the activities of our peacekeeping contingent, which performs tasks in Nagorno-Karabakh. We remain as confident as you that the main stabilizing factor is the ceasefire along the entire Line of Contact," the head of the Russian military department said during the talks.
Shoigu also thanked his Armenian counterpart for the opportunity to take part in the opening of the International Army Games and the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum, as well as in the work at the Moscow Conference on International Security.
In turn, Papikyan noted that today's meeting is already the second since the beginning of the year, which shows the high level of bilateral Armenian-Russian allied cooperation. "This meeting is very important for us. We highly appreciate the achieved level of the Armenian-Russian cooperation, as well as the role of the Russian presence in the South Caucasus," the head of the Armenian defense department said.