Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Armenian Defence Minister Suren Papikyan discussed prospects for bilateral cooperation in the military sphere in Moscow on Friday.
"Before we begin our main agenda on various issues of our military and military-technical cooperation and our joint work, I would like to thank you for your prompt and very important work during the aggravation of the situation in Kazakhstan, when you, as the chairman of the CSTO in our part of the Council of Defence Ministers of the CSTO member states, made difficult, but very prompt, important and necessary decisions that allowed quite energetically and very effectively to help our Kazakh colleagues resolve this situation," Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
Also during the meeting, Sergei Shoigu welcomed Suren Papikyan, noting that this is his first visit to the Russian capital as the Minister of Defence of Armenia.
"I can assure you that I will do everything possible to further increase the Armenian-Russian defence cooperation," Papikyan stressed in his welcoming speech.
At the same time, the head of the Armenian military department noted that currently "there is no general reduction in tension, and every time we have to face new challenges and threats."
"It is obvious that it is possible to overcome all these challenges and threats facing our states by acting exclusively together," Papikyan said.
He noted that "in this context, the meeting at the level of the heads of defence departments of the allied states is of particular importance."
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