Late on May 19, Armenia’s acting Minister of Defense Vagharshak Harutyunyan had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergey Shoigu.
Vagharshak Harutyunyan presented the situation created as a result of provocations of the Azerbaijani armed forces and the actions of the Armenian side. Both sides agreed on the need for a peaceful settlement of the issue.
At the same time, the Armenian Defense Ministr stressed that the encroachments on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia are absolutely unacceptable; the Azerbaijani military is obliged to return to the starting positions.
Vagharshak Harutyunyan and Sergey Shoigu also discussed the process of the Russian peacekeeping mission in Nagorno Karabakh and a number of other issues related to regional security.
