Russia says supports Armenia in ensuring regional securityJune 17, 2022 - 12:46 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev has said that Armenia is Russia's strategic partner and that Moscow supports Armenia in ensuring regional security. Patrushev made the remarks at a meeting with his Armenian counterpart Armen Grigoryan in Yerevan on Thursday, June 16. Grigoryan expressed confidence that there are all the necessary opportunities and preconditions to expand the scope of cooperation between the offices of the Security Council of the two countries. The two then weighed in on a wide range of security issues within bilateral cooperation. Grigoryan briefed his Russian counterpart on the regional security situation, the Armenian-Azerbaijani border situation, the work of the demarcation and border security commissions, as well as the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. The meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO member states has kicked off in Yerevan. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |