Lt. Gen. Movses Hakobyan, the chief of the Armenian Armed Forces General Staff, met on October 6 with Col. Gen. Anatoly Sidorov, the chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.

The parties discussed the joint military exercises Search -2017 conducted in the Republic of Armenia from 5 to 13 October as well as a wide scope of issues related to organization of joint exercises Interaction -2017 to be carried out by the Armenian-Russian Joint Troops and the joint CSTO Collective Rapid Response Forces.