On March 23, the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergey Shoigu.

The heads of the defence departments of the two allied countries discussed the main directions of large-scale reforms in the Armenian Armed Forces, issues related to the Armenian-Russian military cooperation, in particular, the  joint operations of joint military groups, as well as the course of the mission carried out by the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. During the telephone conversation, special reference was made to the security measures taken in Syunik.

Vagharshak Harutyunyan and Sergey Shoigu also discussed the military-political situation in the region.