On the evening of May 19, the acting 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.

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 RA Minister of Defense stressed that the encroachments on the sovereign territories of the Republic of Armenia are absolutely unacceptable and 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.