Armenian Defense Minister met with his Russian counterpart 

On February 25, Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan met with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, as part of his working visit to the Russian Federation.

During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on international and regional security issues. A number of issues related to the Armenian-Russian military cooperation in bilateral and multilateral formats were discussed.

The sides highly appreciated the dynamics of the Armenian-Russian allied cooperation and political dialogue, the role and efforts of the Russian Federation aimed at stabilizing the military-political situation in the region, as well as the effectiveness of the Russian peacekeeping mission in Artsakh.

Pashinyan met with the President of Kazakhstan the Heads of Government of the EEU countries 

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is on a working visit in Nur Sultan, met with President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

"I would like to emphasize that I am glad that the crisis management mechanisms of the Collective Security Treaty Organization have finally worked. You know that this was the priority of the presidency of the Republic of Armenia. We have always believed that the CSTO rapid crisis response mechanisms should work properly. Unfortunately, Armenia was in a situation when we thought that the mechanism should work, but, unfortunately, that did not happen. After that, we became the CSTO chairing country and announced that this is one of our priorities. I am very glad that we were able to launch that mechanism when it was necessary. I would like to thank you once again for your warm words and hospitality," Pashinyan said.

During the meeting the interlocutors discussed various issues on the agenda of the Armenian-Kazakh relations, touched upon a number of topics related to the integration processes.

Nikol Pashinyan also held a meeting with the Heads of Government of the EEU member states and the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In his speech, Prime Minister Pashinyan, in particular, noted that the President of Kazakhstan was right in noting that today's sitting coincides with the drastic aggravation of the geopolitical situation. "It is obvious that we are in a sensitive period, in sensitive geopolitical tectonic processes, and in this context, of course, the Eurasian Economic Union is an important format to develop the economies of our countries," Pashinyan said.

Armenian Prime Minister stressed that there is a potential for expansion of the Eurasian economic region. "There are observer states with which we cooperate quite effectively. There is also some interest from other countries to strengthen ties with the Eurasian Economic Union. I think this is a generally positive process, and I hope that the Eurasian Economic Union, we all will succeed in implementing a policy that in the current situation will strengthen the EEU as an economic platform, will continue to give impetus to the development of the economies of our countries," PM Pashinyan said.

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