Interfax - Russia & CIS Military Newswire August 3, 2018 Friday 10:01 AM MSK Russian military base in Armenia positive example of military cooperation, Yerevan says YEREVAN. Aug 3 Armenia will continue active efforts to develop the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the country's Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakyan said. At a meeting with Russian Deputy Defense Minister Col. Gen. Alexander Fomin, Mnatsakyan "particularly stressed that Armenia attaches great importance to further strengthening the CSTO and is committed to continue its active involvement to that end," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Armenia highly rates its military and military-technical cooperation with Russia, both bilaterally and in multilateral formats, the minister said. The parties discussed prospects of a deeper military cooperation. "Mnatsakyan and Fomin spoke of the effective experience of Armenian-Russian military and military-technical cooperation and the high level of compatibility between their armed forces. The Armenian foreign minister noted that the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri is a positive and important example of such cooperation," the ministry said. The pair also discussed regional and international security and the situation in Syria. Armenia is sensitive to events in that region, which directly concern Syria's ethnic Armenians and have bearing on the issue of preserving the Armenian historical and cultural legal in that country, Mnatsakyan said. kk