Armenia’s Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan on Monday hosted Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin.

During the meeting the sides highly valued the dynamics of the Armenian-Russian allied cooperation, the political dialogue, as well as the effective cooperation in the defense sphere, the Defense Ministry’s press service reported.

The minister specially highlighted the role and efforts of Russia aimed at stabilizing the military-political situation in the region and ensuring the efficiency of its peacekeeping mission in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) within the framework of the implementation of the November 10 statement signed by Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan.

The officials also attached importance to the activities of the Russian inter-departmental humanitarian response center in Nagorno-Karabakh aimed at the return of refugees, restoration of civilian infrastructure, search for those killed in action, captured and missing persons and combination of the activities of various humanitarian organizations.