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YEREVAN, JULY 13, ARMENPRESS. Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Lt. General Onik Gasparyan has held a meeting with Ambassador of Russia to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin and military attaché Colonel Andrey Grishchuk, the Defense Ministry said in a news release.
“During the meeting the issues related to the Armenia-Russia bilateral cooperation in the defense area were touched upon, future plans on military and military-technical cooperation and other issues on development were discussed”, the statement says.
The meeting comes amid heightened tensions at the Armenia-Azerbaijan border after Azerbaijan attacked an Armenian military base, using high caliber mortars and artillery.
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan