Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan held talks on Friday with his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu.

During the meeting, Sergey Shoygu offered to sign an intergovernmental agreement on the deployment of Russian military base points in Armenia, which implies, in particular, to deployment of a helicopter squadron of the Russian Air Forces at Armenia's Erebuni airfield.

The parties also discussed the state and prospects of bilateral military and military-technical cooperation and exchanged views on a number of security issues in the Caucasus, Russian Defense Ministry's press service reported.

They examined the areas of cooperation to maintain peace and stability in the region in the short and medium term, the report says. The Ministers noted positive dynamics in strengthening cooperation between the defense ministries of the two countries and expressed mutual interest in its further development .