YEREVAN. – On Wednesday evening, acting Minister of Defense of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan had a telephone conversation with  Minister of Defense of Russia Sergey Shoygu, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Harutyunyan presented the situation on the ground as a result of provocations of the Azerbaijani armed forces, and the respective actions of the Armenian side. Both sides stressed the need for a peaceful settlement to this issue.

At the same time, the acting Minister of Defense of Armenia stressed that encroachments on the sovereign territories of Armenia are absolutely unacceptable, and the Azerbaijani military there is obligated to return to its own positions.

Vagharshak Harutyunyan and Sergey Shoygu discussed also the process of the Russian peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), and regional security issues.