YEREVAN. – It is relatively calm on the border of Nakhichevan; improvements are made every day, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, spokesperson for the Republic of Armenia Ministry of Defense (RA MOD), told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“Positional improvements at the borders are a constant process,” Hovhannisyan said, in particular, when asked about the situation regarding the shifts at military positions. “And if in some sense there is no interest in the press in those processes, [that] doesn’t mean [that] (…) they don’t move their positions forward.”

Reflecting on reports that Turkey plans to set up a military base in Nakhichevan, Artsrun Hovhannisyan said the Armenian domain is interested in this topic, but there is nothing specific yet.

“Since the RA Prime Minister has stated about that, naturally it’s already a plan-program,” the MOD spokesperson said with respect to an unprecedented Armenian-Russian humanitarian cooperation. “It will be a yet another mission to us.”

“The tension on the border has reduced,” Hovhannisyan said regarding the present-day situation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. “But that says nothing from the perspective of long-term predictions because you can’t make long-term predictions (…). Everything is relatively calm at this point, or a short while ago.”