At the initiative of the Russian party, Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan held phone talks with Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, who congratulated Mirzoyan on his birthday and condemned the attack against him.

The interlocutors attached importance to the adoption of the trilateral statement brokered by President Putin and related to the cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh and emphasized that tens of thousands of lives were saved through the adoption of this statement.