MOSCOW. March 7 (Interfax) - Russia and Armenia enjoy allied relations and should develop security cooperation, as Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev reaffirmed at a meeting in Yerevan on Monday.
"The Armenian president and the Russian Security Council secretary stressed the importance of cooperation in the security field. They discussed aspects of international and regional security and other problems of mutual interest at their meeting," Yevgeny Anoshin, a Russian Security Council spokesman, told Interfax.
"Serzh Sargsyan and Nikolai Patrushev stated that the strategic allied interstate relationship based on firm friendship between the Armenian and Russian peoples has been developing dynamically. The cooperation agenda of both bilateral and multilateral Russian-Armenian relations has been expanding from year to year," Anoshin said.