On 23 November, the session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, with the participation of the secretaries of the national security councils of the CSTO member states, the ministers of foreign affairs and defense, was held in Yerevan,.

Aram Torosyan, Press Secretary of the RA Ministry of Defense, reports that immediately after the session, the Defense Ministers of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation had a short private conversation. Suren Papikyan and Sergei  Shoigu exchanged views on a number of issues of bilateral interest as well as defense cooperation.