MOSCOW — Moscow plans to strengthen its military cooperation with Armenia, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying on Friday.
Russia, which has a mutual defense pact with Armenia and a military base there, sent peacekeepers to secure a ceasefire in November after Azeri troops drove ethnic Armenian forces out of territory in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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