Speaking during a display of Russian naval power on the Neva River in St Petersburg, President Putin hailed the vital role of the Russian Navy in guaranteeing strategic parity
Earlier Robert Kocharian, who was Armenian head of state from 1998-2008, was charged in connection with the crackdown on opposition protests following the disputed presidential election in 2008, which left several people dead.
Turkish president, Recip Tayip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin held a 75 minute meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday, on the margins of the summit of the BRICS nations.
The charges are related to incidents in 2008 when government forces violently broke up mass protests against election fraud following presidential elections which saw a victory for Serzh Sargsyan.
Turkey has aspirations to become one of the world's ten largest economies, and the country has been pursuing an assertive foreign policy, challenging the domination of the UN by the five permanent members of the security council, and expanding its diplomatic footprint in Africa.
"It isn't important how this conflict originated. What matters is the loss of human lives, young human lives, that are the cost of this conflict", Anna Hakobyan said at a meeting in Moscow
According to Lavrov, BRICS attracts partners by its openness to constructive cooperation and "the impeccable respect for the United Nations Charter and basic principles of international law, including sovereign equality of States, commitment to the UN central role and indivisibility of security."
Turkey under President Erdogan aspires to be one of the top ten economies in the world, and this first high level participation of Turkey at a BRICS summit is unlikely to be the last.