The Treaty on Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan was signed in Ashgabat on October 2, 2017.
The Treaty determines that long-term and stable strategic partnership relations between the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan are based on the principles of mutual respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity, and non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, and with equality, mutual benefit, peaceful coexistence and reciprocal trust.
The Treaty envisages that this strategic partnership is aimed at expanding cooperation in the political, economic and humanitarian areas, and creating favourable conditions for ensuring mutual security, countering global threats and challenges and strengthening regional stability.
Under the Treaty the two sides will expand and deepen their cooperation in the struggle against terrorism and other manifestations of extremism, various forms of transnational organised crime, corruption, illegal trafficking of drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, illegal arms trafficking, as well as the smuggling of cultural item, and other manifestations of threats and challenges to security.