Comprehensive Plan of Action for Strategic Partnership between ASEAN and the Russian Federation (-)
Based on the five-year cooperation framework of the Joint Statement on the Strategic Partnership, it covers the three pillars of political security, economy, and socio-culture, as well as cross-pillar areas, aiming to enhance mutually beneficial cooperation and ASEAN centrality in the regional architecture.
Detail
Published
22/12/2025
Key Chapter Title List
- Political and Security Cooperation
- Economic Cooperation
- Socio-Cultural Cooperation
- Cross-Pillar Cooperation
- Implementation Mechanism
- Political and Security Cooperation: Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime
- Economic Cooperation: Trade and Investment
- Economic Cooperation: Energy
- Economic Cooperation: Industry and Minerals
- Socio-Cultural Cooperation: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
- Socio-Cultural Cooperation: Health and Pandemic Prevention and Response
- Socio-Cultural Cooperation: Education, Youth, and People-to-People Exchanges
Document Introduction
This document is the "Comprehensive Plan of Action (2021-2025)" formulated by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Russian Federation to implement their strategic partnership. Based on the Joint Statement of the 3rd ASEAN-Russian Federation Summit on Strategic Partnership in 2018 and the Chairman's Statement of the 10+1 Meeting between ASEAN and its Dialogue Partner in 2019, this plan aims to provide an action guide for mutually beneficial cooperation during the period from 2021 to 2025, deepening the relationship established since 1991. The plan is closely aligned with the "ASEAN Community Vision 2025" and its blueprints, and draws on the implementation outcomes of the 2016-2020 ASEAN-Russia Comprehensive Plan of Action for Cooperation.
This action plan sets priorities and cooperative measures across four major areas: political-security, economic, socio-cultural, and cross-pillar cooperation. In the political-security domain, the focus is on strengthening high-level exchanges, maintaining a regional architecture based on international law and regional norms, and deepening practical cooperation on traditional and non-traditional security issues under ASEAN-led mechanisms, including platforms such as the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus). These issues encompass maritime security, counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, and arms control and non-proliferation. The document explicitly emphasizes the mutual support for ASEAN's central role in the evolving regional architecture.
Regarding economic cooperation, the document outlines coordination within multilateral organization frameworks and explores further cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Core elements include a series of specific measures such as the revised Trade and Investment Cooperation Roadmap, Business Council dialogues, SME development, energy cooperation (including civil nuclear energy), the digital economy, connectivity (transportation, smart cities), and food and agricultural security. These measures aim to promote trade and investment, enhance supply chain resilience, and advance the achievement of sustainable development goals.
The socio-cultural cooperation section covers multiple dimensions including cultural exchanges, disaster management, environment and climate change, public health (particularly infectious disease prevention and response), education, youth, and people-to-people exchanges. The plan aims to deepen mutual understanding and connections among people and build societal resilience through personnel training, joint research, information sharing, and platform development (such as the ASEAN-Russia Think Tank Network and the ASEAN Centre at MGIMO University).
Finally, the document establishes an implementation mechanism for regularly reviewing progress through existing dialogue mechanisms (such as the ASEAN-Russia Summit, Senior Officials' Meeting, and Joint Cooperation Committee), and relies on funding sources like the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Financial Fund to ensure the implementation of various cooperative initiatives. This plan is a key policy text for analyzing the direction of ASEAN-Russia relations and regional security and economic cooperation dynamics over the next five years, providing professional researchers with official, systematic, and actionable framework information.