Comprehensive Plan of Action for Strategic Partnership between ASEAN and the Russian Federation (-)

Key Chapter Title List

1. Political and Security Cooperation
2. Economic Cooperation
3. Socio-Cultural Cooperation
4. Cross-Pillar Cooperation
5. Implementation Mechanism
6. Political and Security Cooperation: Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime
7. Economic Cooperation: Trade and Investment
8. Economic Cooperation: Energy
9. Economic Cooperation: Industry and Minerals
10. Socio-Cultural Cooperation: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
11. Socio-Cultural Cooperation: Health and Epidemic Prevention and Response
12. 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 2019 ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference with Dialogue Partners in the "10+1" format, this plan aims to provide an action guide for mutually beneficial cooperation during the period 2021-2025, 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 Comprehensive Plan of Action for ASEAN-Russia Cooperation.

This Action Plan sets priorities and cooperative measures across four major areas: political-security, economic, socio-cultural, and cross-pillar cooperation. The political-security area focuses 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 through 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 shared support of both sides for ASEAN's central role in the evolving regional architecture.

Regarding economic cooperation, the document outlines coordination within the frameworks of multilateral organizations and explores further cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Core content includes a series of specific measures such as a 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 the people and build societal resilience through personnel training, joint research, information sharing, and platform building (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' Meetings, and the 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 assessing 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.