Agreement on friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan.

The Parties shall extend cooperation in the fuel and energy sector, in particular,processing, transportation and trade of hydrocarbons and rational use of pipelines (art. 12). The Parties shall cooperate in the peaceful exploration of outer space and shall sign a separate Agreement in the aforesaid sphere (art. 13). The Parties shall promote cooperation in the sphere of ecological safety, environmental protection, and prevention of transboundary pollution, rational use of natural resources, prevention and the mitigation of consequences of environmental and technological disasters. The Parties shall strive for the creation of a universal system of ecological safety. The Parties shall cooperate for the purpose of creating favourable conditions for the exploration of hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian Sea, and the protection, conservation and restoration of the ecological system thereof (art. 15).