This treaty is a legal base of relations between ASEAN member-states. Joining the treaty, Russia assumes responsibility to abstain from any actions threatening political and economic stability of ASEAN countries.
The fact that Russia, as well as ASEAN member-states, China, India, Japan and South Korea, joined the Bali treaty adds strategic profundity to Russia's relations with Southeast Asian countries and create all the necessary conditions for the development of Russia-ASEAN relations.
However, Russia's economic ties with this perspective region fall behind the intensity of Russian-Asian political dialogue. New projects are being launched to improve this. Among them is Russian-Indonesian cooperation in the atomic energy sphere. Moreover, in the near future a Malaysian astronaut is likely to be trained in Russia.
