Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and North Korea to the State Duma for ratification, APA reports citing TASS.
The treaty, which was signed in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024, has been posted to the legislature’s database.
The treaty provides that the sides on a permanent basis maintain and develop, taking into account their national legislation and their international obligations, relations of comprehensive strategic partnership, based on the principles of mutual respect for state sovereignty and territorial inviolability, non-interference in internal affairs, equality and other principles of international law relating to friendly relations and cooperation between countries. The sides seek to establish global strategic stability and a fair multipolar international system, according to a memo to the treaty.