Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed a law ratifying the Treaty of Eternal Good-Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation between the five Central Asian countries and China, the “Neutral Turkmenistan” newspaper reported.

"To ratify the Treaty of Eternal Good-Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the People's Republic of China," the statement reads.

The agreement was signed on June 17, 2025, in Astana.