MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Moscow and Ashgabad are concerned over use of IT technologies for intervention in internal affairs of nations and undermining of their sovereignty, says the joint declaration of Presidents of Russia and Turkmenistan Vladimir Putin and Serdar Berdimuhamedov, signed during the talks in Moscow Friday.
"The sides express their concern over the use of modern informational and communication technologies (ICT) for illegal and harmful purposes, including for intervention in internal affairs of states and undermining their sovereignty, and underscore the importance of further reinforcement of the bilateral cooperation in international informational security," the document says.
According to the declaration, this will be done based on the April 5, 2019 inter-governmental agreement on cooperation on international informational security, as well as by implementation of the plan of realization of the main areas of bilateral cooperation on international informational security for 2022-2025.
Russia and Turkmenistan confirmed their aim for constructive cooperation on ensuring international informational security on global and regional levels, primarily within the UN framework.
The declaration says that the sides agreed to deepen their partnership ties between interested agencies, their cooperation within international and regional organizations on countering terrorist and extremist ideology and propaganda, money laundering, funding of terrorism, including via drug income, illegal circulation of narcotic and psychoactive substances and their analogs and precursors, supplying of terror groups with weapons, and other types of organized crime, as well as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.