Relationship dossier
Saudi Arabia
Turkmenistan
Relationship assessment
Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan have pursued modest cooperation, including agreements on trade, investment and cultural ties.
Saudi Arabia toward Turkmenistan
+20Saudi Arabia held high-level talks with Turkmenistan’s president during his 2016 visit and concluded bilateral agreements and memoranda concerning areas including trade, investment and cultural cooperation.
Turkmenistan toward Saudi Arabia
+20Turkmenistan’s president visited Saudi Arabia in 2016 for high-level talks, and the Turkmen government concluded bilateral agreements and memoranda concerning areas including trade, investment and cultural cooperation.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship includes concrete government engagement and agreements covering economic and cultural cooperation, but the known arrangements do not indicate a close or extensive partnership. The scope and implementation of the agreements remain unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan have pursued practical economic and diplomatic cooperation. During Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow’s 2016 visit to Saudi Arabia, the governments held high-level talks and concluded agreements and memoranda covering areas including trade, investment and cultural cooperation. The known cooperation is concrete but does not establish a particularly close or extensive partnership.
Key developments
During President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow’s visit to Saudi Arabia, the governments held high-level talks and concluded agreements and memoranda concerning areas including trade, investment and cultural cooperation.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of the agreements and memoranda concluded in 2016 are unclear.
- Details of subsequent bilateral economic projects and government cooperation are limited.