After solemn welcome ceremony held in the Akorda Palace, the heads of the two states had face-to-face and enlarged negotiations and discussed the status and prospects of bilateral relations and also issues of international and regional policies of mutual interest.

As it was noted during the talks, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have done a lot of work on the implementation of the agreements achieved due to visit exchange between the two countries in 2006. Programmes of economic and cultural humanitarian cooperation and Plan of events are being successfully implemented, which will make the two brotherly nations even closer.

During the talks, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Islam Karimov discussed the development of trade-economic cooperation between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan underscored its positive trend. Last year, the volume of bilateral commodity turnover was doubled and reached US$1.4 billion.

The sides discussed a variety of measures on further broadening trade economic ties, forming large-scale zones of free trade, opening business centers and trade representative offices in the capitals of the two states.

The sides have confirmed their mutual interest in the fastest development of a mutually acceptable mechanism of joint usage of water-energy resources of the Central Asian region and establishment a water-energy consortium of Central Asian countries, intensification of the activities of the International Fund for Aral salvation.

In the context of developing cultural humanitarian cooperation, the sides discussed issues of establishing a branch of Al Farabi’s Kazakh National University in Tashkent, creating favorable environment for studying native languages by representatives of the national Diasporas of the two countries.