During his visit to Ashgabat on 18 October, Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed the following documents with his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, as reported by Uzbek TV the same day:

"An interstate agreement on further strengthening friendly relations and comprehensive cooperation;

An interstate agreement on economic cooperation for 2012 and a programme for this;

A joint Uzbek-Turkmen communique."