At the second Russia-Central Asia summit, the Russian President announced that such programs include monitoring the state of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya basins, introducing water conservation and reuse technologies, as well as systematic planting of seedlings in the Aral Sea region and on the dried-up borders of the Aral Sea.

The US State Department reached an agreement with the Kazakh government on joint exploration of lithium and other rare metals in the east of the republic.