On 27 May in Tashkent the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who came on a working trip to Uzbekistan as a member of a Russian delegations headed by the President of the country Vladimir Putin, signed agreements on trade-economic, scientific-technical, social and cultural-humanitarian cooperation of Tatarstan with the Government office in Jizzakh and with the Joqarǵı Keńes of the Republic of Qaraqalpaqstan.
Both documents were signed in the presence of the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Denis Manturov.