The Turkmen set, as the Seoul paper listed it, runs from an agreement on the promotion and protection of investment to documents on infrastructure, the chemical industry and plants, rail transport and water management, with the modernisation of the Karakum Canal named among the projects. Lee, in the paper's rendering, told his guest that the warm hand extended in a difficult moment had shown deep trust and friendship; Berdimuhamedov reaffirmed Ashgabat's support for Lee's END initiative.
Turkmenistan's state site had, by 10:15 Ashgabat time, only the departure and the honour guard at the Seoul airport; the readout of the talks is the evening's post. Ashgabat announced the trip on 12 September as a state visit and the first Central Asia-Korea summit in one line, after the Cabinet heard foreign minister Rashid Meredov's report on it by video.
No sum was attached to any of them in the Seoul paper's list.
Kazakhstan's day is the afternoon. Science minister Sayasat Nurbek told Tengrinews on Monday that two documents would be signed on Tuesday: an intergovernmental agreement to open a KAIST campus in Alatau City, with 5 mirror laboratories and a first intake next year, and an agreement between Satpayev University and Korea's rare-metals institute, KORAM, for a centre the Korean government funds with about $15 million, for the enrichment, alloying and processing of rare-earth raw material. Seoul's spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said the two presidents would raise the relationship to a future-oriented comprehensive strategic partnership.
Uzbekistan's 13 documents, exchanged on Monday, are now itemised: a memorandum between Korea's Export-Import Bank and the investment, industry and trade ministry on strategic projects; a memorandum on 8 high-speed trainsets, with a feasibility study under the Economic Development Cooperation Fund; a national genome centre; border-stage protection of intellectual property; tourism, agriculture, AI in manufacturing and medical-product regulation; a contract on defence-industry cooperation; a treaty on the transfer of sentenced persons; and a protocol amending the grant-aid framework. No sum was attached to any of them in the Seoul paper's list.
Emomali Rahmon left Dushanbe on Tuesday, his press service said through Asia-Plus at 09:35, for an official visit and the summit, with the head of his executive office and his foreign-relations aide in the delegation. The same report names industry minister Sherali Kabir as Tajikistan's man at Monday's first C5+Korea industry ministers' meeting, which Asia-Plus had reported without a name on Monday. Sadyr Japarov's visit runs from 15 to 18 September; economist.kg wrote on Monday that documents in the economic, investment and customs spheres are to be signed.
The summit sits on Wednesday under a title about innovation, prosperity and connectivity and is to end with a Seoul Declaration. Of the 5, Ashgabat is the one whose documents include an agreement on investment protection; Tashkent's include a defence contract; Astana's, by its minister's account, a campus.