Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev addressed the informal Organization of Turkic States summit in Turkestan, Kazakhstan, where he proposed new cooperation on artificial intelligence centers, cybersecurity, digital signatures, space, cultural heritage and Turkic terminology, while rejecting claims that the OTS was a military alliance, KazTAG reported on May 15. The same day, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan signed a TRACECA agreement in Astana, Kazakhstan, on a single electronic transit permit for road freight, intended to simplify transport along the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia.