Crucial to transform coop between CICA, OSCE into establishment of Continental Security Platform - Kazakh President
ISTANBUL. June 8. KAZINFORM /Yernur Akanbai/ Kazakhstan has proposed to establish the OSCE-CICA Forum. Cooperation and interaction between the CICA and OSCE should be transformed into establishment of a continental security platform. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said it today at the III Summit of the CICA Heads of State and Government in Istanbul today.
The Head of the State noted that the CICA and SCO should establish close contacts between each other as well. "The CICA should expand cooperation with Muslim states and, first of all, with the Organization of the Islamic Conference", N. Nazarbayev stressed.
He also reminded of the Kazakhstan's chairmanship in the OSCE and noted that it would lay foundation to the new stage in relations between East and West. "In this regard I have proposed the initiative to convene the OSCE Summit in 2010", the President emphasized.