Kazakhstan's chairmanship in CICA comes to end
ASTANA. May 31. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ On threshold of the Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) a regular session of the CICA Senior Officials Committee is to be held in Istanbul on June 5-6. Official Representative of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Askar Abdrakhmanov has announced it today.
According to him, the session will be chaired by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Nurlan Yermekbayev. "This event will be carried out under Kazakhstan's chairmanship for the last time, because next week chairmanship in the Conference will move to Turkey", A.Abdrakhmanov noted.
The session is aimed at completion of work over draft political declaration of the third CICA Summit, adoption of which should give new impulse to the process of formation of the Asian-wide space of cooperation.