CICA became stable factor of regional policy in security - Y. Kazykhanov

As is known, on October 5 it will be 20 years since proposing the initiative on forming the CICA by the President of Kazakhstan.

"20 years ago Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to form the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia. Under your leadership over the recent 20 years the CICA gained recognition worldwide," Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Kazykhanov said at the opening ceremony of the session, according to Pm.kz site.

He also noted that presently the CICA became a real and stable factor of regional and global policy in the sphere of collective security.

"It is the CICA that embodies one of the most important principles of our policy - dialogue and interaction for peaceful resolution of conflicts and effective countering of challenges and threats in the Asian continent. These issues are still relevant," Y. Kazykhanov noted.

The participants of the event discuss the state and prospects of the CICA today. They will exchange opinions on such relevant issues as the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, Afghanistan, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting against transnational crime and priorities of the economic cooperation within the CICA.

Delegations from 24 member states of the CICA take part in the event. Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Vietnam, Egypt, India, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, UAE, Palestine, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Korea are the members of the Organization. The USA, Japan, Ukraine, Indonesia, Malaysia, Qatar, Bangladesh, Philippines and the UN, the OSCE and the LAS have a status of observers.