Kazakh Chairmanship Holds Online Meeting of CICA’s Special Working Group

Nur-Sultan, May 27, 2021 - At the initiative of Kazakhstan, a meeting of the Special Working Group of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) was held in the format of a videoconference under the chairmanship of Zhoshykhan Kyraubayev - Director of Department for Asia and Pacific of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Executive Director of the CICA Secretariat Kairat Sarybay and representatives of the foreign ministries of the 27 CICA member states at the level of Directors of Department attended this event.

Taking into account the current global and regional trends, the main points of discussion were the issues of updating the CICA Catalogue of Confidence-building Measures.

At the same time, the parties exchanged views on further improvement of the CICA Rules of Procedure, as well as approaches to the implementation of CICA events aimed at the practical implementation of confidence-building measures.

​Following the meeting, the participants agreed to continue discussing these issues during the next meeting of the SWG and the CICA Senior Officials Committee, which will take place in June 2021.