The meeting at Akorda brought together the ministries of foreign affairs from Bahrain, Belarus, India, Qatar, Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and other countries.
On October 12, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev held a meeting with the heads of delegations who had arrived in Nur-Sultan to participate in the 6th Meeting of the CICA Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia), the press office of the President of Kazakhstan reported to CentralAsia.news.
The ministries of foreign affairs from Bahrain, Belarus, India, Qatar, Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, as well as senior representatives from other countries and international organisations attended the political event.
Speaking at the meeting, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev announced the nomination of the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev as Head of the Council of Wise Men and Kazakhstan’s application for a new term of CICA Chairmanship for 2022-2024.
The President noted that the Asian continent was being transformed into the main site of the geopolitical battle in the current changing strategic environment.
The President expressed belief that the 21st century would belong to Asia if the states were able to develop an exclusive and constructive methodology and take on serious obligations and responsibility. He emphasised that great hopes were pinned on the CICA as the only forum capable of constructing a new model of Asian security and common prosperity in the fulfilment of these tasks.
Identifying the tasks, the leader of Kazakhstan emphasised that confidence building and conflict prevention should remain the main course of the CICA’s work.
