Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA)

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About CICA:

The Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia is an inter-governmental forum for enhancing cooperation towards promoting peace, security and stability in Asia.
To be a member of CICA, a state must have at least a part of its territory in Asia.
The Secretariat of CICA is located in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. (28 Countries)

Belarus, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States. (9 Countries)

International Organization for Migration, League of Arab States, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic Speaking Countries, United Nations. (5 Organisations)

The idea of convening the CICA was first proposed by Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on 5 October 1992, at the 47th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The first meeting of the CICA Ministers of Foreign Affairs was held on 14 September 1999 with participation of 15 Member States.
The ‘Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between CICA Member States’ was adopted at this meeting.
The first CICA summit was held on 4 June 2002 with participation of 16 Member States and Almaty Act, the charter of the CICA, was adopted in this summit.