Seventh session of CICA Council adopts series of documents (PHOTO)

[ad_1] BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 17. On 17 December 2024, the seventh assembly of the Council of Ministers of Overseas Affairs (Ministerial Council) of the Convention on Interplay and Confidence-Constructing Measures in Asia (CICA) was held in an internet format hosted by Azerbaijan, Pattern stories through Azerbaijani Overseas Ministry.

Overseas Ministers, State Ministers, Deputy Overseas Ministers, as effectively as heads of delegations from 27 member nations, participated within the assembly of the Ministerial Council and addressed speeches. Leaders of three observer states and eight accomplice worldwide organizations additionally participated within the Ministerial Council assembly.

On the MC assembly, the chairmanship of the convention for 2024-2026 was handed over to Azerbaijan.

Addressing the assembly, Minister Jeyhun Bayramov thanked all Member States for the arrogance positioned in Azerbaijan and for approving its chairmanship of CICA for 2024-2026.

The minister additionally highlighted that as multipolarity rises and multilateralism faces new challenges, Asia should reply with unity, cooperation, and shared duty. He additionally pressured that CICA is uniquely positioned to foster this cooperation and handle the challenges confronted.

Minister Jeyhun Bayramov famous that the Azerbaijani Chairmanship of CICA is grounded within the theme of “Stronger CICA – Connectivity, Digitalization, and Sustainable Development in Asia” and can prioritize three overarching points, specifically CICA’s transformation and institutional growth, sectoral cooperation by way of the implementation of confidence-building measures, and selling synergy between CICA and different worldwide and regional organizations.

Minister Jeyhun Bayramov additionally emphasised that over 20 chairmanship occasions are deliberate for 2025 throughout all 5 CICA dimensions. On this regard, he mentioned that particular focus shall be on cooperation areas equivalent to transportation corridors, growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, agriculture, cybersecurity, setting, youth, tourism, safety of cultural heritage, humanitarian mine motion, science, and schooling.

As well as, the Minister highlighted that Azerbaijan’s chairmanship will concentrate on growing CICA’s worldwide visibility and increasing its community of partnerships with different worldwide and regional organizations.

Furthermore, a “Report on the achievements of the Convention beneath the Chairmanship of Kazakhstan in 2020-2024” was offered by the Secretary Common of CICA, Kairat Sarybay.

The CICA Ministerial Council adopted a Commemorative Assertion on the twenty fifth Anniversary of the Declaration on the Ideas Guiding Relations among the many CICA Member States, in addition to “Choice of the CICA Ministerial Council on Modalities of Implementation of CICA Confidence Constructing Measures," the amended model of “CICA Catalogue of Confidence Constructing Measures,” and “Memorandum of Institution of the Partnership Community of Main Universities of the Member States of CICA.”