TURKMENISTAN WAS AWARDED THE OBSERVER STATUS OF THE CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION AND CONFIDENCE-BUILDING MEASURES IN ASIA

On June 23, 2021, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hajiev took part in a meeting of the Committee of High Officials of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA). The meeting took place in the videoconference format.

During the online meeting, which was attended by the officials from 27 CICA member states, including representatives from observer countries, as well as observer organizations and CICA partners, a wide range of issues of effective interaction on the platform of this Forum was discussed.

Within the framework of the meeting the Head of the working group on chairmanship in CICA Shahrat Nuryshev stated that the application of Turkmenistan on getting the observer status in the Organization was approved.

The participants of the meeting expressed their felicitations to Turkmenistan on the awarding of the observer status of the Organization, which thus became the 9th state-observer of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).