ASTANA
The 4th edition of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) began in Astana, Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev is attending the conference that began in Astana under the chairmanship of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov.
Delivering a speech in the opening of the conference, Nazarbayev said he would like to thank Turkey for its contributions to development and strengthening of CICA in the international platform.
Nazarbayev recalled that Turkey would hold the CICA Chairmanship until 2014.
Nazarbayev said CICA had the potential to become an organization and member countries should work jointly for it.
The process of preparing an infrastructure for economic cooperation among CICA member countries continued, he said.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a speech in the conference, saying that an ignorant attitude towards tragedy in Syria was unacceptable.
End of bloodshed must be demanded from all parties in Syria, he said.
Lavrov also said he would like to thank Turkey for its efficiency during its chairmanship of CICA.
Hard to solve global security problems without bringing safety in Asian countries
Nazarbayev has said that it was impossible to solve global security problems without establishing a mutual trust environment among Asia countries.
Speaking at the 4th edition of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev said that there were several unsolved problems among Asian countries which are holding nuclear weapons and increasing their military potentials gradually.
"Without establishing a mutual trust environment in Asia, it is hard to resolve global problems in terms of security. Building a world free of nuclear weapons must be our pivotal target," said Nazarbayev.
