6th CICA summit to be held in Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan will be host the 6th Conference on Confidence Building Measures and Interaction in Asia (CICA) summit in October 2022.

The summit meeting will be held on 12-13 October 2022 at the Kazakhstan capital, Nur-Sultan.

The Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) is a multi-national forum for enhancing cooperation towards promoting peace, security and stability in Asia.

The idea of convening CICA was first proposed by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, on 5 October 1992, at the 47th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. 

27 countries including India, China, and Pakistan are members of CICA.

IMPORTANT FACTS -

Summit meetings of CICA :

• The First summit meeting was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 4 June 2022. It was attended by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• The second CICA summit was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on June 17, 2006
• The third CICA Summit was held in Istanbul, Turkey on 8 June 2010
• The Fourth CICA Summit, was held in Shanghai, China on 21 May 2014 
• The Fifth CICA Summit was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 15 June 2019.

Full Form :

CICA : Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia