Mandate of CICA presidency goes to Turkish president.

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ISTAMBUL, June 8 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
turned over a mandate of presidency of Conference on Interaction and
Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) to Turkish President Abdullah
Gul at a third CICA conference in Istanbul on Tuesday.
Turkey has a unique historical, political and cultural experience to
spearhead a very difficult process of building confidence and developing
Asian cooperation, Nazarbayev declared. He emphasized an important subject
in the focus of the Turkish chairmanship - a broad dialogue on political
security in Asia: a key to the development of a cooperative approach to
security.
Nazarbayev declared he has deep confidence that Turkey as the CICA
chairman would carry on a purpose-orientated work to advance a concept of
inseparable cooperative security in Asia by means of a broad dialogue and
aspirations to reach consensus on this problem.
Kazakhstan was CICA chairman in 2002-2006. Then, Kazakhstan was
re-elected for a second term until 2010.
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