CICA AND ASIAN COOPERATION ORGANIZATIONS (SCO, ASEAN, OIC): COOPERATION POTENTIAL AND PROSPECTS
Laumulin M. Kozhirova S.
2021CA and C Press AB
Central Asia and the Caucasus
2021#22Issue 419 - 30 pp.
The article contains an overview of the activities of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Mea-sures in Asia (CICA), a structure aimed at creating a comprehensive mechanism for developing and reconciling the positions of Asian countries on key security issues. The CICA is a forum that many regional states have joined as permanent participants. Eight countries and five international organiza-tions, including the U.N., currently have an observer status at the CICA, which cooper-ates with existing regional organizations such as SCO, ASEAN, and OIC in a number of specific areas. The current concept of CICA’s work is aligned with five main spheres: military and political collaboration; the fight against new challenges and threats, including terrorism; drug trafficking; transna-tional crime and human trafficking; as well as the economic, environmental and human dimensions. Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, whose members (in-cluding the observer countries) are all also members of the Conference, will be of great importance for the further development of CICA. The presence of both resource-pro-ducing countries and large oil and gas im-porters in the organization creates the pre-conditions for the formation of an energy block within its framework, which will in-crease the energy security of its member states. The authors note that the interaction between ASEAN and the CICA can be based on five points required for building a “community of common destiny,” which were set forth by President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping in Jakarta: (1) adhere to the principle of trust and strive for good neighborliness; (2) adhere to the principle of cooperation and mutual benefit; (3) constantly provide mutual assistance; (4) adhere to the principle of “living in per-fect harmony”; (5) adhere to the principle of openness and tolerance. The authors note that the problem of Afghanistan can become a point of contact and development of joint approaches and strategies of the CICA and the OIC in the context of international and regional securi-ty. The author concludes that the transfor-mation of the CICA into the Organization for Security and Development of Asia, proposed by Kazakhstan, would mean an expansion of the conference format and a turn towards solving new problems. In addition, the ur-gent task of the CICA at present is the tran-sition to qualitatively new levels of coopera-tion—preventive diplomacy and conflict pre-vention.
ASEAN , Belt and Road Initiative , CICA , Cooperation , Kazakhstan , OIC , SCO , Security
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Expert of the Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies at the Committee of Science, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Center of Chinese and Asian Studies at the International Science Complex Astana, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Expert of the Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies at the Committee of Science
Center of Chinese and Asian Studies at the International Science Complex Astana
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