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Statement by CICA Executive Director Ambassador K.Sarybay at the opening ceremony of the CICA new headquarters, 12 October 2021


Your Excellency,  Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr Akan Rakhmetullin,

Your Excellencies Ministers,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Today, I am deeply honoured and privileged to welcome you at the CICA Secretariat’s new headquarters.

It is very symbolic that inauguration of the new office of CICA is taking place on the eve of its 30th Anniversary and under the Chairmanship of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the host country of the Secretariat.

Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for rendering its continuing support to the CICA process and provision of the spacious new premise at the modern EXPO building. 

The new premises allow to increase the Secretariat’s international staff capacity in order to ensure a fair and balanced representation of all CICA regions at the CICA headquarters. In this regard, we would also like to extend our appreciation to the Governments of the People’s Republic of China, India, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation for the secondment of diplomats to the CICA team.    

Relocation to the new office shall also contribute to further effective work of the Secretariat as well as enhanced interaction with the Embassies of the CICA Member States and International Organizations, accredited in Nur-Sultan.  

Your Excellencies,

Over the course of last year, the Secretariat has continued to work closely with the Chairmanship and the Member States to bring its utmost support in implementation of the tasks set forth before the CICA.

We have organized around 40 events along the five dimensions and, of course, one of the important events - the 6th Ministerial Meeting. We thank the Member States for bold decisions, taken at the Ministerial Meeting, inter alia, updating the CICA Catalogue of the Confidence Building Measures, one of the cornerstone documents of the CICA and approval of the General Guidelines for conducting events on implementation of CICA confidence building measures.

I also express our profound gratitude to the Governments of the People’s Republic of China, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand and Turkey for the voluntary financial contributions to the CICA budget made this year. We also thank Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Israel, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, the Russian Federation, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates for their financial support of the Secretariat in the previous years.

Distinguished Guests,

In closing, I once again thank the Chairmanship and the Member States for your generous and continuing support to the CICA Secretariat. At the Secretariat we stay ready to provide the Chairmanship and the Member States with our best efforts and deliver efficient coordination. 

I would like to invite the Distinguished Minister H.E. Akan Rakhmetullin to cut the ribbon and share his remarks.      

Thank you.

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