The fourth online session of the Specialized Meeting on the Development of Cooperation between the CICA Member States for the Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (UNGCTS) was held on 3 August 2022, during which experts from the competent authorities of the CICA Member States continued working on the draft CICA Plan of Action on the Implementation of the UNGCTS. The meeting was organized by the Kazakh Chairmanship and the CICA Secretariat.
The initiative of the CICA Chairmanship, the Republic of Kazakhstan, to convene the Specialized Meeting was supported by the Senior Officials Committee in December 2021. The purpose of the meeting is to ensure that qualified experts from the Member States develop and agree on the draft Plan of Action for its subsequent approval by the CICA governing bodies.
The fourth session of the Specialized Meeting was attended by heads and high-level experts from government agencies, institutions and organizations of the CICA Member States in the field of counterterrorism. The session was chaired by Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Talgat Kaliyev.
The meeting has made significant progress on the draft CICA Plan of Action on the Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The parties agreed to continue working in this direction in order to finalize the document by the Sixth CICA Summit in Nur-Sultan on 12-13 October 2022.
The UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy was adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 60/288 on 8 September 2006. At the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the CICA Member States in April 2016, foreign ministers agreed that the adoption of the CICA Plan of Action on the Implementation of the UNGCTS would provide further impetus to enhance cooperation among the Member States in countering terrorism, and called for concerted efforts to ensure its full and effective implementation.
