Statements and Remarks of CICA Secretary General Ambassador Kairat Sarybay

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Remarks by CICA Executive Director Ambassador Kairat Sarybay at the event, dedicated to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Kazakhstan's membership in the United Nations, 2 March 2022


Distinguished Deputy Minister,

Excellencies,

First of all, I would like to greet all the participants and express my sincere appreciation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan for organization of this important event to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Kazakhstan’s membership to the United Nations.   

It gives me a profound feeling of satisfaction to note that the United Nations has been playing the crucial role in safeguarding the universal peace and security, giving humanitarian assistance and protecting human rights and upholding international law for more than 75 years. The foundational principles once set in the United Nation’s Charter in 1945, including the equality of nations, respect for human rights and obligation of member countries to cooperate to use peaceful means to resolve conflicts have not lost their relevance up until now. 

We live in an era of changes and upheavals, and every year brings us new challenges, including regional conflicts, economic instability, threats like human and drug trafficking, terrorism, refugee crises and natural disasters. Such drastic changes in the international landscape clearly demonstrate that the only way for ensuring global stability, security and peace is through maintaining multilateralism. And today’s armed conflicts and humanitarian crises, as well as the pandemics and its consequences cannot be resolved without dialogue and maintaining cooperation of states at regional and global levels.    

 It is symbolic that one of the main foreign policy initiatives of the Republic of Kazakhstan, aimed at ensuring peace and security, has its origin in the United Nations. On 5 October 1992 the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in his very first statement from the rostrum of 47th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly put forward an initiative for convening the CICA.

This year has an important significance for CICA as it marks its 30th Anniversary from the date it was initiated.  

The UN Secretary-General Mr. Antonio Guterres recently noted that ensuring peace and security in a complex and rapidly changing world requires partnerships across all levels. Now more than ever, a more effective UN depends on stronger and deeper cooperation with regional organizations. And CICA fully aligns and supports this statement.

Today CICA is the largest intergovernmental forum in Asia, uniting 27 countries of Asia and representing 90 percent of the territory of the continent with population of over 3 billion people. The most important fundamental document of CICA, the Almaty Act of 2002, declared the determination of the Member States to form a common and indivisible security area in Asia. In the Declaration on the principles guiding relations of 1999 the CICA Member States confirmed their adherence to the universal principles of international law, stipulated in the United Nations Charter. 

As an intergovernmental forum with the largest geographical reach in the Asian region and with the broad agenda, it is a platform with a huge potential to grow. As you all know, in 2020 Kazakhstan was elected as the Chairman of CICA and put forward the ambitious goal of transformation of the CICA into international organization for regional security and cooperation in Asia.

Given the global nature of current challenges, CICA and its Member States are focused on building closer partnership with other regional and global organizations, in order to bring a broader response to the current challenges and uniting the synergy of international organizations. 

The overarching ambition of CICA is clear – to reduce global tensions and threat of conflicts, and instead focus on interaction and development, especially in Asia. Ahead of the upcoming CICA Summit of the Heads of State on 12-13 October in Nur-Sultan, we believe that CICA can play one of the central roles in achieving these common objectives.

Once again, I would like to thank the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan for inviting CICA to this important celebration.

Thank you.

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