Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia
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Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) is an inter-governmental security forum in Asia which was initiated by Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1992.
In 1996, seventeen states participated in the conference and drafted the basic document. The first CICA summit was held in 2002. In 2006, the second CICA summit decided to accept South Korea as its 18th member state.
CICA Member States include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, India, Israel, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, State of Palestine, Republic of Korea, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
The United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Indonesia, Japan, Ukraine, and the United States are observers.