New Delhi [India], May 23 : Secretary General of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Ambassador Kairat Sarybay talked about India's role in CICA, adding that India has many thought-provoking things on improving the relations within the 28-nation grouping.
He further highlighted that the bloc can address terrorism and cybersecurity which has emerged as a global threat.
He mentioned that "India has a very traditionally active foreign policy" starting from initiating the Non-Aligned Movement and in many other international forums as India plays a significant control in ensuring "global security".
Kairat Sarybay is in India and during his visit he empahsised on how India can improve the relations within the CICA.
"So that is why I'm here to listen on the ideas that India has to deliver within the CICA and I'm very satisfied that India has many thought-provoking things about how we can improve the relations within the CICA because the new role of Asia is well perceived by Indian authorities," he added.
The Secretary General of CICA, during his speech at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia-CICA, also threw light on terrorism and cybersecurity being a global threat and how CICA will address the issue in the upcoming meeting.
Sarybay said that in the last summit meeting, the leaders, heads of the state and the government issued a joint document on ICT security and "this is quite important that they engaged at the highest possible level with this issue, which is a very topical one."
Bringing attention to India's contribution to that process, he said, "This week India will arrange a webinar on the misuse of the internet that would be very interesting for the specialists but also for the general public how we can avoid the misuse of internet."
He recalled how the first CICA summit in Almaty helped to de-escalate the tension between India and Pakistan in 2002.
Kairat Sarybay while recalling the first summit said that at the very birth of CICA, "two major Asian countries in South Asia leaders met in Almaty because CICA provided this platform and at that time, India and Pakistan agreed to de-escalate. I was there at that meeting and international media immediately reflected hope CICA was bound to bring confidence between its stakeholders."
When asked if CICA can mediate between India and China, Sarbay said that it depends upon the wishes of the two sides.
"CICA has the principle of taking all decisions by consensus. If we will have no consensus, we cannot act. So this is quite important that all sites involved in any conflict will perform the wish to solve the issue. If they need any assistance from the international community, including CICA, we are ready to provide any assistance that we can," he told ANI.
Responding to what can CICA do in a collateral way, the Secretary-General added that CICA can "create confidence, bringing sites together, giving them the platform where they can meet each other without any compromise but with the will to solve the problem."
"So that is why, yes, CICA is a very valuable mechanism but CICA is not a magic stick, so we desperately need the good wishes of our members," he added.
CICA is an intergovernmental forum aimed at enhancing cooperation in promoting peace, security and stability in Asia and around the world.
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