Chinese foreign minister to attend CICA FMs’ meeting in Almaty

Xinhua, China
Oct 15 2004

2004-10-15 22:31:51

BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) — Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing
will pay an official visit to Armenia, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan and
attend the foreign ministers’ meeting of the Conference on Interaction
and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia(CICA) to be held from October
18 to 24 in Almaty.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue made the announcementshere
Friday, saying that Li will make this tour at the invitation of Kazakh
State Secretary-Minister of Foreign Affairs KasymzhomartKemelevich
Tokayev, Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanyan,
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs ofTurkmenistan
Rashid Meredov, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar
Mammadyarov.

CICA, a forum aimed at increasing security in Asia, was first
proposed by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the 47th
UN general assembly in 1992 and its 16 members include China,
Russia,Egypt, Afghanistan, Israel, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India and
Palestine. Enditem

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress