CICA Summit begins tomorrow

The two-day 3rd Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) will begin in the Turkish city of Istanbul tomorrow.
Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni will attend the summit.
CICA is a multi-national forum for enhancing cooperation towards promoting peace, security and stability in Asia. It is a forum based on the recognition that there is close link between peace, security and stability in Asia and in the rest of the world.
According to an official announcement by Turkish government that heads of state and government, ministers and other senior officials from nearly 40 countries will participate in the meeting to be held in Ciragan Palace.
The member states, while affirming their commitment to the UN Charter, believe that peace and security in Asia can be achieved through dialogue and cooperation leading to a common indivisible area of security in Asia where all states co-exist peacefully and their peoples live in peace, freedom and prosperity.
A declaration on regional and global developments will be issued at the end of the summit, official sources said.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, presidents of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Palestine, vice presidents of Iraq and Vietnam as well as high-level officials from Kuwait, China and other countries will participate in the summit.
On the sidelines of the summit, Dipu Moni will have meeting with Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on June 8, according to a foreign ministry release.
Dipu Moni will hold a bilateral meeting with vice president of Vietnam Nguyen Thi doan on June 9 and Foreign Minister of Jordan Naser Joudeh. She is expected to return Dhaka on June 10.
The summit will most likely focus on the current crisis on the Korean peninsula, following the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean submarine.
Turkey will take over the rotating presidency of the organisation from Kazakhstan until 2012.