Baku hosts second day of 13th CICA Think Tank Forum PHOTO

The second day of the 13th meeting of the Think Tank Forum of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) is underway in Baku.

This year’s event, themed “Development and Security Resonance: Regional Cooperation and Governance in the Institutional Transformation of CICA”, is jointly organised by the Centre for Analysis of International Relations (CAIR) and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), Caliber.Az reports, citing local media.

The day’s programme includes a session on “CICA as an International Organisation: Transformation and Capacity Building” and a panel discussion on “Shaping a New Asian Order”.

The plenary session, which opened on September 9 and was chaired by Zhao Long of the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, featured speeches from Farid Shafiyev, chairman of the CAIR board, Kairat Sarybay, secretary general of CICA, and other senior officials.

By Aghakazim Guliyev