Strengthening the role-playing necessity of Sika today

The presidents and leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia, Turkey, Pakistan, Qatar, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Palestine and Tajikistan are present in this meeting, as well as the vice presidents of China and Vietnam and the rest of the countries at the level of ministers. They will attend.

SICA is an international forum for interaction and strengthening cooperation with the aim of ensuring peace, security and stability in Asia and actions, methods and ways of achieving confidence building in this continent.

Its 27 permanent members include the Islamic Republic of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, South Korea, and Russia. , Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

8 SICA member countries with 38.8 million square meters or 89% of the land of Asia, cover about 72% of the Eurasian region, and this group includes about 3 billion people of the planet.

Observing countries include Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Ukraine, the United States, Belarus, the Philippines, and Laos, and the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Arab League, the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries, and the International Organization for Migration are among its member organizations. to be

The plan to create a meeting of heads of interaction and confidence-building measures in Asia, October 1992, at the 47th session of the United Nations General Assembly by Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in order to promote bilateral relations and cooperation between Asian countries with the aim of establishing stability and security It was raised in the region.

This organization was officially established in 1996, and the meeting of SICA leaders is held every 4 years and the meeting of foreign ministers is held every 2 years in one of the member countries, and the headquarters of the said conference is located in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Two basic and primary documents related to SICA introduce the goals and methods of this conference. The first is the declaration of the principles of cooperation based on the relations between the SICA member countries, which was signed at the first meeting of the foreign ministers of the member countries on September 14, 1999 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The second document is the SICA Charter, which was finalized at the first meeting of the heads of member states of this conference on June 4, 2002 in Almaty. These two documents set the direction of the conference towards the future progress of the SICA member states.

The 6th SICA Summit is scheduled to be held today and tomorrow (October 20 and 21, 1401) in Astana under the chairmanship of Kassem Jumart Tokayev, and the most important topics and agenda will be global and regional issues.
The fourth round of the SICA summit was hosted by Shanghai, China on May 31, 2013, and the fifth round was held on June 14 and 15, 2018, hosted by Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.

In this meeting, which was titled “Common Vision for a Safe and Prosperous Region”, important regional and international issues were discussed and opinions of the attendees were discussed and a final statement titled “Monday Statement” was published.

At the time of holding the fourth summit, political experts expressed their opinion that considering the holding of this summit during the period of increased sanctions and pressures of the American government against some Asian countries, the said summit is of special importance.

In addition, in Monday’s statement, the countries present at the SICA summit emphasized their commitment to the right to form an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

The first and second summits of SICA in 2002 and 2006 in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, the third summit in 2010 (17 June 2009) in Istanbul, Turkey with the themes of nuclear disarmament, peaceful use of energy and confidence building in Asia and the summit The fourth was held in Shanghai, China in 2014.

The fifth SICA conference was also held in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on June 27, 2018.

In addition to holding various summits with the presence of the heads of member states, SICA tries to help solve them with a partnership and cooperation, by holding seminars to share the experiences of different countries in facing common issues and challenges.

In this connection, it is possible to mention the project on the protection of Iran’s wetlands in a virtual meeting where the experiences and achievements of this project were shared with the presence of representatives from Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Bangladesh, Thailand and China.
In addition, in this virtual meeting, the participants got acquainted with the experiences of the seven phases of the project “Modeling the participation of local communities for the restoration of Lake Urmia” and discussed about its various dimensions.
In the sixth SICA summit in Astana, the Islamic Republic of Iran called for the dynamism of regional organizations to deal with unilateralism in the world and to deal with terrorism and extremism as the most important regional and international issues in the world and to pay attention to them as one of the axes of the agenda. The work of this summit and strengthening the capacities of the conference has been related to them.

Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on 13 August 1400, in a meeting with Ghiret Sariba, Executive Director of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (SICA), emphasized that the dynamics of regional organizations is an important factor in the way of confronting unilateralism.

He stated: The Islamic Republic of Iran intends to effectively use the capacity of regional and international institutions to defend the rights and interests of independent countries.

In this meeting, the executive director of the Asian Interaction and Confidence Building Conference “SICA” also expressed his hope for the continuation and strengthening of the constructive role of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the SICA mechanism for the expansion of peace and security in the region and the world and said: Today, the Asian continent has an important influence on The management of global developments and the SICA organization seeks to strengthen the role of Asian countries in the international arena.

He clarified: The focus of SICA’s activity is on strengthening the role of Asian countries in making decisions on the issues of this continent and preventing non-Asian countries from interfering in the developments of this continent.

Hossein AmirAbdollahian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on June 15, 1401, before the aforementioned conference and during the meeting with Ghiret Saribai in Tehran, while emphasizing the importance of SICA’s role in regional and international developments, on the need to strengthen the capacities of this organization as much as possible in facing important regional issues, especially He emphasized terrorism and extremism.

He further emphasized the principled support of the Islamic Republic of Iran for strengthening and promoting the position of SICA and its initiatives in relation to regional and international issues.

The executive director of SICA while appreciating Iran’s participation and constructive cooperation in SICA’s regional activities by presenting a report on the secretariat’s actions, explaining the plans ahead of the Asian Interaction and Confidence Building Conference, including the planning of holding the sixth meeting of heads of SICA member states in Mehr 1401 and the transformation initiative SICA became an international organization.

Considering the Zionist regime’s insidious influence in regional mechanisms and the membership of Iranian personalities and institutions in SICA mechanisms, it was announced that Amir Abdollahian’s meeting with Saribai was another axis.

The final conclusion is that considering the position and role of SICA in the vast and important continent of Asia and the presence of important and powerful countries of the future world, this conference can play a fundamental, constructive and key role in a world that is rapidly changing and evolving. To play a role in regional and global issues, especially in relation to its members.

In addition, considering the political geography of Asian countries and the changes that have started in the unipolar world system since the previous years and we are witnessing the continuous and powerful movement of some countries of this continent such as Iran, Russia, China and India, it is necessary to The conference has strengthened its position to play a role in today’s era so that it can be more hopeful and promising for its members.

At the time of announcing the formation of this conference, Nazarbayev justified his plan with things such as ending the bipolar world; The development of the phenomenon of globalization and its consequences; The gradual process of regionalism in global policies; The qualitative transformation in most Asian countries and the common problems affecting the countries of the region were mentioned.

It is also important to pay attention to the fact that due to the existence of some territorial differences, conflicts and different views among the SICA countries, it is necessary to reach the goals that have brought the members together, to resolve these problems and to interact to reach them faster. to the desired goals of the organization.