A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) has set a milestone in the history of CICA as well as in the Asia security and cooperation process.
China and Pakistan pledged closer cooperation in fighting terrorism on Thursday amid simmering threats from terrorists in the two countries.
Member states of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) vowed Wednesday to seek common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustained security.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security strategy for Asia.
China is a strong champion of the Asian security concept and is working to put it into practice, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday.
The three months leading to the 4th Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, or CICA, were marked by a spate of terrorist attacks in several Chinese cities. The conference, therefore, has assumed greater significance. Besides, it is the first major international event to be hosted by China under President Xi Jinping's leadership. As Xi takes over the chairmanship of CICA, the largest regional forum in Asia, he is expected to showcase China's vision for the "Asian century". The conference will also see Xi elucidating on his Chinese Dream and Silk Road frameworks in the larger context of regional security and development paradigm.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Shanghai on Monday, vowing to back Afghanistan's efforts to maintain national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
While Asia has become the world's most economically dynamic region, security cooperation has been a weakness.
TWO DAYS ARE TOO SHORT FOR CONSENSUSES to be reached on the multitude of security concerns facing the countries of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
Unresolved feuds and outside intervention leave lingering problems that require greater efforts to promote regional cooperation
The upcoming Asian security summit is important for Iran due to the meeting's "significant" role in working toward world peace, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said here Tuesday.