Excerpts from the statement of His Excellency Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan during the general debate at 62 Session of United Nations General Assembly (25 September, 2007, New-York)
…Speaking of Asia, we have to mention here the issue of the establishment of a continental arrangement of collective security. That has become possible due to the implementation of Kazakhstan's initiative to convene the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building in Asia (CICA), declared by me standing on this very podium, during the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly in 1992.

Today, the CICA process brings together 18 states, which occupy 90 percent of Asia’s territory. Their population makes half of the people living on our planet. Time has proven the relevance of the CICA process, within which a political dialogue among Asian states is gaining momentum…