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Uzbek researcher spotlights importance of dialogue to address modern challenges

AnyFans 2025-09-12

By Middle Corridor

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 10. Modern
challenges and threats can only be addressed through dialogue,
Bakhtiyor Mustafaev, deputy director of the Institute of Strategic
and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of
Uzbekistan, said at the 13th Meeting of the CICA Think Tank Forum
on the theme “Resonance of Development and Security: Regional
Cooperation and Governance in the Institutional Transformation of
CICA” in Baku today, Trend reports.

“Modern challenges and threats can only be overcome through
dialogue, taking into account each other’s interests and observing
recognized norms of international law. In these conditions, the
willingness to bear collective responsibility for prosperity and
sustainable development, as well as to develop a unified approach
to current issues of regional and international security, is
becoming more acute than ever,” the analyst said.

According to Mustafaev, special attention is required to
consolidate efforts to ensure long-term and sustainable peace in
Afghanistan.

Restoring the socio-economic situation and implementing major
infrastructure projects in this country will open up new strategic
opportunities for all countries in the region.

The analyst also noted that the transformation process that the
CICA is currently undergoing should receive practical content.

He emphasized the need to strengthen commitment to the
fundamental principles of the organization, including mutual trust,
equality, respect for cultural diversity, the desire for joint
development, and the immutability of the consensus principle in
decision-making.

At the 1992 UN General Assembly, Kazakhstan’s then-President
Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed the Conference on Interaction and
Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). The Declaration on
Principles Guiding Relations between CICA Member States and the
Almaty Act, approved in 1999 and 2002, respectively, are the
organization’s basic texts. Asian nations welcomed the CICA plan.
The interested countries met for seven years to explore CICA
modalities and create basic papers. On September 14, 1999, 15
member states attended the first CICA Ministers of Foreign Affairs
meeting. CICA Member States adopted the Declaration on Principles
Guiding Relations during this meeting.

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