SHANGHAI. KAZINFORM China applauds great political foresight of the President of Kazakhstan. Chinese President Xi Jinping said that addressing the first session of the fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) opened today in Shanghai.
"Kazakh Leader Nursultan Nazarbayev is the initiator of the CICA convocation. We admire his great political foresight and his call of duty in ensuring regional security and stability," he added.

"The hard way of the CICA development shows that the initiative to strengthen multilateral trust and dialogue meets the spirit of the times and needs of the Asian countries. Such attainments would have been impossible without a great contribution of the initiator, Kazakhstan, and a chair country, Turkey," the Chinese President stated.