With a view to implement the decision on the transformation of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) adopted at the historic Sixth Summit of the Conference in October 2022, CICA Secretary General Ambassador Kairat Sarybay and Sensata Group CEO Maxim Mikhailov signed a trilateral Memorandum on the Construction of the CICA Headquarters Building. The Akimat (city administration) of Astana is another party to this agreement, DKNews.kz reports.
In his welcoming remarks, the CICA Secretary General mentioned that Kazakhstan's initiative to establish an international security organization on the world's largest continent, Asia, had been successfully put into action, and the organization had taken its rightful place in the regional and global security architecture.
As instructed by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Akimat of Astana allocated a land plot in a new developing and promising part of the capital for the construction of the headquarters building.
Sensata Group, given its global experience, has kindly offered its services as part of the public-private partnership to build a modern headquarters that meets international standards.
Given a strong architectural and engineering background of Sensata Group, Ambassador Kairat Sarybay expressed his wish that the investor use the most cutting-edge green technologies in erecting the headquarters, noting that the new headquarters was to become one of the landmark buildings in the architecture of the Kazakh capital.
The Memorandum identified the key areas of cooperation of the parties and defined institutional responsibilities to provide the Secretariat with a new edifice.
The parties agreed to exert maximum efforts to complete the construction and commissioning of the CICA headquarters at the earliest.
