Tajikistan
June 15, 2019
By RFE/RL's Tajik Service
Asummit of a 27-member regional grouping called the Conference on
Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) opened on
June 15 in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe. Russian President Vladimir
Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iranian President Hassan Rohani,
and other leaders of member countries including Saudi Arabia and the
U.A.E. are attending the summit. Observers at the Dushanbe summit
include the United States, Ukraine, Belarus, Japan, the United Nations,
and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).