MOSCOW. June 11 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will voice Russia's position on Syria, as well as on Iran and North Korea, taking into consideration his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at the upcoming summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Dushanbe.
"We will voice our concrete positions both on Afghanistan and on Syria, taking into consideration the increasingly more complicated situation in Idlib, the Iranian nuclear program, and the situation on the Korean Peninsula, including with our recent negotiations with the North Korean leader taken into account," presidential aide Yury Ushakov told journalists at a news briefing in the run-up to Putin's trip to Dushanbe to take part in the CICA summit.
Putin will be attending the CICA summit in Dushanbe on June 14-15, where he will be arriving from Bishkek, where the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit is due to take place the day before.
The CICA has a broader composition of participants, as it includes 27 member states and 13 countries having observer status, Ushakov said. "A huge number of countries are taking part. But this organization is surely not as consolidated as the SCO. This is precisely a dialogue mechanism," he said.
On June 14, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon will host an informal dinner in honor of the heads of the delegations, while the summit itself is planned for the next day and will deal with a common vision of a safer and more prosperous CICA region.
"The heads of the delegations are also expected to air their approaches toward global and regional security, strategic security, and stability. Of course, this will include deeper economic cooperation and humanitarian matters, as well," he said.
"Naturally, if you take regional matters, the scope here is even broader and includes Afghanistan, the Middle East, Syria, plus the Korean Peninsula and Iran," he said.
President Rahmon will deliver a speech at the start of the meeting and will be followed by Xi Jinping, the president of China, the country that previously held the CICA presidency, and former and first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the founder of the forum.
Putin will mention the importance of collective efforts for forming a just world order and address ways to resolve pressing global and regional problems, Ushakov said.
"He will be speaking about the need to improve regional security and closer cooperation between all Asian states in fighting terrorism," he said.
Russia favors stronger economic ties between all CICA member states, Ushakov said. "We will be speaking about the importance of harmonizing and combining various integration projects being pursued on the Eurasian territory," he said.
The basic outcomes of the talks will be reflected in a joint declaration the leaders should endorse during the meeting, Ushakov said.