After security goals, CICA looks for welfare, and in fact, the CICA Summit pursues the two goals of security and welfare. In the field of welfare-related activities, this organization seeks to strengthen the economic cooperation between the member countries. Considering that security is the foundation of economic investments today, CICA's welfare approach is considered important.
Considering the US's failures in connection with the issue of negotiations and the lack of will in this country to remove the sanctions against Iran and return to the JCPOA, as well as the inability of European countries to convince the US to fulfill its obligations, at this point, paying attention and focusing on neutralizing the sanctions becomes doubly important.
Iran president is, therefore, attending regional summits such as Shanghai and CICA can provide Iran with this goal.
As the second point, considering that Iran seeks to strengthen its relations with neighboring countries in the framework of the "Look East" approach, it can take advantage of its presence in CICA in multilateral and bilateral dimensions.
In the multilateral dimension, cooperation with CICA member states, and in the bilateral dimension, mutual cooperation with these countries can be desired.
In economic fields such as transportation, energy, trade, and agriculture, the Islamic Republic of Iran and these countries can cooperate with each other and use the existing capacities.
As a country with a completely unique political geography and a bridge connecting Central Asia and the Caucasus to Europe, East Asia and Africa, Iran is very important for these fields and CICA members because some of these countries are landlocked and therefore using Iran's transportation lines is very important for them.
At the same time, some of these countries are Caspian Sea littoral states, and we can follow sea transportation with these countries and consider sea, land, and rail transportation as combined transportation.
In the trade sector, the large market of these countries is important for Iran, which seeks to export non-oil goods, and the existence of a large Iranian market is important for CICA member states in order to strengthen Iran's trade cooperation with these countries.
In the energy sector, some of these countries, such as Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, are exporters of energy, oil and gas, and some are also importers of energy, and we can have very good exchanges in this field in bilateral, multilateral and mixed forms.
On the other hand, the issue of gas and oil swap with countries that are interested in using this capacity of Iran is important, which can lead to good results.
Russia and Turkey are Eurasian countries, i.e. part of these countries are located in Europe and part in Asia, and they are also members of CICA, and it can be said that this organization is not a purely Asian institution, but due to the presence of countries such as Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan, this organization is considered a Eurasian entity.
Iran can have very good strategic cooperation with Russia, according to the 20-year strategic agreement, and this cooperation will definitely help the security and stability of the region and remove the risk of war and conflict from the region so that the investors can attend safely.
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