Full coverage: 5th CICA Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Beijing

BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Foreign ministers of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) member states will meet in Beijing from April 27 to 28, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang announced on Wednesday.

It will be the foreign ministers' fifth meeting since CICA was established in 1992 as a forum for dialogue and consultations on security issues in Asia.

CICA has 26 member countries, including China, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, and Thailand. It includes some other countries and international organizations as observers.

Foreign ministers of observer countries and representatives of international organizations will also attend the meeting, Lu said.

China hosted the fourth CICA summit in Shanghai in 2014. It holds the CICA presidency from 2014 to 2016.