Israel should be excluded from the Conference on Interaction and Confidence‑Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, told the CICA summit in Baku, according to ISNA agency.

“The most important source of insecurity and instability in Asia, especially in the Western Asia region, is [Israel]. It is time to exclude [it] from the CICA mechanism,” he said.