Place of employment: Institute of legislation and comparative law under the Government of the Russian Federation. <...> Department: Center of the legal problems of integration and international cooperation. <...> Place of employment: Russian Economic University named after G.V.Plekhanov. <...> E-mail: mosssp@mail.ru Annotation: At the present stage of development of humanity the process of regionalization affected virtually all countries of the world, which often are the members of several regional unions. <...> Increasingly cooperation occurs not only in the framework of some regional organizations; the international forum is a form of cooperation which becomes more and more popular in present time. <...> The article is devoted to one of such international forums – the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (SICA), uniting together 26 countries of the Asian region; in article were analyzed its mission, areas of cooperation of States, institutional structure, differ236 ences from other similar sites of interaction between countries. <...>