A signing ceremony regarding the membership of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) was held in Baku on October 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told APA.
The ceremony was attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos Thongsavanh Phomvihane, CICA Secretary General Kairat Sarybay, and a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan in its capacity as the depositary of CICA’s founding documents.
During the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos Thongsavanh Phomvihane signed CICA’s main founding documents — the Declaration on the Principles Guiding Relations among Member States dated September 14, 1999, and the Almaty Act dated June 4, 2022.
At the event, the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Laos and the CICA Secretary General delivered remarks, emphasizing the importance of the decision for CICA, congratulating Laos on the occasion, and expressing their best wishes regarding its future membership.
The final decision on Laos’s membership is expected to be approved at the Seventh CICA Summit to be held in Baku on October 15. This will bring the number of CICA member states to 29.
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