Laos signs founding documents to become 29th CICA member state
Baku, October 14, AZERTAC
A signing ceremony marking the accession of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) was held in Baku on October 14.
The ceremony was attended by Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan; Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos; and Kairat Sarybay, CICA Secretary General, as well as a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, which serves as the depository for the organization’s founding documents.
Lao Foreign Minister Thongsavanh Phomvihane signed the Declaration on the Principles Guiding Relations between the CICA Member States, dated September 14, 1999, and the Almaty Act, dated June 4, 2022.
The final decision on Laos’ accession to CICA is expected to be approved at the 7th CICA Summit in Baku on October 15. Once approved, the decision will bring the number of CICA member states to 29.
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