Baku:Laos has officially signed the founding documents to become the 29th member state of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). The signing ceremony took place on October 14 in Baku.

According to Azerbaijan State News Agency, the event 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. A representative from Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the depository for CICA's founding documents, was also present.

Lao Foreign Minister Thongsavanh Phomvihane signed the Declaration on the Principles Guiding Relations between the CICA Member States, initially dated September 14, 1999, along with the Almaty Act from June 4, 2022. The final approval of Laos' accession to CICA is anticipated at the 7th CICA Summit in Baku on October 15, which will confirm Laos as the 29th member state of the organization.