Lavrov arrived in Azerbaijan to participate in the CICA meeting

Participants will exchange views on important international and regional issues

Baku, October 14. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Azerbaijan to participate in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA).

According to Tas reporter, his plane landed in Baku, the capital of this country.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the event would focus on further development of the organization. In addition, participants will exchange views on important international and regional issues.

CICA is an intergovernmental forum for solving key regional problems and developing cooperation between member states.

CICA has 28 member countries: Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Russia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Belarus, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United States, the Philippines and Japan, as well as the United Nations, the Arab League, the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) and the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries have observer status.