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

His plane landed in the country’s capital Baku, a TASS correspondent reported.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the event will focus on further development of the organization. Besides, the participants will exchange opinions on pressing international and regional issues.

CICA is an inter-governmental forum for resolving 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 UN, the Arab League, OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) and the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries have observer status.