The seventh summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, or CICA, admitted Laos as its 29th member, extended Azerbaijan's chairmanship through 2028 and adopted the Baku Declaration, Azerbaijani state APA News Agency reported on Oct. 15. The forum's members, however, failed to finalize the organization's long-planned founding charter, which would establish its legal and institutional framework as a formal international organization.