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Businessman Yoshihito Oshima, the son of the founder of Japanese financial corporation SFCG, died in Laos. A Laotian activist published surveillance camera footage showing unidentified people shooting at the businessman in a parking lot in Vientiane. LALCO, where he worked as a director, announced his death on October 19 without disclosing the cause, and later deleted the post.
Aziz KarimovOn October 15 in Baku, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith. The sides discussed taking relations to a new level, increasing trade turnover, joint projects in transport, logistics, pharmaceuticals, medicine and tourism, and exchanged views on regional and international issues.
Otabek YusupovLaos signed the founding documents to join the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Baku on October 14, becoming the organization's 29th member. Final approval of Laos' membership is expected at the 7th CICA Summit on October 15 in Baku. CICA, founded in 1992 on Kazakhstan's initiative, unites 28 states covering about 90% of Asia's territory and population, cooperating in five dimensions: military-political, economic, humanitarian, environmental, and new challenges and threats.
Aziz Karimov
