The AICHR Workshop on the outcome of the thematic study on right to peace was organized in Vientiane, on the 7 December 2018 chaired by Mr. Phoukhong Sisoulath, Director General of Treaties and Law department, Ministry of foreign Affair, who is also the Lao Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), with about 40 participants from 10 ASEAN Member States were in attendance.

On 20-21 November 2018, The 19^th FEALAC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM), which took place for the first time in Laos, has ended with a successful outcome on the path to the next FEALAC SOM, to be held alongside the ministerial meeting in Latin America next year.

On 29 August 2018 at the Government House in Wellington, Mr. Sisavath INPHACHANH presented the Letter of Credentials to Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy GNZM, QSO, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Realm of New Zealand, accrediting him as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to New Zealand.