A day for the CIS session had been the missing line: the hosting-season announcements that reached the wires last week carried none.
Three summits in 3 days put Avaza at the centre of the autumn's diplomacy
Around the summits, the rest of the month fills in. A water-security meeting with the region's states and Afghanistan runs alongside the Caspian ministers; an international women's dialogue, a demographics conference and a CIS interparliamentary healthcare seminar sit in the same October without dates.
Three summits in 3 days put Avaza at the centre of the autumn's diplomacy, 5 weeks after the SCO gathers in Bishkek. The 8 October title matches what Tashkent formalised on Sunday: the format's own host names Azerbaijan in the meeting's name.