BAKU, Oct. 15 -- Ilham Aliyev told the president of Laos on Tuesday that trade between their countries "reflects neither our potential nor our intentions." Neither leader said what that trade is.

Thongloun Sisoulith was making the first official visit to Azerbaijan by a Lao president, the Azerbaijani presidency said, three decades after the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1995. They adopted a joint statement and exchanged an agriculture memorandum and an agreement waiving visas for holders of service passports, which are held by officials rather than ordinary travelers.

A day earlier Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Manet, was in Baku on an official visit. Aliyev called trade with Cambodia "still very modest," and the tw...