The very first meeting between the six states took place on September 26, 2015, during the Seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly where then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with his foreign minister counterparts from the five states to establish a new multilateral dialogue platform. Following the meeting at the U.N., from October to November, Kerry embarked on visiting each of the five countries marking the first time a Secretary of State visited these countries since James Baker in 1992 following their independence from the Soviet Union.