(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 25. I am glad thatAzerbaijan is hosting COP29 this year, Federal Minister for ForeignAffairs of Germany Annalena Baerbock said at a briefing withAzerbaijani Energy Minister, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev on theresults of the 15th Petersberg Climate Dialogue held today inBerlin, Trend reports.
"Azerbaijan has made a substantial climate pledge, and we willsupport it. We will work with the COP chairs from the United ArabEmirates, Azerbaijan, and Brazil to establish a bridge connectingDubai, Berlin, and Baku. I am hopeful that this bridge will help tobring Azerbaijan and Armenia closer together. I'm delighted withour collaboration," Baerbock said.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision wasmade at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 lastyear. Baku will become the center of the world and will receiveabout 70-80,000 foreign guests.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is anagreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system- the Conference of the Parties - is the highest legislativebody overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention onClimate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to theConvention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is heldannually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Germany'sBerlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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