(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 2. European Unionsupports Azerbaijan's chairmanship of COP29, Ambassador of the EUto Azerbaijan Peter Michalko told reporters, Trend reports.
"This year, our collaboration is intricately linked to theclimate agenda. The European Union, a leading international actorin the fight against climate change, is willing to work togetherwith Azerbaijan to provide assistance during its presidency ofCOP29. We collaborate with the objective of identifying andpromoting resolutions to worldwide climate issues," he said.
According to Michalko, Azerbaijan and the EU are close partnersand cooperation between the countries also involves the energysector.
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 Berlin,and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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