COP29 Represents New Platform For Cooperation - Azerbaijani FM

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 10. COP29 represents anew platform for cooperation, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister JeyhunBayramov said during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister andForeign Minister of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu, Trend reports via the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.

“It was highlighted that besides bilateral cooperation spanningeconomy, trade, investment, energy security, and transportation,collaboration on regional and international platforms, particularlywithin the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), offers significantpotential.

Jeyhun Bayramov thoroughly briefed the Kazakh side on thearrangements for the upcoming 29th session of the Conference of theParties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29),scheduled to take place in Azerbaijan this year. He emphasized thatCOP29 serves as a fresh avenue for collaboration,” the ministrysaid.

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 Conference of the Parties-is the highest legislative bodyoverseeing 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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