Azerbaijan Considers Tajikistan's Participation In COP29 Important - Minister

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 20. Azerbaijan considersTajikistan's participation in COP29 important, Minister of Economyof Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov said during theAzerbaijan-Tajikistan business forum in Baku today, Trend reports.

“As you know, COP29, the next UN climate conference, will takeplace in Baku in November. While natural resources continue to playa decisive role in the economy of Azerbaijan, the country iscommitted to environmental protection.

We consider it important for our colleagues from Tajikistan toparticipate in this unique and scale platform, and we invite themto visit Baku again on the occasion of this event,” he added.

To note, this November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. Thisdecision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai onDecember 11 last year. Baku will become the center of the world andwill receive about 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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