(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 24. Azerbaijani ForeignMinister Jeyhun Bayramov has held phone discussions with his Germancounterpart Annalena Baerbock on the importance of cooperationwithin the framework of COP29, a source in the Foreign Ministry ofAzerbaijan told Trend .

During the phone conversation, the importance of the eventchaired by Azerbaijan and Germany in the format of the“PetersbergClimate Dialogue” within the framework of our country's holding ofthe 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFramework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) was emphasized.

The parties also discussed the current state and prospects ofAzerbaijani-German bilateral relations, the current situation inthe region, as well as the peace process between Azerbaijan andArmenia.

Detailed information was provided about the meeting of theforeign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, held on May 10–11 inAlmaty, and the need to continue negotiations was emphasized.

The agreements and confidence-building measures reached recentlybetween Azerbaijan and Armenia were also noted, in particular thereturn of four villages belonging to Azerbaijan and thedelimitation of part of the border in accordance with the agreementreached by the delimitation commissions.

An exchange of views also took place on other bilateral andregional issues of mutual interest.

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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