Belarusian President To Participate In Azerbaijan's Baku-Hosted COP29
Date
10/3/2024 6:12:08 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 3. President of
Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will participate in the conference of
the Parties to the UN Framework convention on Climate Change
(COP29) this November in Baku, Trend reports via the Belarusian Telegraph
Agency BELTA.
This issue was discussed during a meeting between President of
Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali
Asadov.
“We attach special importance to your personal participation,
which will give special status to this conference,” the prime
minister emphasized.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This decision was
made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on December 11 last
year. Baku will become the center of the world and will receive
about 70–80,000 foreign guests.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an
agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992
to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
COP-the Conference of the Parties-is the highest legislative body
overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on
Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are parties to the
Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the COP is held
annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Germany's
Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.
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