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, TurkicWorld 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.