BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 13. Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday to attend the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, TurkicWorld reports.
At Heydar Aliyev International Airport, Mikhail Mishustin was welcomed by Farid Ahmadov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Justice, along with other officials.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) started in Baku on November 11. 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 in the climate system.
The abbreviation COP in English means "Conference of the Parties", it is the highest legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. A total of 198 countries are Parties to the Convention. Unless the parties decide otherwise, the COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995 in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
