BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 7. Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov highlighted the country's COP29 presidency at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow, a source in the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan told Trend.
"Providing detailed information about the presidency in COP29, Bayramov noted that our country is engaged in extensive presidential activities to ensure that the negotiation process and the preparatory work we are conducting contribute significantly to global climate efforts," the source explained.
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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