BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 6. The Organization of Turkic States (OTS) is planning to work on creating a new platform that will combine religious and environmental topics, the organization's project director Ersin Aydoğan said at a panel discussion on the second day of the Baku Global Summit of Religious Leaders, Trend reports.
He emphasized that three years ago, cooperation in the religious sphere was launched at the initiative of the Caucasus Muslims Department of Azerbaijan.
“Recalling that the environmental ministers of the OTS countries will meet for the first time this month, they identified a new area of cooperation - climate.
Inspired by this Global Forum of Religious Leaders, we will try to create a new platform that will unite religious and environmental topics,” he added.
To note, the Global Summit of Religious Leaders, organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the State Committee for Work with Religious Entities, the Muslim Council of Elders, the Caucasus Muslims Office, and the UN Environment Programme, continues its work in Baku within the framework of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29).
This global forum is attended by approximately 30 leaders from both secular and traditional religions, heads of prominent religious centers (including patriarchs, officials from the Vatican, and Al-Azhar), internationally recognized religious and public figures from a variety of faiths and regions, representatives from government, academia, and religious institutions from 55 countries and 30 international organizations, and media representatives.
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