BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 6. A roundtable event titled "Information warfare: the nature and goals of information attacks against Azerbaijan ahead of COP29" has taken place at Baku State University (BSU), Trend reports.
The event was organized by BSU and the Press Council of Azerbaijan.
The roundtable speakers included BSU Rector Elchin Babayev, Chairman of the Press Council of Azerbaijan Rashad Majid, Deputy Executive Director of the Media Development Agency Natiq Mammadli, Dean of the BSU Journalism Faculty and Deputy Chairman of the Press Council Vugar Zifaroghlu, Chief Editor of the Sharg Newspaper Akif Ashirli, and others.
Attendees of the event discussed how the country has frequently seen the media war being launched against Azerbaijan on the eve of COP29.
To note, next week, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be kicking off in Azerbaijan, the decision of which was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai in December last year.
The UN 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 (Conference of Parties) means “Conference of Parties” and 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 otherwise decided by the parties, COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in March 1995 in Germany's Berlin with its secretariat in Bonn.
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