ASTANA, Kazakhstan, November 12. Kazakhstan is striving to strengthen friendly ties and mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation with Guinea-Bissau, said President Tokayev during his meeting with the President of Guinea-Bissau, Trend reports.
On the margins of the 29th UN Climate Change Conference, the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with the President of Guinea-Bissau, Oumaru Sisoku Embalo.
The President called Guinea-Bissau one of Kazakhstan's significant partners on the African continent.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev noted that Kazakhstan is an open country, adhering to a peace-loving policy and having the largest economy in the region. He emphasized that the two countries have good prospects for partnership.
Despite their geographic distance, Kazakhstan and Guinea-Bissau can develop cooperation in agriculture, logistics, and information and communication technologies, Tokayev said.
In turn, Umaru Sisoku Embalo expressed gratitude to the President of Kazakhstan for the opportunity to discuss the development of bilateral relations.
In conclusion, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev invited President Umaru Sisoku Embalo to pay an official visit to Kazakhstan at a time convenient for him.
To note, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), which will run until November 22, opened on November 11 at the Baku Olympic Stadium.
The event is the largest organized by Azerbaijan to date and is the first time the region has hosted the event in Azerbaijan. Within COP29, the highest-level event - the summit of world leaders on climate action - will be held on November 12–13.
The main expectation from COP29 is to agree on a fair and ambitious New Collective Quantitative Goal (NCQG) on climate finance. The COP29 chairmanship has launched 14 initiatives that include linkages between climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals, including green energy corridors, green energy storage, harmony for climate resilience, clean hydrogen, methane reduction in organic waste, action on green digital technologies, and other topics.
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