BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, November 6. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has wished Azerbaijan a successful hosting of the upcoming COP29 Conference, Trend reports.
Speaking at the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Bishkek, the President of Uzbekistan noted: “Once again, I sincerely congratulate and wish great success to President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of the beginning of the COP29 Conference in Baku next week”.
Mirziyoyev added that in order to find solutions to acute environmental problems related to climate change, Uzbekistan considers it necessary to speed up the establishment of the Turkic Ecological Council at the ministerial level. “We are ready to hold its first meeting next year in Uzbekistan,” he noted.
To note, in a few days, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will start in Baku. The decision was made at the plenary meeting of COP28 held in Dubai on December 11 last year.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is an agreement signed at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference in the climate system. The acronym COP (Conference of Parties) stands for “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 Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.