Ambassador: Azerbaijan to benefit from Pakistan’s experience for hosting COP29 in Baku

Ambassador of Azerbaijan Khazar Farhadov on January 17 said that the Central Asian Republic would benefit from the brotherly country of Pakistan in hosting the 29th Conference of the Parties in Baku.

He was addressing the climate change roundtable on “Shaping Tomorrow’s Resilience”, organized by the Center of Pakistan and International Relations (COPAIR), Associated Press of Pakistan reports.

The Azerbaijani envoy presented a detailed overview of his country’s commitment to achieving environmental sustainability and ensuring inclusive interventions for a just energy transition by embracing clean renewable energy.

He said the people of Pakistan were very kind and the Azerbaijani nation equally reciprocated the same sentiments for Pakistan as a brotherly country.

His country was trying to move together with Pakistan on the issue of COP-29 hosting as the latter had experience and bagged great global acclaim due to its environmental conservation initiatives, he added.

The envoy said that Pakistan like many other natural resource-rich countries was portrayed negatively, however, it was the global diplomatic fraternity’s personal experience that changed their perspective about Pakistan.

“Any nation rich in resources will be criticized by the West bearing double standards. Like Azerbaijan’s territory’s occupation-related resolution was adopted which was supported by Pakistan. Azerbaijan took tangible steps in the past two decades. It alone implemented the UNSC resolution and got moral and political support from Pakistan and Turkiye.

“We chaired the nonalignment movement conference and raised voices for nationalization of vaccines,” he said.

Ambassador Farhadov said Azerbaijan would successfully host COP-29 and would cooperate with Pakistan as it was a traditional diplomatic norm between the two brotherly countries including cooperation in peace, security and development-related matters.

He underscored that the private sector was important and without it, there was no concept of economic development. “It is the driving force that needs designated facilities to contribute to its country’s development.”