UN General Assembly president to visit Azerbaijan for COP29

Philemon Yang, President of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly and former Prime Minister of Cameroon, will pay a visit to Azerbaijan.

Mariam Shaikh, a Communications Adviser to the President of the UN General Assembly, said that Yang will travel to Baku to participate in the COP29 conference, which will be held under Azerbaijan's chairmanship on November 11-22 this year, Caliber.Az reports per local media.

He accepted the invitation from the Azerbaijani government and will attend the opening ceremony of COP29.

The adviser also noted that Yang will participate in high-level events and discussions, as well as hold a number of meetings during the conference.

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will take place in Azerbaijan this November. This decision was made during the COP28 plenary session in Dubai on December 11, 2023. Baku is expected to welcome approximately 70,000 to 80,000 international attendees over the two-week event.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, aims to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The COP, or “Conference of the Parties,” is the highest decision-making body responsible for overseeing the implementation of the UNFCCC, which has 198 member states. Unless otherwise decided, the COP convenes annually; the first COP was held in Berlin in March 1995, with its secretariat based in Bonn.

By Vafa Guliyeva