Uzbekistan's president wishes Azerbaijan success in hosting COP29

Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has extended best wishes to Azerbaijan for the successful hosting of upcoming 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29). 

"Once again, I sincerely congratulate and wish great success to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as the COP29 conference will begin in Baku next week," President Mirziyoyev said at the summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Turkic Council (OTG) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Caliber.Az reports via local media. 

The president emphasised that to address pressing environmental challenges related to climate change, Uzbekistan believes it is essential to expedite the establishment of the Turkic Environmental Council at the ministerial level.

"We are ready to host its first meeting in Uzbekistan next year," he stated.

Baku will host the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in a few days. The decision to hold COP29 in Baku was made during the COP28 plenary session in Dubai on December 11, 2023.  

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will be held in Azerbaijan this November. This decision was made at the COP28 plenary session in Dubai on December 11, 2023. 

During two weeks, Baku will become a global hub, welcoming around 70,000 to 80,000 international guests. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, aimed at preventing dangerous human interference with the climate system. 

The abbreviation COP means "Conference of the Parties" and refers to the highest decision-making body responsible for overseeing the implementation of the UNFCCC. The Convention has 198 member states. Unless otherwise decided by the parties, the COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in Berlin in March 1995, and its secretariat is based in Bonn.

By Naila Huseynova