BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 23. President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has invited President of
Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the 29th session of the Conference
of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(COP29), which will be held in Baku in November, Ambassador of
Azerbaijan to Ukraine Seymur Mardaliyev said on X, Trend
reports.
Mardaliyev noted that he met with First Deputy Foreign Minister
of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha in Kyiv.
"I was honored to hand over the invitation letter of Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev addressed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy for participation in COP29 in Baku," the publication
says.
This November, Azerbaijan will host COP29. This
decision was made at the COP28 plenary meeting held in Dubai on
December 11 last year. Baku will become the center of the world and
will receive about 70–80,000 foreign guests.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change is an agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro
in June 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference with the
climate system. COP—the Conference of the Parties - is the highest
legislative body overseeing the implementation of the Framework
Convention on Climate Change. There are 198 countries that are
parties to the Convention. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the
COP is held annually. The first COP event took place in March 1995
in Berlin, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.
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