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.
