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(FILES) Schoolchildren wearing traditional dresses wave an Azerbaijani flag during the annual Day of Reading event outside the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in Baku on April 26, 2018. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on December 7, 2023 called snap presidential elections in February, in a move expected to further extend the decades-long authoritarian rule of his family. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP). Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Azerbaijan has named minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev as president of the COP29 climate conference to be held in November in Baku, an official told AFP on Friday.
Babayev, currently minister for ecology and natural resources and formerly an executive at state oil company SOCAR, "has been named president-designate for the 29th session of the conference of the parties," senior ministry official Rashad Allahverdiyev told AFP in an email.
