COP17 President Matevosyan attends opening of China’s pavilion

COP17 President Hambardzum Matevosyan, Armenia’s Minister of Environment, attended the opening ceremony of China’s pavilion in the COP17 Blue Zone and delivered a speech.

Armenia’s Ministry of Environment said in a statement that Matevosyan highly praised China’s leading role in the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, emphasizing the need to translate joint commitments into national policies and action.

Matevosyan highlighted the importance of the pavilion as a platform for exchanging experience in biodiversity conservation and establishing new partnerships.

“Our journey from Kunming to Yerevan is a path from commitment to action. May this pavilion become a place where we continue this journey together,” the minister said.

The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is being held in conjunction with the 12th meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CP-MOP-12) and the sixth meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (NP-MOP-6). COP17 marks the first global review of collective progress toward implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).