Armenia will host the next United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP17). The UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity broke the news on X.
“Armenia is set to welcome the upcoming UN Biodiversity conference, reinforcing its commitment to global biodiversity conservation,” it said.
Parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) voted in Colombia Thursday for its next Conference of Parties (COP), in 2026, to be held in Armenia, which had vied for the privilege with foe Azerbaijan.
Armenia won with 65 votes out of 123 cast in a secret ballot at the CBD’s 16th Conference of Parties (COP16), winding down in the city of Cali, the meeting’s president Susana Muhamad announced.
Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan attended COP16 conference in Colombia.