António Guterres Visits Armenia for Biodiversity Summit
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is visiting Yerevan to open a biodiversity summit ahead of the COP17 conference hosted by Armenia.
António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, is visiting Armenia on October 15–16 to participate in a high-level biodiversity summit in Yerevan. The visit serves as a precursor to the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17), which Armenia will host in the capital from October 19 to 30.
Guterres is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President Vahagn Khachaturyan. During the visit, he will attend the opening of the Leaders’ Summit on Biodiversity and present a report detailing global progress in biodiversity protection.
On October 16, Guterres will address world leaders to discuss the connections between environmental degradation, climate change, and global instability.
