Environment Minister Yasmin Fouad headed on Thursday for Addis Ababa to attend ministerial meetings of the high-level conference for Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific to discuss the outcome of UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild (CITES COP19) held at the premises of the African Union on May 30 until June 2 in the presence of a number ministers and representatives of international authorities or organizations.
Before her departure, Fouad said that the conference comes at an important time to build on the progress witnessed in 2022 with a number of outcomes and historic resolutions of the conference and international and regional incidents related to environment and climate action including COP27, COP15, COP14 and CITES COP19.
The conference will provide a great change to build on the progress achieved in the efforts that aim at maintaining global biological diversity recently, Fouad said.
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