Serdar Berdimuhamedow attends UN Biodiversity Leaders Summit in Yerevan

Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedow attended the Leaders Summit held in Yerevan, Armenia, within the framework of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP17). After a working visit to Azerbaijan on 15 October, the president flew from Baku to Armenia and landed at Yerevan's international airport. He was welcomed there by Armenian officials and members of the Turkmen delegation.

The motorcade then went to the Meridian exhibition and events centre, where the summit took place. There, the president met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and UN Secretary-General António Guterres and posed together for photographs. In his speech, he thanked Pashinyan for the high level of organisation and said Turkmenistan supports the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

He pointed to ecosystems stretching from the Karakum desert to the Caspian Sea coast and said Turkmenistan's 2026–2035 national biodiversity strategy and action plan are key tools for this work. Turkmenistan has also repeatedly put forward proposals for a regional climate technology centre in Central Asia and a UN programme for the Aral Sea basin.