{"id":306085,"date":"2026-10-16T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=306085"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:38:19","slug":"is-cop17-an-environmental-or-a-political-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/306085\/","title":{"rendered":"Is COP17 an environmental or a political conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Guests arriving in golf carts, the Security Council Secretary taking a phone call from Aliyev&rsquo;s aide, Turkey&rsquo;s Minister of Agriculture visiting Yerevan, and Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s statement on halting deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of COP17 was accompanied not only by environmental messages, but also by political ones.<\/p>\n<p>However, the biodiversity conference agenda failed to address the issues of Artsakh&rsquo;s forests, the damage caused by the war, and the operation of the Amulsar mine.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video_container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COP17-&#1384; &#1412;&#1377;&#1394;&#1377;&#1412;&#1377;&#1391;&#1377;&#1374;&#1398;, &#1385;&#1381;&#1374; &#1378;&#1398;&#1377;&#1402;&#1377;&#1392;&#1402;&#1377;&#1398;&#1377;&#1391;&#1377;&#1398; &#1392;&#1377;&#1396;&#1377;&#1386;&#1400;&#1394;&#1400;&#1406;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_6FLNejoyE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests arriving in golf carts, the Security Council Secretary taking a phone call from Aliyev&rsquo;s aide, Turkey&rsquo;s Minister of Agriculture visiting Yerevan, and Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s statement on halting deforestation. The opening of COP17 was accompanied not only by environmental messages, but also by political ones. However, the biodiversity conference agenda failed to address the issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":305663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-reports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306086,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306085\/revisions\/306086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}