Pashinyan arrives in Antalya for COP31 summit and joins world leaders’ group photo

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrived in Türkiye on a working visit to attend the UN climate conference COP31 in Antalya and joined the summit leaders’ group photo.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrived in Türkiye on a working visit to attend the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31), the press service of the Armenian government said.

Pashinyan was welcomed at Antalya Airport by Serdar Çam, Türkiye’s deputy minister of culture and tourism.

Group photo of COP31 summit leaders in Antalya

On Wednesday, Pashinyan joined other heads of state and government for a group photo at the COP31 leaders’ summit, which opened under the chairmanship of Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

More than 100 leaders are taking part in the summit, including Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Armenia and Türkiye have been engaged in dialogue on normalizing relations in recent years, and Pashinyan has previously visited Türkiye.