Security personnel from various UN offices to travel to Baku for COP29

More than 100 security personnel from UN headquarters and offices of individual divisions of the organization from New York, Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi will be involved in security activities at the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), which will be held in Baku in November this year, Kevin O'Hanlon, Deputy Chief of the Security and Safety Services at UN Headquarters, said in an interview with Report.

"There are different aspects to the conference and different zones in the conference. So, the UN zone will be the blue zone, which will be the footprint where the UN will be responsible for and within that zone I'm taking. I work with the United Nations Department of Safety and Security, and I'm bringing more than 100 security professionals from United Nations headquarters worldwide," he noted.

"So more than ten headquarters locations, from New York to Geneva, Vienna, Nairobi, and many other of our main headquarters locations, all professional security officers, all working this job in a full-time capacity. We will bring more than 100, and we will work within the venue with government security personnel and private security personnel to form one team of close to 1,000 people and we will be providing the security in the blue zone, for that in the UN zone. Of course, there is a green zone as well. And the government security authorities, the Azerbaijani authorities will be responsible for all the security in that, as well as security at the airport, in the hotels, and on the motorcade routes. So, it's a comprehensive plan. I have only one small part of it, that being the blue zone. But there is a comprehensive plan for the entire country and for the experience of all the guests and it's very well advanced," he said.