India will preside over the eighth edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) to WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) which will be held in Switzerland's Geneva in 2018 Health Secretary C K Mishra has been chosen as the President of the COP Bureau for the next two years after a unanimous decision by the COP7 Plenary session on Saturday, a senior health ministry official said "India will preside the eighth edition of the Convention of Parties of WHO which will be held in Geneva," the official said The World Health Organisations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the world's biggest convention to frame the anti-tobacco policies The Seventh Session of COP7 to WHO FCTC was hosted by India for the first time and culminated on Saturday. About 1,500 delegates participated in the conference from around 180 countries along with other observers in official relations with the WHO FCTC Secretariat in Geneva.