The French local weather minister’s withdrawal method Paris is not going to ship any high-level political consultant to Baku, as French President Emmanuel Macron will even skip the development.
The verdict signifies that for the primary time for the reason that 2015 Paris Settlement — which France helped engineer and has since strongly defended — a COP will happen with out senior French management.
The dispute additionally deepens a rising rift between France and Azerbaijan over Paris’ army strengthen for Baku’s historical rival, Armenia.
The COP spat kicked off Wednesday morning, when Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani autocrat, used a meeting of island leaders to lambast France and the Netherlands for his or her “neocolonialism,” which he connected to local weather exchange. | Sean Gallup/Getty Photographs
The COP spat kicked off Wednesday morning, when Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani autocrat, used a meeting of island leaders to lambast France and the Netherlands for his or her “neocolonialism,” which he connected to local weather exchange.
“The so-called in a foreign country territories of France and Netherlands, in particular within the Caribbean and the Pacific, are a few of the maximum significantly impacted” through local weather exchange, Aliyev instructed the leaders’ summit of small island creating international locations at COP29. “The voices of those communities are continuously brutally suppressed through the regimes.”
Aliyev claimed that France had brought about “environmental degradation” within the territories, which he described as “colonies,” bringing up the nuclear checks in French Polynesia and Algeria. He additionally accused French President Emmanuel Macron’s executive of being accountable for the violent outbursts in New Caledonia previous this yr.
