The COP29 UN climate summit will be held in Azerbaijan in November and the Kremlin has confirmed that Vladimir Putin is considering attending the event. But Ukraine’s ambassador to the EU, Vsevolod Chentsov, has already said that the international community should avoid attending the Baku climate meeting if the Russian president also attends.
“We need to apply pressure and our partners need to make it clear to Azerbaijan that if Putin is there, they will not come.” — said the Ukrainian ambassador to the EU in an interview with Politico.
Chentsov’s comments came after media reports suggested Putin was considering participating in the annual UN climate summit.
EADaily Reminds you that the event begins on November 11. But the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitri Peskov He stated that a decision on Putin’s participation has not yet been made.
In meetings with the leaders of Western countries, kyiv periodically recalls the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Vladimir Putin. But the Russian leader, despite all the cries of Ukrainian politicians, recently visited the United Arab Emirates, where oil negotiations were held, and also visited Mongolia. Azerbaijan is not a member of the ICC; the last time Putin came to Baku in August and met with Ilham Aliyev.
The European media also complains about “Aliyev’s Azerbaijan”which, as the Estonian ERR.EE reports, “It also has human rights problems”.
“The country’s huge oil and gas revenues benefit a privileged elite and not the general population due to widespread corruption,” – write the source
“Aliyev himself has been in power since 2003, when he replaced his father in this position. Therefore, his experience is somewhat less than Putin’s, since the latter headed the Russian government already in the early 2000s.” —summarizes the post.
