Host of the COP29 Climate Talks Is Raining on His Own Parade
Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev has been praising fossil fuel and taking shots at geopolitical rivals, casting a cloud over ...
Azerbaijan’s leader takes a wrecking ball to his own climate talks as calls rise for total ‘overhaul’
From the moment the US election results rolled in, climate leaders knew Donald Trump would be a blow to the COP29 talks in ...
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Azerbaijan’s president urges countries with 'colonial past' to help small island nations in fight against climate crisis
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday called on former colonial powers to assist small island nations in the fight against climate change. “I call all developed countries, especially ...
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Azerbaijan's Aliyev lashes France's colonial 'crimes' in New Caledonia
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev lashed out on Wednesday at the "crimes" of France in its overseas territories like New ...
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Oil and gas are gift of god, Azerbaijan president tells climate summit
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Azerbaijan president lauds fossil fuels, knifes Western ‘hypocrisy’ in COP29 opener
BAKU, Azerbaijan — The petrostate autocrat and host of this year’s COP29 climate talks, Ilham Aliyev, used his opening address to gripe at hypocritical Western governments who buy his gas and lecture ...
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Azerbaijan’s megaprojects have changed energy, transportation maps of Eurasia: Aliyev
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday that the country’s megaprojects have changed Eurasia’s energy and transportation maps, as he addressed a leaders summit part of the UN ...
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Azerbaijan president hails oil and gas as 'gift from God' as he lambasts climate activists in COP29 opening speech
President Ilham Aliyev kicked off the conference with a wide-ranging, critical speech in which he hit out at those opposed to his country's oil and gas industries. In his keynote address at COP29 ...
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Azerbaijan’s president slams ‘colonial’ French, Dutch overseas territories at COP29
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani autocrat, used a gathering of island leaders at this year’s COP29 climate talks to attack France and the Netherlands for maintaining overseas ...
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Azerbaijan President Aliyev blasts France for reaction to New Caledonia protests
President Ilham Aliyev alleged that France's handling of protests in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, in May, constituted 'crimes' and 'human rights violations.' France has ...
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Oil and gas are 'gift from God', Azerbaijan president tells Cop29 climate summit
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a keynote speech at the Cop29 climate summit to lash out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas industry, saying it had been the victim of a ...