PARIS: France’s Surroundings Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher will avoid the COP29 international local weather change convention in Baku after “unacceptable” assaults by Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev, she stated Wednesday (Nov 13).
Aliyev had accused France of “crimes” and “human rights violations” in abroad territories together with New Caledonia within the south Pacific, the place 13 folks have been killed this 12 months in protests that broke out in Might over a contested voting reform.
“President Aliyev’s phrases towards France and Europe because the COP29 opened in Baku are unacceptable,” Pannier-Runacher instructed the French Senate (higher home).
Azerbaijan’s chief was utilizing “the battle towards local weather change for a shameful private agenda,” she added.
Aliyev had earlier charged that “the regime of President (Emmanuel) Macron killed 13 folks and wounded 169 … throughout professional protests by the Kanak folks in New Caledonia”.
