{"id":110082,"date":"2024-11-15T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=110082"},"modified":"2024-11-15T11:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:08:55","slug":"politico-ilham-aliyevs-fury-disrupts-the-un-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/110082\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICO: Ilham Aliyev’s fury disrupts the UN climate summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The EU warns that Ilham Aliyev’s combative rhetoric is undermining negotiations. The Azerbaijani autocrat opened this year’s global climate conference, known as COP29, with a rant against Western “hypocrisy.” Two days later, he tore into France and the Netherlands for what he described as “repression” and ongoing colonial rule.<\/p>\n

“Within hours, France’s top climate official canceled her trip to Baku,” POLITICO<\/a> writes. As noted, the direct attacks — highly unusual in the three-decade history of United Nations climate talks — have left senior foreign affairs officials questioning whether the petrostate president is actually committed to the delicate dance of getting 200 countries to find consensus.<\/p>\n

Aliyev’s remarks followed his controversial opening speech on Monday, in which he also praised fossil fuels as a “gift of the God.” He is also using the summit to strike gas deals.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU warns that Ilham Aliyev’s combative rhetoric is undermining negotiations. The Azerbaijani autocrat opened this year’s global climate conference, known as COP29, with a rant against Western “hypocrisy.” Two days later, he tore into France and the Netherlands for what he described as “repression” and ongoing colonial rule. “Within hours, France’s top climate official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":110072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}