“For the first time since the Paris Agreement in 2015, […] a COP will be held in the absence of a high French representative”, summary Politico. While the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had already announced his absence from the conference being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, it is the turn of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, to withdraw from the conference. 'event.
This decision, announced Wednesday November 13, follows a speech given in the morning by Ilham Aliev, described as“Azerbaijani autocrat” by the European media. Aliyev took advantage of a gathering of island states “to slam France and the Netherlands for their 'colonial rule', which he linked to climate change”, explain Politico.
“A long series of controversies”
The Azerbaijani president notably “denounced the 'environmental degradation' caused by France in territories that he describes as ‘colonies’in reference to the nuclear tests carried out in French Polynesia and Algeria”, before accusing Emmanuel Macron of being “responsible for the explosions of violence that New Caledonia has experienced this year”.
The Brussels-based newspaper also recalls that “the outcry over the accusations
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