COP29 host Azerbaijan hits out at West in defense of oil and gas - NBC News
1 day ago · Nov. 13, 2024, 2:25 AM PST / Source: Reuters. By Reuters. The president of Azerbaijan, host of this year’s U.N. climate summit, lashed out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas ...
COP 29: World leaders converge for United Nations annual climate ...
3 days ago · Host Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev kicked off two scheduled days of world leaders’ speeches by lambasting Armenia, western news media, climate activists and critics who highlighted his country’s rich oil and gas history and trade, calling them hypocritical since the United States is the world’s biggest oil producer.
COP29: UN climate talks 'no longer fit for purpose' say experts - BBC
1 day ago · At the start of COP29, the country’s authoritarian leader, Ilham Aliyev, defended Azerbaijan’s current exports of gas and plans to expand production by a third in the next decade.
COP29: Azerbaijan accused of ramping up repression of critics | AP News
3 days ago · President Ilham Aliyev and his administration are accused by human rights organizations of spearheading an intensifying crackdown on freedom of speech ahead of the climate summit, including against climate activists and journalists. Aliyev’s father, Haidar, ruled Azerbaijan from 1993 until he died in 2003 and Ilham took over.
COP29: Oil and gas 'gift of god', says host Azerbaijan president
The president of COP29’s host country has told the UN climate conference that oil and gas are a "gift of God". Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev criticised "Western fake news" about the ...
Azerbaijan president hails oil and gas as 'gift from God' as he ...
2 days ago · Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev kicked off the climate conference with a wide-ranging speech in which he hit out at critics of his country's fossil fuel industries. ... "The good news is [the ...
COP29 host Azerbaijan brands oil and gas ‘gift from God’
2 days ago · “Fake news media of the country which is (the) number one oil and gas producer in the world and produces 30 times more oil than Azerbaijan, call us ‘petrostate’,” Aliyev said. “They ...
Azerbaijan holds a parliamentary election expected to retain the ...
Sep 1, 2024 · Polls closed Sunday evening in Azerbaijan's snap parliamentary election, the first since it regained full control of Karabakh, a former breakaway territory, in a lightning offensive last year.
Azerbaijan halts Karabakh offensive after ceasefire deal with ... - BBC
Sep 21, 2023 · Ilham Aliyev praised the heroism of Azerbaijan's army hours after Karabakh forces agreed to surrender. Some 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in the South Caucasus enclave, recognised...
Azerbaijan’s ruling party on course for narrow victory, exit poll …
Sep 1, 2024 · Azerbaijan’s ruling party is on course for the narrowest of victories in a snap parliamentary election called by President Ilham Aliyev, according to an exit poll.
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