BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 13. France’s Green Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher will reportedly not attend the COP29 summit in Baku, after sharp remarks from Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who highlighted France's "hypocrisy" on international issues, Trend reports.
President Aliyev’s address at COP29 openly criticized what he described as France’s double standards. This has evidently stung Paris, leading to the minister’s decision to skip the global climate event, a move viewed as an attempt by France to downplay Baku's role in the summit. France has unsuccessfully called for a boycott of COP29 from the start, even as the climate crisis impacts the entire world, including France.
At COP29’s opening ceremony on November 12, President Aliyev underscored the event’s overwhelming success despite these efforts, revealing that 72,000 participants from 196 countries had registered, a clear answer to France’s attempted boycott.