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Aze Media (12 November 2024)

Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, addressed Armenia's claim that "Azerbaijan, as an oil-producing country, should not host COP29."

In a statement to journalists, Hajiyev noted that in the history of COP summits, nearly all host countries—apart from Switzerland—are linked to fossil fuel production in some way.

“The other side of this issue is that while there may be a supply of fossil fuels from one side, there is also demand on the other. One could say that all parties under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are consumers of fossil fuels. What we see here are elements of shallow populism. The world today has real needs, and fossil fuels are a part of our current reality. Of course, this has negative impacts on climate change, but the solution is to work together to address it, not to engage in cheap and pointless debates,” Hajiyev emphasized.

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