BRUSSELS — The international community should shun the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan if Russian President Vladimir Putin attends, a top Ukrainian diplomat told POLITICO.
“We need to exert this pressure and our partners need to make it clear to Azerbaijan that, if Putin is there, they aren’t coming,” said Ukraine’s EU ambassador, Vsevolod Chentsov, in an interview.
Chentsov’s call comes after the Kremlin said Tuesday that Putin was considering attending the annual U.N.-backed climate gathering, which begins Nov. 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital.
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“A decision has not yet been made,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian state-run news outlet RIA Novosti.
