If countries cannot agree on a host for 2024, the summit will default to Germany under the rules of the U.N. climate body.
shrugs
I mean, that works. Germany’s gonna have said infrastructure for having a summit, and it sounds like Russia can’t block it from being held in Germany. It’s probably annoying to Azerbaijan from a diplomatic standpoint, but I don’t think that it actually hurts them much, unless they’ve already put money into setting up hosting.
A statement from the prime minister’s office in Armenia said that as a good-will measure to repair relations between the two warring countries, it would release two Azerbaijani soldiers and endorse its bid to host COP29 in exchange for 32 of its own soldiers held by Azerbaijan. Bulgaria prepared to drop its bid. Azerbaijani diplomats were congratulating one another.
I think in terms of a good-will gesture, it probably already worked. Armenia and Azerbaijan said that they were willing to work together. If Russia blocks the actual event, it’s not like it erases that.
Maybe line up some other summit that Russia isn’t in the loop on to happen in Azerbaijan.
shrugs
I mean, that works. Germany’s gonna have said infrastructure for having a summit, and it sounds like Russia can’t block it from being held in Germany. It’s probably annoying to Azerbaijan from a diplomatic standpoint, but I don’t think that it actually hurts them much, unless they’ve already put money into setting up hosting.
I think in terms of a good-will gesture, it probably already worked. Armenia and Azerbaijan said that they were willing to work together. If Russia blocks the actual event, it’s not like it erases that.
Maybe line up some other summit that Russia isn’t in the loop on to happen in Azerbaijan.