BAKU, Azerbaijan — The top official hosting the 29th annual United Nations “climate change” conference was caught on a secret recording trying to make gas deals with a fake Chinese investor, causing outrage among climate alarmists at the UN summit. One leading UN climate figure called it “treason” to the process.
Not the First Time
It was not the first time climate summits have been used by Big Government and Big Business to fleece the public and even make oil deals.
In fact, the latest scandal brings back memories of last year’s UN COP28 summit on the Arabian Peninsula. That confab brought some 80,000 participants to Dubai from around the world. There, Arab officials were caught making oil and gas deals with Communist China and various African and Latin American governments. Again, Western alarmists were outraged, but most of the world yawned.
Mocking the “fake news media” in the United States, Azerbaijan’s leader, Ilham Aliyev, said all natural resources are a blessing from the Creator and that countries should “not be blamed for having them” or for bringing them to market. He further declared that oil and hydrocarbon energy are a “gift of God.”
Speaking at the UN's COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, the country's president unapologetically referred to oil and gas as a "gift of God".
"Countries should not be blamed for having them, and should not be blamed for bringing these resources to the market, because the market… pic.twitter.com/ayRMqamkhT
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The “Scandal”
The new “scandal” widely drummed up by Western media involves the chief executive of Azerbaijan’s COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov. In a covertly taped exchange of the meeting, Soltanov was caught discussing “investment opportunities” in the petro-state’s government-owned oil and gas company, SOCAR, with an activist pretending to be a Chinese energy investor seeking to sponsor the COP and invest in Azerbaijan. […]
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