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“We determined to withdraw our delegation and reevaluate our place, nothing extra,” Werthein mentioned. “I believe it’s a sovereign proper.”
The Argentinian embassy in Baku didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Argentinian President Javier Milei has described local weather change and the worldwide effort to include it as a “socialist lie.”
On Thursday, he met with Trump on the incoming president’s Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida. Milei was the primary head of state Trump acquired in particular person since profitable the Nov. 5 election.
During his marketing campaign, Trump mentioned he would withdraw the United States from the Paris deal. The U.S. left briefly throughout Trump’s first time period. But no different nations adopted.
Trump’s election and the exit of Argentina’s diplomats have solid a shadow over this yr’s COP, which is looking for a significant new deal to assist growing nations, together with Argentina, finance clear power and shield themselves from excessive climate.
Speaking to reporters in Baku about Milei’s order for Argentina’s negotiating workforce to depart the talks, the EU’s lead negotiator Jacob Werksman mentioned: “It is worrying. It’s after all regarding every time any party leaves the method.”
Zia Weise contributed to this report from Baku.
