“We witnessed clear attempts to cover up the matter,” said President Ilham Aliyev,who wants Russia to accept its guilt and to punish those responsible.
Flight J2-8243 crashed in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from southern Russia. At least 38 people were killed.
Twenty-nine people miraculously survived the Azerbaijani Airlines crash on Christmas Day. Three retell their horrifying tale.
The plane with 67 on board had veered wildly off course,then crashed while returning from a Russian area struck by Ukraine. Twenty-nine people survived.
The funding will help poorer countries deal with the impacts of climate change,with rich countries leading the payments.
This year,it is the tiny petrostate of Azerbaijan,next year giant Brazil,and if the Albanese government gets its way,Australia will be next in line to host the climate Olympics.
President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials in the helicopter had been missing for more than 12 hours when rescuers spotted the wreckage.
This week,the tropical Pacific holiday destination erupted amid tensions with the French government in Paris over voting rights.
Azerbaijan had invited separatists from the French territories last year,resulting in a group whose stated aim is to support “French liberation and anti-colonialist movements”.
After a nearly three-decade bid for independence,the unrecognised republic at the centre of a geopolitical fight is no more.