"Fridays for the Future": European politicians signed new gas deals with the Azerbaijani dictator under the guise of ethnic cleansing in Artsakh

ArmInfo. The Fridays For Future 

movement responded to the UN climate summit (COP29) being held in 

Azerbaijan

Thus, the initiative on its Instagram page, which has 443 thousand 

followers, notes that Azerbaijan exploited environmental protests as 

a front for starting the 9 months blockade of Artsakh/Nagorno- 

Karabagh, which resulted in a complete ethnic cleansing of the 

indigenous Armenian population and the continued destruction and 

re-appropriation of Armenian cultural heritage in the region.  While 

these events unfolded unnoticed by the international community, 

European politicians were signing new gas deals with the Azerbaijani 

dictator, whose family has been in power for three decades. 

Succeeding his father, Ilham Aliyev is ruling the country with his 

wife as vice-president", the initiative said in a statement.

At the same time, it is emphasized that these politicians and 

companies are complicit in the authoritarian regime, "greenwashing" 

of genocide."Around 40% of Israel's oil is imported from Azerbaijan, 

fueling war machines against Palestinians. In return, Azerbaijan 

receives 70% of its weapons from Israel for use against Armenians", 

Fridays for Future notes.

In this vein, it is added that civil society in Azerbaijan is 

oppressed tremendously and, according to the Freedom Index, 

Azerbaijan is consistently ranked among the most oppressive countries 

in the world.

"Azerbaijan is now threatening to start a new war against Armenia, 

calling the capital of Armenia "West Azerbaijan," the statement 

further reads.

At the same time, the initiative points to the key demands of 

Armenian civil society for the UN Climate Summit. In particular, the 

release of all political prisoners (both Azerbaijani and Armenian) 

and prisoners of war; guarantee the right of return and their safety 

for indigenous Armenian people to Artsakh by implementing 

international peacekeepers; guaranteeing safety for Armenia itself 

and the peace agreement; return of lands occupied during and after 

the 2020 war.  Fridays For Future is a youth-led and organized 

movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg 

and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament 

every school day for three weeks, to protest the lack of action on 

climate crisis. She posted what she was doing on Instagram and 

Twitter and it soon went viral.

By the following year, it had snowballed into a global movement 

involving some 4 million students in 150 countries. In June, Greta 

graduated,  marking the end of her school protest days. But the young 

activist's legacy lives on, with hundreds of strikes scheduled each 

Friday around the globe.

This is an international social movement of schoolchildren and 

students, whose participants demand "quick and decisive action" from 

politicians in the fight against global warming.