BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s vice premier, Ding Xuexiang, will travel to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to attend the COP29 climate summit next week, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday.
The meeting will focus on the issue of climate finance, with nearly 200 countries aiming to thrash out details of a new global fund to help developing countries tackle global warming.
Ding will be a special representative of President Xi Jinping at the leaders’ summit at COP29, which begins on Tuesday, Mao Ning, the spokesperson, told a briefing.
She did not say if Xi would attend, but leaders from several major economies have already confirmed they will not go to Baku next week, including U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Xi is set to speak at the APEC summit in Peru starting from Nov. 15, and will also attend a meeting of the Group of 20 nations in Brazil on Nov. 18, Mao said.
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