While l’Œuvre d’Orient is calling for a boycott of COP29, taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan form 11 to 22 November 2024, Pax Christi International – who is not attending COP29 – is hoping the Summit in Baku would contribute to progress in the field of climate justice and the fight against climate change, as well as the call for justice and human rights for all –including Armenians and other peoples.
Martha Inés Romero, Pax Christi International Secretary-General, Bishop (Em.) Marc Stenger from France, Pax-Christi International Co-President, and Alejandro García, PCI Latin America Programme Officer, participated in COP16 on Biodiversity in Cali, Colombia, where they awarded the Pax Christi International 2024 Peace Award to the Justice and Peace Commission of Haiti and to a Peruvian Carmelite sister, Gladis Montesinos, who is working for the indigenous Tsimani people in Bolivia.
“Global warming is a real problem that requires major efforts from the international community”, insits Orry Van de Wauwer, Director of Pax Christi Vlaanderen: “It is important to take steps forward in Baku to try to counter global warming. We will therefore not be committing ourselves to a total boycott of COP29.”
Not boycotting COP29 does not mean Pax Christi International is indifferent to the plea of Armenian people. The movement supports the aim of this appeal by ‘Œuvre d’Orient, which is to make the international community aware of the “ethnic cleansing” of Nagorno-Karabakh by the Azeris. A number of Christian organisations, including Pax Christi Vlaanderen, took part in the rallies for the Armenian cause on Tuesday 5 November at the Trocadéro in Paris and in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.
Read the full article by Benoît Lannoo in French.
