Right-wing president Javier Milei has withdrawn Argentina ’s delegation from the Cop29 UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The decision, confirmed by delegate officials, means the South American country will not participate any further in the UN climate negotiations that are expected to conclude with a treaty next week.

Argentine delegates at the COP29 United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, have been ordered to withdraw from negotiations and return home, according to a source at the country’s foreign ministry.

Right-wing President Javier Milei is considering withdrawing Argentina from the Paris climate agreement. Donald Trump has pledged to also remove the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump is facing mounting pressure from allies to stay in the Paris Agreement. The Paris climate agreement, adopted in 2015 and signed in 2016 by nearly all countries on Earth, is a large-scale effort to reduce carbon emissions to halt global warming.

One of Donald Trump’s closest international allies has advised him against withdrawing from the Paris global climate pact that America signed in 2015. Asked whether Israel supported the U.S. president-elect’s plan to leave the Paris Agreement,