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From the 'Black City' to the White City: Baku takes advantage of COP29 to cleanse its past as the world's first oil capital

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A century and a half after Baku became the world's first oil city, President Ilham Aliyev is transforming the city into the gleaming White City .

A succession of beige-colored mansard houses turns the place into a poor imitation of Paris , the city that the First Lady, Mehriban Aliyeva , aspires to emulate.

But nothing is as it seems in Baku , which strives to project the air of a modern city but carries the weight of the past in its wide and devastating Stalinist avenues, in the Soviet -era blocks.

Deputy Nigar Arpardarai was chosen for the occasion as a high-level champion of climate in the pompous UN jargon.

"We are a country of gas and oil, this is our history, and we have no reason to be ashamed," he says.

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