The New British monarch, King Charles III has announced that he will not be travelling to next month’s United Nations climate summit in Egypt and this information had been confirmed by Buckingham Palace on Sunday after the United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss had reportedly “objected” to the keen environmentalist attending.
Britain’s new monarch, who had also taken the throne when his mother Queen Elizabeth II died last month, had also intended to deliver a speech to most of the world leaders who would be gathering at the COP27 summit on November 6-18, the Sunday Times reported.
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But the plan has been axed after Truss — who was appointed prime minister by the late queen just two days before the latter died had opposed it during a personal audience with Charles which had been made at the palace last month.
Queen Elizabeth had also addressed the last United Nations climate summit in November 2021, with the blessing of the Tory government which had been led by Truss’s predecessor Boris Johnson.
Charles III’s office appeared to distance itself from the incendiary newspaper report, insisting the king had sought Truss’s advice.
“With mutual friendship and respect there was agreement that the king would not attend,” it told the BBC.
The Sunday Times story comes amid speculation Britain’s new leader — already under fire over her economic plans which have sparked market turmoil — could controversially scale back the country’s legally binding climate commitments.
In another report, the President of Russia, President Vladimir Putin on Sunday morning offered his ‘sincerest congratulations’ to Britain’s King Charles III after he was officially proclaimed the new monarch at a pomp-filled ceremony in London on Saturday.
Putin in a telegram addressed to the new king which was obtained by Africa Today News, New York, said; ‘Please receive my sincerest congratulations on your accession to the throne, I wish Your Majesty success, robust health, and above all the best.’
The Kremlin went on to state that the Russian federation wishes the new Monarch the very best on the throne.