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This month Azerbaijan is hosting Cop29 , the UN ’s annual global climate summit.

Margaret Thatcher became the first Western leader to visit Azerbaijan in 1992 .

The country's treatment of journalists and activists has been described as appalling’ by Human Rights Watch .

Azerbaijan is ranked at 164 of 180 on the Press Freedom Index.

Of this, 1.5bn worth of property was bought by Russians accused of corruption or with links to the Kremlin .

The state needs to be equipped to deal with these “bad actors” postdiscovery but the situation in the UK ’s legal system makes that difficult.

Public funding for justice in England and Wales has declined by 22 per cent since 2010 .