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IOC MEDIATING ARMENIA'S PARTICIPATION IN EUROPEAN GAMES
Sportskeeda
Oct 10 2014
Yerevan (Armenia), Oct 9 (IANS) International Olympic Committee (IOC)
president Thomas Bach has reportedly met Armenian president Serzh
Sarkisian to discuss the possibility of Armenia's participation in the
first-ever European Games that will be hosted by Azerbaijan next year.
Bach arrived here Wednesday with a delegation that included Patrick
Hickey, president of European Olympic Committee (EOC), which has
decided to hold Europe's biggest-ever multi-sport event in Baku in
June 2015, reports Xinhua. The main purpose of their two-day trip
is to discuss ways of boosting IOC's ties with the Armenian National
Olympic Committee, according to azatutyun.am.
Armenia is yet to decide whether or not to send its athletes to
the Baku Games given its unresolved bitter conflict with Azerbaijan
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Azerbaijan government publicly
pledged to guarantee their safety late last month.
"Thomas Bach assured that both IOC and EOC will make every effort
to ensure that Armenian people are satisfied with the results of
the negotiations and that necessary conditions for their athletes
and coaches are put in place in the host country," the Azerbaijan
government office said in a statement.
The statement added Bach and Sarkisian agreed that "politicising
sports is inadmissible".
http://www.sportskeeda.com/athletics/ioc-mediating-armenias-participation-in-european-games
Sportskeeda
Oct 10 2014
Yerevan (Armenia), Oct 9 (IANS) International Olympic Committee (IOC)
president Thomas Bach has reportedly met Armenian president Serzh
Sarkisian to discuss the possibility of Armenia's participation in the
first-ever European Games that will be hosted by Azerbaijan next year.
Bach arrived here Wednesday with a delegation that included Patrick
Hickey, president of European Olympic Committee (EOC), which has
decided to hold Europe's biggest-ever multi-sport event in Baku in
June 2015, reports Xinhua. The main purpose of their two-day trip
is to discuss ways of boosting IOC's ties with the Armenian National
Olympic Committee, according to azatutyun.am.
Armenia is yet to decide whether or not to send its athletes to
the Baku Games given its unresolved bitter conflict with Azerbaijan
over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Azerbaijan government publicly
pledged to guarantee their safety late last month.
"Thomas Bach assured that both IOC and EOC will make every effort
to ensure that Armenian people are satisfied with the results of
the negotiations and that necessary conditions for their athletes
and coaches are put in place in the host country," the Azerbaijan
government office said in a statement.
The statement added Bach and Sarkisian agreed that "politicising
sports is inadmissible".
http://www.sportskeeda.com/athletics/ioc-mediating-armenias-participation-in-european-games