President of Int’l Olympic Academy to visit Baku
President of the International Olympic Academy t Isidoro Kouvelos will visit Baku on April 26-29, the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Diaspora reported on April 23.
Kouvelos will participate in the second 2nd Global Shared Societies Forum, to be held in Baku.
He repeatedly visited Azerbaijan and discussed the prospects of further relations between the academy and Azerbaijan with the relevant organizations, as well as the projects to be implemented by the academy as part of the Baku-2015 First European Games.
The academy, established in Greece in 1961, operates under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It systematically organizes workshops on philosophical and ideological problems of sport, history of the Olympic movement and other issues.
The Forum, organized by the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Diaspora, Nizami Ganjavi International Centre and Club de Madrid, will be held in Baku on April 28-29.
To be chaired by former Greek foreign minister, Chairperson-in-Office of the Council of Europe's Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy Dora Bakoyannis, the session will be attended by Turkey`s former FM Hikmet Cetin, Alexandria Library Director, co-chair of Nizami Ganjavi International Centre Ismail Serageldin, members of the Center Emil Constantinescu and Boris Tadic, and co-chair of Nizami Ganjavi International Centre, Club de Madrid President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga.