Azerbaijan to join European Olympic Committee meeting
Azerbaijan's Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov will participate at the 35th European Olympic Committee Meeting to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus on May 23.
The two-day event will be attended by members of the Executive Committee, Presidents of forty-nine National Olympic Committees, General Secretaries, heads of delegations and other officials, AzerTag State News Agency reported.
The report on European Games to be held in Baku, 2015 will be presented at the meeting.
Europe's first senior multi-sport event will consist of more than 6,000 athletes from the 49 countries affiliated to the European Olympic Committees competing in 19 sports in Baku on June 12-28.
The Baku Games' program includes aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, basketball 3x3, beach soccer, boxing, canoe sprint, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, judo, karate, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, volleyball, and wrestling.
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