CoE sports ministers to convene in Baku
BAKU – A meeting of the Council of Europe’s sports ministers will be held in Baku on September 21-22 to discuss major developments in sports, the Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Ministry said on Friday.
The decision to hold the next forum in Baku was adopted on December 11-12, 2008, in Athens, Greece, at the CE sports ministers’ conference.
The event will deal with Pan-European co-operation on sport as well as issues related to migration in sport and fight against doping and others. In addition, the ministers will discuss a Convention to combat hooliganism and fan violence at sports events and football matches.
The conference will bring together sports ministers and deputy ministers from 18 countries, including Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Turkey and Hungary. Also, the event will be attended by the Council of Europe's Director General of Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, European Olympic Committee President Patrick Hickey and other officials.
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