President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a delegation of the heads of European Olympic Committees, international sports organizations and foreign National Olympic committees in Baku on September 29, Azertac reported.

The next General Assembly of the European Olympic Committee in Prague will discuss the second European Games, the Youth and Sport Ministry reported.

The second European Games should be in Western Europe following the inaugural event in Azerbaijan, the head of the European Olympic Committees Patrick Hickey told The Associated Press.

The Baku 2015 European Games will undoubtedly play an important role in introducing Azerbaijan to the world, Arkadiusz Piotr Zalewski, the official representative of Poland’s national water sports team, told Trend.

Azerbaijan has organized the First European Games at the highest level, Igal Carmi, president of Israel’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) told Trend on June 22.

The European Olympic Committees announced on June 19 that the Albanian athlete Rexhildo Zeneli has violated an anti-doping rule under EOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Baku 2015 European Games, and was suspended from taking part in the Games.

The first European Games to be held in Baku are innovative, the chairman of the Coordination Commission of the European Olympic Committee (EOC) Spyros Capralos said June 11 at a press conference in Baku.

The Olympic village that was built in Baku for the First European Games, can’t be found in any other country, said Sergei Yeliseyev, the President of the European and All-Russian Sambo Federation on May 20.

The European Games in Baku will be the first in history, and it is significant and revealing that the unanimous decision was made to hold these games in Azerbaijan, Valeri Chechelashvili, the Secretary General of the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, told Trend May 18.

The Netherlands will take the torch of Baku 2015 European Games, as the country’s bid won the European Games 2019.