The International Olympic Committee named five cities competing to host the Summer Olympics -2024 Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome. City winner will be known in 2017. Earlier in the number of applicants Baku was also mentioned. However, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the refusal of candidacy of Baku is connected with the preparation of other international competitions - Islamic Games -2017, "Formula 1" and the Chess Olympiad - 2016.
Baku applied for hosting the Summer Olympics in 2016 and 2020, but both times was not included the short-list of candidates.
Baku initiated the European Games to demonstrate the ability to hold major competitions. For this purpose, Olympic Stadium was built at 500 million Euro.
However, now under the decline in oil revenues, the authorities lost the enthusiasm, and not cannot afford itself such a luxury. -06D-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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