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-
Politics
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The group of the US congressmen on February 6 submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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On February 7, 2025, a meeting of representatives of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons of Azerbaijan and the Interdepartmental Commission on Prisoners of War, Detained and Missing Persons of Armenia took place at the state border of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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An appeal has been filed against the arrest of journalist Shahnaz Beylergizi, her lawyer Bakhtiyar Hajiyev told the Turan agency on Friday.
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