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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"A group of hydrologists and engineers from Azerbaijan and Armenia, with our active support, is working together on a comprehensive water management scheme for transboundary rivers," the U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mark Libby, wrote on the U.S. Embassy's social media account on November 12.
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As the Biden administration draws to a close, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed on an emergency trip to Brussels to discuss how to support Ukraine with European allies.
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The Prosecutor's Office is investigating the deaths of two people during the recent floods in Baku, Baku Mayor Eldar Azizov said commenting on the consequences of the flooding of tunnels in the capital during the heavy rains on October 22 to journalists. According to him, the sewer system could not handle the large volume of floodwater, which led to the drowning of two people in a tunnel in the Sabunchu district of Baku. The floods revealed vulnerabilities in Baku's water infrastructure.
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The United States is ready to assist all countries, including Azerbaijan, in the transition to renewable energy sources, the U.S. National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi said at a briefing at COP29, in response to a question from Turan about how the U.S. could support Azerbaijan in moving from oil and gas to clean energy.
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