TWO AZERI MINISTERS VISIT ARMENIA

Interfax
Sept 2 2009
Russia

Azerbaijan’s Youth and Sport Affairs Minister Azad Ragimov and Labor
and Social Security Minister Fizuli Alekperov are currently paying
a visit to Armenia.

Ragimov and Alekperov, who is also head of the Azeri Judo Federation,
arrived in Yerevan to inspect security arrangements and accommodation
to be provided for Azeri athletes during the European Youth Judo
Championship on September 11-14, spokesman for the Armenian Sport
Affairs Ministry Yury Aleksanyan told Interfax.

The Armenian and Azeri sport and youth affairs ministers, the heads of
the two countries’ national judo federations and representatives of the
European Judo Union and the European Olympic Committee signed a treaty
in Yerevan on Wednesday that allows judo athletes from Azerbaijan
to take part in the upcoming European Youth Judo Championship in the
Armenian capital.