Baku edition of European Olympic Games presented in Rome
(AGI) Rome, Mar 5 - Baku is to host the first edition of theEuropean Olympic Games in Baku from June 12 to 29. Presentingthe event at Rome's National Gallery of Modern Art was MahribanAliyeva, president of the organising committee of the Games andwife of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. There are close cultural,humanitarian, economic and sporting ties between Azerbaijan andItaly. Mrs Aliyeva mentioned the recent go-ahead for theTransatlantic Pipeline, which will carry Azeri gas to Italy,Azeri funding for excavation and upgrading projects at Rome'sImperial Fora, for the monument to poet Nizami Ganjavi