European-Armenian Olympic chief absent from Baku opening ceremony (Reuters)
By Karolos Grohmann BAKU, June 12 (Reuters) – Armenia’s Olympic Committee president will not attend Friday’s opening ceremony at the inaugural European Games nor will he travel to Azerbaijan for the 16-day event as relations between the neighbours remain tense. The two countries are at odds over the Nagorno-Karabakh region and as recently as April several soldiers from both sides were killed and more injured. “The president of the national Olympic committee of Armenia was never attending,” European Olympic Committees President Patrick Hickey told reporters.