BUDAPEST, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Leading government sports officials from over 40 countries within the Council of Europe (CoE) met in Budapest on Tuesday and signed agreements to fight against game fixing, spectator violence, and performance enhancing drug use.
Hungary's State Secretary for Sports, Tunde Szabo, told a news conference after the meeting that one accord, signed at the end of the session by the participants, was focused on fan violence at sports events, particularly at soccer matches.
CoE Deputy Secretary General Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni said the agreements an important move in fighting against corruption. She also noted that the CoE had signed a cooperation agreement here in Budapest with WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, aiming at more effective international actions against performance enhancing drugs.
Szabo also reiterated an announcement made to the gathering on Tuesday morning by Hungarian Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog, who said that the government was setting up a drug-testing center in Hungary in 2017. It should be ready to operate within six months, Szabo added.
Hungary would be organizing twelve world or European championships in various sports in 2017, the biggest of which would be the FINA World Championships.
BISHKEK, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will contribute to strengthening relations between its members, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry's special envoy for SCO affairs Irina Orolbaeva said Friday.
She made the remark during the forum "Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Experience and Prospects," which was held in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek to mark the 15th anniversary of the regional organization.
"In expansion of the SCO we must proceed from the overall interests of the organization, and our national interests, it is very important," she told the leading Kyrgyz experts, officials and representatives of diplomatic missions who attended the forum.
On the June signing of the memorandums of obligations for India and Pakistan to join the SCO, Orolbaeva said, "If we accept new states, it means it is necessary to build a relationship based on the fact that India and Pakistan will be our allies in the SCO."
The special envoy also said that Pakistan's membership may enhance the SCO role on the issue of Afghanistan.
She expected Pakistan and India will add political weight to the SCO, which is "facing new expectations and new goals."
Since its establishment, the regional bloc has seen effective cooperation between its members in trade, business, finance, energy and transportation, among other areas.
It has advocated and put into practice the pioneering Shanghai Spirit, which features mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations and pursuit of common development.
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