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    Emil Lazarian
  • 8 years ago
    • Categories: 2018

Sports: Azerbaijan won’t participate in Fencing Championships in Armenia

PanArmenian, Armenia
Feb 13 2018
– 12:53 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Azerbaijan won’t participate in the 2018 European Fencing Championships U-23 which will take place in spring in Yerevan, Haqqin.az reports citing the country’s fencing federation.

The sporting event will be held in the Armenian capital on April 15-19.

Some 500 athletes from 30 countries are expected to participate in the Championships in Yerevan.

Previously, representatives of Azerbaijan participated in Armenia-hosted competitions just three time – the European Youth Judo Championships in 2009, the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in 2012, and the European Archery Championship in 2014.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS