Azerbaijan withdrew from the European Weightlifting Championships on Saturday within the capital of Armenia a day after a person ran onto the stage on the competitors's opening ceremony, seized an Azerbaijan flag and set it on fireplace.
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Youth and Sports activities mentioned the athletes and people accompanying them have left Armenia.
Armenian officers mentioned the person who seized the flag was an worker of Armenian public tv who was invited to the opening ceremony. He was taken to a police station after the incident however freed with out costs.
Animosity between Armenia and Azerbaijan has risen in latest months with the blockade of the one street main from Armenia to the ethnically Armenian area of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh and adjoining territories got here beneath the management of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Yerevan in 1994, however a six-week struggle in 2020 returned a lot of the world to Azerbaijan's management.
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