Buckley chairs the European Weightlifting Federation's Coaching and Research Committee, with support from Belgium's Tom Goegebuer, Latvia's Eduards Andruskevics, Slovenia's Damyan Canzek and Serbia's Milan Mihajlovic.

During their meeting, Buckley and Aján discussed education and development within the sport.

The work of the Coaching and Research Committee was also covered in the meeting, as well as coaching courses currently being run under the guidance of the IWF.

Last year's European Coaches, Research and Scientific Conference was also discussed.

Buckley was edged in the race to become the Olympic Council of Ireland's second vice-president in the body's February elections by Snowsports Ireland's Robert Norwood.

There was further a blow to weightlifting's miserable anti-doping record on Friday when double British weightlifting champion Shila Panjavi was suspended from all sport for four years after testing positive for a metabolite of stanozolol.

It followed an in-competition test on June 12, 2016, during the British Weightlifting Championships at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

The 24-year-old, who had retained her 58 kilograms title at the Championships with a total lift of 175kg, was subsequently charged with an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to article 2.1 of the World Anti-Doping Code - "Presence of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an Athlete's Sample".

Panjavi formally contested the charge on the grounds that the positive test came as a result of taking medication for foot swelling while she visited Iran.

However, an independent National Anti-Doping Panel was not satisfied with Panjavi's explanation regarding the source of the prohibited substance and a four-year ban was imposed.