The company are one of the leading Azerbaijani media organisations and they are set to provide expansive coverage of the historic event, including text, video and photographic content.

A team of around 50 journalists make Azertac the largest Azeri news agency at the Games and they will focus their resources on promoting the event to both an international and national audience.

Baku 2015 chief operating officer Simon Clegg heralded the agreement and hopes it will help enhance uptake of certain sports during and after the European Games.

“We are delighted that Azertac has become the official news agency of Baku 2015 and believe the coverage it will generate across the country will help us inspire more people to play sport across Azerbaijan,” he said.

“Internationally, they have an important role to play, helping us build the brand of the European Games, which will be shown to a global TV audience in excess of one billion people.”

Their content will be available on a dedicated Baku 2015 section of the company’s website and, as well as coverage of the Games themselves, they are also due to broadcast profile features and general human interest stories throughout the event.

“A very remarkable event takes place in the life of Azerbaijan State News Agency which is today part of the global news community and an active member of international media organisations,” Aslan Aslanov, Azertac’s director general, said.

“We are very happy to become an official partner of the Baku 2015 European Games.

“Azertac is making its contribution to promoting the inaugural European Games and highlighting preparations through the world's biggest news alliances and our partner news agencies in more than 130 countries.

“A 50-man team of Azertac will do their utmost to provide extensive coverage of this high-profile sport event.

“Azertac will mobilise all its resources to handle this responsible mission of promoting the Games both on local and international scale.”

Around 6,000 athletes are due to descend on the Azerbaijani capital and they will battle it out for medals in 20 sports, 12 of which will provide vital Olympic qualification opportunities.

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