Agreement between City of Rijeka and FIDE

Agreement between City of Rijeka and FIDE
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 13:06

Today in Rijeka’s Town Hall an Agreement was signed between the City of Rijeka and the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in which the City of Rijeka obliges itself to give the proposal for including the chess, within its own quota, into the list of sports making part of the Mediterranean Games sports list, while FIDE will support the Rijeka’s candidature for the Mediterranean Games in 2017 or later.

The Agreement was signed by the mayor of the City of Rijeka Vojko Obersnel and FIDE vice-president Georgios Makropoulos. This signing was also attended by ECU president Boris Kutin, president of Chess Club Rijeka Damir Vrhovnik and Head of the Sports Department of the City of Rijeka Veljko Karabaić.

Source: FIDE