The 8^th General Assembly of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 21-25, 2013.

The Vice President of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Vice President of ISSF Chingiz Huseynzada, the Head of International Relations Department and Executive Director of Organising Committee for candidate Baku city for IV Islamic Solidarity Games in 2017 Konul Nurullayeva, and the National Olympic Committee’s specialist for International programs and the member of the working group of Islamic Solidarity Games Mehman Karimov attended the meeting with the presentation about the city. As part of the Assembly the “Baku 2017 candidature book” was presented. The presentation provided broad information about the book.

The candidature book includes the sections about the vision and concept of the Games, political and economic situation, legal aspects, customs and immigration matters, environment and meteorology, finances, marketing and communication, sporting facilities and competitions, residential properties, transport, security, medical services and doping control. The participants watched a special video clip about the Islamic Games and received print materials.

The important point is that the NOCs as members of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation voted for Azerbaijan to host the 4^th Islamic Solidarity Games in 2017 and by the majority of the votes it was decided to hold the 4^th Islamic Solidarity Games in Azerbaijan in 2017.

The session also assigned a new composition of ISSF for 2013-2017 and Chingiz Huseynzada was re-elected a Vice-President of ISSF for the following 4 years. At the same time, on the basis of organisational changes the session adopted a historical decree by electing Konul Nurullayeva as the first female member of the Executive Committee since 1968. Thus, Azerbaijan is the only country represented in the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation by two members.

At the end we would like to note that it was also decided to hold the next General Assembly of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation in Azerbaijan in 2015.