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Kyrgyzstan launches official website of World Nomad Games 2016

Xinhua, July 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

Kyrgyzstan launched on Thursday the official website of the World Nomad Games, which will be held in Issyk-Kul region, the resort of Kyrgyzstan in September, informed the Secretariat of the World Nomad Games 2016.

Nurdin Sultambaev, the Head of the Secretariat of the World Nomad Games 2016, told a press conference in Bishkek that the design of the website, www.worldnomadgames.com, fully complies with the corporate style of games.

"The website will publish all the information concerning the Games ... including the program and schedule of all the events within the framework of the World Nomad Games in three languages: English, Russian and Kyrgyz. Besides, online shop will be available soon, where everyone can view and purchase branded souvenirs of the World Nomad Games," he said.

In his interview to Xinhua Sultambaev said that this is a big scale project and Kyrgyzstan expects a large number of tourists, who will visit the country.

The Head of the Secretariat of the World Nomad Games expressed hope that in future, this project will give good results.

"We focus on sports games, but at the same time we try to unite both sport activities and culture festivals in one project," he said.

Sultambaev also said that national kinds of sports are very popular in Central Asia.

"We received applications from many countries, where huge money is invested in traditional national sports games. This proves that every nation wants to preserve their national sports games and tries to develop and spread around the world and Kyrgyzstan took this initiative," he said, expressing hope that promotion of this brand will be successful.

The Second World Nomad Games will be held in Kyrgyzstan's northern Issyk-Kul region on September 3-8, 2016.

Heads of states and governments, prominent figures in the field of the culture and science, athletes from 40 countries and regions are invited to the Second World Nomad Games.

The first World Nomad Games were held in Kyrgyzstan on September 8-14, 2015 with the participation of athletes from 19 countries and regions.

The aim of the Nomad Games is revival and preservation of the historical cultural heritage of the nomadic people's civilization of the world, through the strengthening of cultural relations between the participants, preservation and revival of the culture of the nomadic peoples and to increase tourist potential of the host country of the Games. Endit