The 25th General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees was held with great success on the island of Crete in Greece.

The participation of the countries – members of the International Committee of Mediterranean Games was extremely big as 24 of the 26 National Olympic Committees attended the General Assembly.

On the eve of the opening of the General Assembly, on October 22, the host city contract for the organization of the 3rd Mediterranean Beach Games “Heraklion 2023” was officially signed and the Flag of the Mediterranean Games was handed over by the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games to the Greek side.  It was the first official appearance of the new ICMG President Davide Tizzano.

During the General Assembly, the representatives of the National Olympic Committees, in the presence of ICMG  Secretary General Iakovos Filippousis, had the opportunity to discuss and exchange views on sport in the Mediterranean basin, but also on the next Mediterranean Games, in 2022 in Oran and in 2023 in Heraklion.

The representatives of the National Olympic Committees at the ANOC General Assembly were:

Albania: President Fidel Ylli , Secretary General Gerti Shima

Algeria: President Abderrahmane Hammad, Secretary General Khireddine Barbari

Andorra:  President Jaume Marti Mandico, Secretary General Josep Antoni Guerra Alvarez

Bosnia and Herzegovina:  President  Marijan Kvesic, Vice – Presidents Milanko Mucibabic, Izet Rado

Croatia: President Zlatko Matesa ,Vice- President Sanda Čorak, Secretary General Siniša Krajac

Cyprus:  President  Georgios Chrysostomou, Secretary General  Andreas Georgiou

France:  President Brigitte Henriques, Vice-President Jean-Pierre Siutat, Secretary General Didier Seminet

Greece: Vice- President  Stelios Aggeloudis, Secretary General  Manolis Kolympadis

Italy:  Secretary General Carlo Leonardo Mornati

Κosovo:  President Ismet Krasniqi , Secretary General Besim Aliti

Lebanon:  President Boutros Jalkh , Secretary General Hassan Rustom

Libya:  President  Jamal Ezarrugh , Secretary General Khaled Ezankuli

Malta: Secretary General Joseph Cassar

Monaco:  Secretary General  Yvette Lambin – Berti

Montenegro: President Dusan Simonovic, Delegate  Maja Pekovic

Morocco: Vice-President Hamid Lahlou – Kamal,  Secretary General Abdellatif Idmahamma

North Macedonia:   President  Daniel Dimevski, Secretary General Sasho Popovski

Portugal:  President  José Manuel Constantino, Secretary General  José Manuel Araujo

San Marino:  President  Gian Primo Giardi, Secretary General  Eros Bologna

Serbia:  President  Bozidar Maljkovic, Secretary General  Djordje Visacki

Slovenia:  Secretary General   Blaz Perko

Spain:  Secretary General   Maria Victoria Cabezas Alvarez De Estrada, Director  Manuel Parga

Tunisia: President  Mehrez Boussayene

Turkiye: President  Ugur Erdener, Vice –President Kazim Ali Kiremitcioglu, Delegate Kubra Yildirim

The General Assembly was also attended by the members of the ANOC Executive Council Spyros Capralos (President of the NOC Greece), Alejandro Bravo Blanco (President of the NOC Spain) Neşe Gündoğan (Secretary General of the NOC Turkiye) and the member of the ΑΝΟC Events Commission Jean Michel Yves Brun.