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The Armenian delegation is participating in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) summit - the 2025 World Conference on Doping in Sport - in Busan, South Korea.
The delegation includes WADA Foundation Board member Karen Giloyan, Advisory Team member Areg Hovhannisyan, and Armenia’s delegate to the European anti-doping organization, Gohar Sahakyan.
As a result of the discussions held at the WADA summit, the Foundation Board adopted the revised new Charter of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which will enter into force on January 1, 2027. The new Charter relates to the protection of athletes’ personal data privacy, the safeguarding of human rights, and the simplification of rules for clean athletes.
Giloyan, the Europe Representative on WADA’s 42-member Foundation Board—the Agency's highest decision-making body—highlighted the new amendments, which will make sport even “cleaner.”
“On behalf of the European countries, I express hope that once implemented, these new changes will truly serve their purpose. We unanimously support these amendments and will continue our fight for clean and fair sport,” Giloyan said.
During the summit, the entire Foundation Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency sharply criticized the pro-doping Enhanced Games, scheduled to take place in the United States in 2026.