Summary Ukraine is unable to host Euro 2015 due to difficult economical and political conditions.
KIEV (AFP) - Ukrainian sports authorities have announced a decision to withdraw from staging the 2015 European basketball championship because of the tense political situation in the country, local media reported Wednesday.
"I just can t imagine how it s possible to prepare the staging of the European championships in such difficult economical and political conditions," Ukrainian media quoted the chief of the Euro 2015 organising committee Markian Lubkivsky.
"The hosting of such a serious competition it s a large-scale project, which demands systematic planning and the complexity of important organisational arrangements.
"Such projects demand years of preparation and consolidated efforts of thousands of people to be successful."
Lubkivsky added that taking into consideration the circumstances in the country, Ukraine should ask the European panel of the world basketball ruling body FIBA to entrust any other European country the right to stage the 2015 European championships.
He also said that he believed that Ukraine will be able to stage the European championships in 2017.
Poland have already expressed their ambitions to stage the 2015 championships while Baltic countries Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were also named among the candidates for staging the event.
