MOSCOW, Oct 20 Head of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Denmark Hans Natorp defiantly left the meeting hall of the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) during the speech of the President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the Inside the Games portal reports. The ANOC General Assembly is held on October 18-21 in Seoul (South Korea). Pozdnyakov made a report on the activities of the commission on education and culture headed by him. The report included two videos from the International Forum of Young Olympians held in Moscow in June and the International Sports Games «Children of Asia» held in Vladivostok in July. According to the source, Natorp felt uncomfortable during Pozdnyakov's report and left the hall along with several delegates. «I I respect the fact that the head of the ROC is the chairman of the commission, but found the video presentation unacceptable propaganda, so I decided to leave the hall. I felt embarrassed that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, so I could not stay, «Natorp said. Previously Natorp criticized the decision to admit representatives of Russia and Belarus to the ANOC General Assembly. Delegates from Norway and New Zealand also opposed the presence of the Olympic Committees of Russia and Belarus. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach criticized Natorp's proposal to prevent Russian representatives from attending the ANOC General Assembly.
