Expo 2020 Dubai will respond to global calls for optimism and bring the world together on a mission to create a better future. This is the message seen by some 1,000 delegates attending the international meeting in preparation for the world's most spectacular event.
In the largest version of the International Participants' Meeting, which began yesterday and continues today, delegates stand on how to make Expo 2020 a global platform for collaboration to find innovative solutions to the challenges facing the world today.
Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashimi, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General of Expo 2020 Dubai, said: “Next year, the UAE will bring the world together in an international Expo that seeks to promote cooperation and aims to establish an open global dialogue that will allow us to look forward to the future with optimism. Renewed. Across the globe, individuals, institutions and countries are working together to address the challenges that all of us, the people of human creativity, have to overcome, and Expo 2020 will show the best of these efforts. ”
"The role played by international participants in these efforts is vital and essential. Each participating country has expertise, innovations and creative ideas that will be pivotal in making a better future," she said in a statement yesterday. “This shared sense of commitment to the principles of cooperation, open dialogue and optimism that are at the core of Expo”.
Expo 2020 Dubai, which will be held between October 20, 2020 and April 10, 2021, will be the most comprehensive Expo ever. 192 countries have confirmed their participation and visitors will have the opportunity to see the whole world in one place. For the first time, each country will have an independent pavilion and a special space to showcase its best cultures and creations to millions of people around the world.
With less than 11 months to go before Expo 2020, international participants will also be updated on the world's most spectacular event, with Expo 2020 moving ahead with construction and preparing a long list of food, music, technology, culture, arts and creativity. By everyone. Around 1,000 delegates from nearly 200 participating countries and organizations will gather at a crucial date to discuss their contributions to the upcoming International Expo, which will be a collaborative celebration that will allow everyone to create lifelong memories. Participating countries will put their hands in the hands of multinational organizations, educational institutions and companies in a six-month celebration of human advancement and achievements that will create a tremendous platform for the presentation of ideas and consolidate the UAE's status as a regional window that opens the door for countries and organizations to reach new markets and make new connections.
“Expo 2020 has a great ambition to attract 192 countries to celebrate human progress and meet challenges,” said Vicente Gonzalez Lucertales, Secretary General of the International Bureau of Exhibitions, who is responsible for organizing the World Expo. "At this two-day meeting, we will learn about the final preparations to organize this inspiring international event."
“Less than a year before Expo was launched in October, it will continue for six months of inspiration, entertainment and creativity, and, most importantly, this meeting will take on additional importance for international participants. We are delighted to learn that countries around the world are taking advantage of this global opportunity to work together to shape the future. ”
Ambassadors, government officials, state delegations, trade partners, representatives of the International Exhibitions Bureau and members of the Higher Committee of Expo 2020 Dubai will take part in the 4th International Participants Meeting.
International participants
The meeting of international participants is held in cooperation with the International Bureau of Exhibitions and is held at a regular pace in the run-up to the Expo, to inform participants of the progress made in the implementation of Expo 2020 Dubai plans and to inform them of the opportunities offered by their participation. The first meeting of international participants was held in 2016.