Argentina elected host country of Specialized Expo 2023

Argentina was elected on Tuesday as the host country of the Specialized Expo 2023 by member states of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) after a vote organized during the second day of BIE's 162nd General Assembly in Paris.

After two rounds of voting, a majority of BIE's member states voted for Argentina's project to organize the next Specialized Expo in Buenos Aires from January 15 to April 15, 2023.

Three countries bid to host the event, including Poland and the United States.

Specialized Expos, known officially as International Recognized Exhibitions, can be organized in the interval between two World Expos, and are designed to respond to a precise challenge facing humanity.

The most recent Specialized Expo was Expo Astana 2017, which gathered four million visitors between June 10 and September 10, 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan, under the theme "Future Energy."

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)