Kuwait to take part in Expo-2000

Kuwait will participate in the preparatory mini-expo exhibition that will be held in Lisbon early next year ahead of Expo-2000 to be held from June to October 31, 2000, assistant under-secretary for foreign trade affairs, Bader Abdul Rahim, said.

On June 23 the Kuwaiti trade official hailed the importance of Expo-2000 exhibition, due in this German city at the tum of the century, saying Kuwait would be represented in a manner befitting it's civilized, economical and cultural status.

Abdul Rahim highlighted Kuwait's preparations for Expo-2000 which would be held under the theme "Human, Nature and Technology."

Meanwhile, exhibition supervisor at Kuwait's ministry of trade and industry, Abdullah al-Oofan, praised the co-operation between Kuwaiti ministries to prepare for Expo-2000 that is considered the "most important exhibition at the end of the 20th century."

Expo-2000, whose construction will cost some 1.2 billion deutche marks but whose take will reach 2.6 billion marks, will stretch over 1.6 million square meters and comprise 12 halls. The distance between its northern and southern flanks is about 2.5 kilometers. "Our participation is not the first," Oofan said, and pointed out that Kuwait took part in the first Expo exhibition in 1967 in Canada, 1970 in Japan, and 1992 in Spain.

The Kuwaiti pavilion is about 1,500 square meters. He said so far 140 countries will take part in the five month exhibition, expected to be visited by

300,000 people daily. 85,000 extra parking lots would be provided. Expo-2000 aims at showing the civilizations and cultures of countries participating, as well as trying to find solutions to the problems facing the human being. Nutrition, health, communication, information, transportation, energy, environment, art, technology, development, training, education and housing will be among the issues exhibited at Expo-2000.

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