Expo

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Venezuelan FM Yvan Gil Pinto in Belgrade on Friday and thanked him for Venezuela's respect of the territorial integrity of Serbia and support for its successful bid to host EXPO 2027.

BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali met with KfW's director for southeast Europe and Turkey Klaus Muller on Tuesday to discuss current projects in Serbia supported by the German development bank.

BELGRADE - Serbia will fight for Belgrade to be named the host of Expo 2027, which would mean a tourism boom for the country, President Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the 44th International Tourism Fair on Wednesday evening.

ABU DHABI - As part of a working visit to the UAE, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Monday visited the G42 Institute in Abu Dhabi and held a meeting with the company's representatives.

G42 is a leading AI and cloud computing development company that has operations in the UAE, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

Ljubljana – First results show Slovenia has surpassed its goals for the Expo 2020, held between 1 October 2021 and 31 March 2022, as firms are already striking deals and UAE travel agents are showing interest in Slovenia. This shows the decision to take part was right, Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek said on Wednesday.

Dubai – The exhibition room in Slovenia’s Expo pavilion in Dubai is home to a gigantic 3D model of the Carniolan honey bee. The 100:1 scale model has proven to be a popular attraction and over 100,000 people that have seen it thus far.

The first trailer of Guy Ritchie's film "Operation Fortune," some scenes of which were shot in the southern Turkish province of Antalya, has been released. The film stars Jason Statham.

Previously known as "Five Eyes," the name of the international spy thriller film was changed to "Operation Fortune" in the past months.

Dubai – Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek took part in a debate discussing efforts to tackle global challenges related to smart villages, which was held as part of the Expo 2020 in Dubai on Monday. Countryside digitalisation is one of the priorities of the new common agricultural policy, he said according to the Agriculture Ministry.

London's renowned waxwork museum Madame Tussauds opened this week its first outpost in the Arab world in Dubai, which hopes to attract millions of tourists to Expo 2020.

Bulgaria's caretaker Premier Stefan Yanev met with the Ambassador of Japan to Bulgaria Hiroshi Narahira, announced the press center of Bulgaria's government. Ambassador Narahira invited Bulgaria to participate at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka.