ARMENIA UNDER TITLE COUNTRY OF SPEAKING STONES TO TAKE PART IN SHANGHAI EXPO 2010 WORLD EXHIBITION
NOYAN TAPAN
Ju ly 8
Yerevan
Armenia under the title Country of Speaking Stones will take part in
the Shanghai Expo 2010 world exhibition to be held between May 1 to
October 31, 2010 in the city of Shanghai, China. Robert Haroutiunian,
the Director General of the Armenian Development Agency (ADA),
reported on June 7. (NT: Country of Speaking Stones is the title of
the traditional international tourism exhibition held in Armenia).
According to him, in the near future the interdepartmental commission
on organization of work of Armenia’s participation in Shanghai 2010
will study the proposal of the creative group of Armenian pavilion’s
design, after the approval of which it will be presented to the
Chinese side, which is the exhibition’s organizer. After signing
an agreement between the sides the work of making and design of the
Armenian pavilion will start.
According to R. Haroutiunian, the negotiations on the area of the
Armenian pavilion are still underway. It is expected that it will
take an area of 1000 sq. m. Budget means of 600m drams (nearly 2m USD)
are envisaged for financing Armenia’s participation in Shanghai 2010.
It should be mentioned that Armenia took part in the world exhibitions
held in 2000 in the German city of Hannover and in 2005 in the
Chapanese city of Aichi. In the exhibition of Aichi Armenia’s pavilion
with the area of 162 sq. m. was located in the Caucasus common pavilion
together with the exhibits of Georgia and Azerbaijan. Armenia took
part in the exhibition of Aichi under the title Art of Life.