Kazakhstan filed official application for hosting EXPO 2017 in Astana
ASTANA. June 13. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan has filed an official application for hosting EXPO 2017 in Astana on June 10. This happened as Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry's Executive Secretary and the Application's National Coordinator Rapil Zhoshybayev met in Paris on June 10 with Secretary General of International Exhibitions Bureau (IEB) Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales.
The topic of the conference will be "Energy of the Future". According to IEB requirements, if selected to host the EXPO, Astana would need to get ready for arrival of no less than three million visitors in three months of the exhibition's work, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Economic Development said in a press release. The voting by 157 IEB member-states is to take place in December 2012, the press service of the Kazakh MFA reports.