{"id":359066,"date":"2023-11-28T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T21:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/saudi-arabia-to-host-world-expo-2030\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:34:24","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-host-world-expo-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-to-host-world-expo-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to host World Expo 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris \u2013 The 2030 World Expo will be held by Saudi capital Riyadh, which easily defeated rival bids from Italian capital Rome and South Korea\u2019s Busan. Riyadh won 119 votes, Busan 29 and Rome 17, at the general assembly of organizers Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris, France. <em>Pictured, BIE secretary-general Dimitri Kerkentzes and Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud during the press announcement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hosting the Expo is of immense importance for the Arab country, whose bid was spearheaded by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, as he seeks to secure the world\u2019s top events to showcase Saudi Arabia across the globe. The date of 2030 is hugely symbolic for MBS, coinciding with the key milestone in the Vision 2030 program to diversify Saudi Arabia economically and culturally.<\/p>\n<p>The Riyadh Expo is set to take place from October 2030 to March 2031 on the theme \u201cThe Era of Change: Together for a Foresighted Tomorrow,\u201d according to the Saudi bid.<\/p>\n<p>These megaevents, seen as a \u201ca machine to boost growth and strengthen influence,\u201d contribute to forge a global \u201cpolitical image,\u201d says sociologist Patrick Le Gal\u00e8s, research director at France\u2019s Sciences Po. Saudi Arabia is also set to host the 2034 football World Cup after emerging as the only bidder for the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any reproduction of this content is prohibited.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Expo is set to take place from October 2030 to March 2031. Riyadh was chosen on Tuesday (28) over Busan and Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":357410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46555,106,3066],"tags":[11910,25092,46742,25069,1918,46743,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-359066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diplomacy","8":"category-foreign-affairs","9":"category-society","10":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","11":"tag-expo-2030","12":"tag-expo-2030-saudi-arabia","13":"tag-riad-en","14":"tag-riyadh","15":"tag-riyadh-expo-2030","16":"tag-saudi-arabia"},"wps_subtitle":"The World Expo is set to take place from October 2030 to March 2031. Riyadh was chosen on Tuesday (28) over Busan and Rome.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}