ZAGREB, Dec 20 (Hina) - Croatia's participation in the world exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover will cost 30 million kuna (around DM7.5 million), Croatia's Reconstruction, Immigration and Development Minister Jure Radic told reporters at
a government news conference in Zagreb on Monday. The Government has set aside 20 million kuna for the project and for the remaining 10 million sponsors will be sought, Radic said, adding Croatia's pavilion will be modest but dignified. The topic of EXPO 2000 is man, nature and technology. "Croatia participates with one exhibit - its soil", said Radic, who heads the EXPO 2000 Croatian National Committee. The exhibition is prepared by the same team which designed Croatia's pavilion at the last exhibition in Portugal, which was rather successful for Croatia. The Croatian pavilion suggests a connection to nature and water as the bases of life, a member of the authors' team Brank
ZAGREB, Dec 20 (Hina) - Croatia's participation in the world
exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover will cost 30 million kuna (around
DM7.5 million), Croatia's Reconstruction, Immigration and
Development Minister Jure Radic told reporters at a government news
conference in Zagreb on Monday.
The Government has set aside 20 million kuna for the project and for
the remaining 10 million sponsors will be sought, Radic said,
adding Croatia's pavilion will be modest but dignified.
The topic of EXPO 2000 is man, nature and technology. "Croatia
participates with one exhibit - its soil", said Radic, who heads the
EXPO 2000 Croatian National Committee.
The exhibition is prepared by the same team which designed
Croatia's pavilion at the last exhibition in Portugal, which was
rather successful for Croatia.
The Croatian pavilion suggests a connection to nature and water as
the bases of life, a member of the authors' team Branko Siladjin
said. The 648-square-meter pavilion will have a glass floor beneath
which segments of Croatian soil - rocky ground, plow-land, fields,
rivers, and the sea - will be exhibited.
A documentary presenting Croatia and its people today will also be
shown.
After the exhibition, which lasts from June 1 to September 31, 2000,
the Croatian pavilion moves to Croatia, Radic said.
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