The World Expo will be held in Osaka in 2025 and will feature more than 160 countries and regions present
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00:00With just under five months to go, preparations are well underway for the Osaka World Expo 2025.
00:08Delegates from around the world met in Paris on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments
00:14and find solutions to the different challenges encountered.
00:18The World Expo is one of the oldest and largest international events.
00:23More than 160 countries will present their latest innovations next year in Japan.
00:29But with only around 7.3 million tickets sold as of November,
00:34Japanese authorities hope to bolster their communication strategy to attract more European visitors.
00:52I think there will be a lot of green energy, climate change,
00:59and other issues that need to be addressed in Europe.
01:06I would like to share this with all the European countries.
01:10I would also like to spread the message that there is a global pandemic in Japan.
01:17This is one of the issues that has not been addressed.
01:20The governor of Osaka announced Ukraine will be participating in next year's Expo
01:25despite Russia's full-scale invasion.
01:28Moscow withdrew from the event last year.
01:31Organizers hope the World Expo will bring unity at a time of global instability and conflict.
01:38Expos are an apolitical gathering of countries.
01:41It's also a non-confrontational gathering of countries.
01:44It's a possibility for the world to come together, to try and talk together, and to have a dialogue.
01:49And I think that one of the things we notice,
01:52especially in the last few years in the different geopolitical context that we have
01:56and the problems that have been arising all over the world,
01:58is that we need a place for dialogue.
02:00We need somewhere where the world can come together and where, for once,
02:04perhaps we don't let our differences separate us, but we let our differences bring us together.
02:09The Osaka World Expo will take place from April to October next year
02:13and aims to welcome an estimated 28 million visitors.
02:19World Expo 2018