(France24) Dubai won the right on Wednesday to host the 2020 World Expo, becoming the first Middle Eastern city to organise the event in its more than 150-year history.
Dubai won the right on Wednesday to host the 2020 World Expo, beating off competition from the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, Yekaterinburg in Russia and Izmir in Turkey in a vote by members of the world fair body.
United Arab Emirates’ city won the support of 116 out of 164 voting members of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions in a final-round run-off against Yekaterinburg.
Dubai becomes the first Middle Eastern city to host an event which the UAE hopes will pull in billions of dollars of investment.
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