PARIS, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Argentina was elected on Tuesday as the host country of Specialised Expo 2023 by member states of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) after a voting organized during the second day of BIE's 162nd General Assembly in Paris.
After two rounds of voting, a majority of BIE's Member States voted for Argentina's project to organise the next Specialised Expo in Buenos Aires between Jan. 15 and April 15, 2023.
Three countries were in the running to host the next Specialised Expo, including Poland and the United States.
Specialised Expos, known officially as International Recognised Exhibitions, can be organised in the interval between two World Expos, and are designed to respond to a precise challenge facing humanity.
The most recent Specialised Expo was Expo Astana 2017, which gathered 4 million visitors between June 10 and Sept. 10, 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan, under the theme "Future Energy".
