Vucic meets with BIE's Kerkentzes

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Secretary General Dimitri Kerkentzes in Belgrade on Friday, noting that, by taking over the EXPO 2027 flag later in the day, Serbia would take a step further to making a dream come true.

Vucic said his discussion with Kerkentzes had addressed all that had been done to host the prestigious event in Serbia as well as what remained to be finished.

"Besides technical details, we also discussed the potentials EXPO 2027 brings to our country and our citizens, from attracting foreign investment to promoting the country on the global scene. It will be an opportunity to showcase our progress, our values, abilities, hospitality and the wealth of our culture and tradition," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account.

We will be working even harder, he added.

"We will be even more energetic and more combative, we will not stop in order to finish everything by the end of 2026, because EXPO 2027 is our national interest, a strategic objective, and it will be representing the new face of a changed, strong and modern Serbia," Vucic added.

As a presidential envoy, Serbian PM Milos Vucevic will take over the flag of the specialised EXPO 2027 at the Sava Centre on Friday.

The flag was presented to a Serbian delegation in Paris on November 26.

The EXPO 2027 in Belgrade will take place from May 15 through August 15.