The United States will attend the Milan 2015 Expo, the event’s commissioner general said. “(Former Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton assured me that the U.S. will participate,” said Roberto Formigoni, who was also the governor of Lombardy, the region surrounding Milan. Formigoni was in 2012 in the U.S. for a world hunger symposium organized as part of the Group of Eight summit, where Italy and seven other of the world’s top industrial countries are meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat Friday and Saturday.
Also known as the World’s Fair, the Expo is considered the world’s premier stage for countries to showcase goods, culture and innovation. The event lasts six months and is expected to bring in over 20 million visitors. Entitled “Feed the Planet, Energy For Life,” the theme in 2015 is devoted to fighting world hunger. Expo 2015 will be an extraordinary universal event displaying tradition, creativity and innovation in the business of food.
It will bring together many themes that have already been handled by this event in the past, and set them out anew in light of new global possibilities whose common core is the idea that everyone on the planet should have access to food that is healthy, safe and sufficient.
Expo 2015 will further develop themes introduced in earlier Expos (e.g., water at Expo 2008 in Zaragoza) in the light of new global scenarios and emerging issues, with a principal focus on the right to healthy, secure and sufficient food for all the world’s inhabitants. To prepare at its best the scheduled events, the City of Milan has signed numerous collaboration agreements with other cities both in Italy and Europe in order to coordinate initiatives about the common topic of Expo 2015.
These agreements focus principally on tourism, culture and infrastructure. Agreements have also been signed with various countries around the world for the development of specific projects associated with food and education. Participants in the Expo are expected to include over 120 countries plus a significant number of international organizations.
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