The International Exhibition in Plovdiv was an international exhibition that was held from June 7 to July 7 of 1991 in the city of
Plovdiv
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,
Bulgaria
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, under the theme of "The creative activity of young inventors at the service of a world peace." The exhibition was coordinated by the
Bureau International des Expositions
The Bureau international des expositions (BIE; English: International Bureau of Expositions) is an intergovernmental organization created to supervise international exhibitions (also known as expos or world expos) falling under the jurisdiction o ...
.
Organizers
The organizers of the exhibition were:
*The Ministry of Economy and Planning of Bulgaria
*The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Bulgaria
*The Republican Council of scientific and technical creativity of the youth of Bulgaria
*International Foundation "
Ludmila Jivkova"
*The Institute of inventions and rationalizations.
The exhibition was organized with the cooperation of the
World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; french: link=no, Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the list of specialized agencies of the United Nations, 15 specialized agencies of the United Nation ...
, a specialized agency of the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
.
References
External links
Official website of the BIE
See also
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International Inventions Exhibition
The International Inventions Exhibition was a world's fair held in South Kensington in 1885. As with the earlier exhibitions in a series of fairs in South Kensington following the Great Exhibition, Queen Victoria was patron and her son Albert Edwa ...
: 1885 in London
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List of world's fairs
This is a list of international and colonial world's fairs, as well as a list of national exhibitions, a comprehensive chronological list of world's fairs (with notable permanent buildings built).
1790s
* 1791 – Prague, Bohemia, Habsburg m ...
June 1991 events in Europe
July 1991 events in Europe
World's fairs in Bulgaria
History of Plovdiv
1991 in Bulgaria
History of inventions
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