N.Z. youths for Moscow Youth Festival
PA Wellington Twenty-five young people will represent New Zealand at the twelfth World Youth Festival in Moscow from July 27 to August 3. They would be among more than 30,000 delegates and tourists from 150 countries expected to take part in the various festival activities marking the International Year of Youth, the Soviet Embassy here said. The festival agenda comprised cultural events, “round table” political discussions and sports competitions, including a run-for-fun along a 1985-metre course which is symbolic of the Year of the twelfth Youth Festival.
The embassy said the Soviet hosts, who organised a similar festival in 1957,
had attempted to foresee every desire of the festival's participants. Local restaurants would serve special meals to cater for Oriental visitors and others with particular tastes.
Five thousand tonnes of Russian ice-cream had been ordered by festival organisers to provide refreshment in the peak Moscow summer heat.
Dozens of additional discos and entertainment clubs had been set up in the city to enable foreign visitors to mix freely with local youths, the embassy said.
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