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Kyiv authorities will focus on equipping infrastructure for holding Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv, which is expected to be attended by 20,000 people, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has said.

“All illegal small architectural forms, which are located on the approaches to the International Exhibition Center, will be demolished. All the locations, at which the song contest will be held, will be landscaped. Our task is to prepare infrastructure so that the city look attractive, so that all visitors, who will come to Eurovision, receive only positive impressions and emotions from our city. And I want to emphasize that safety is one of the key stages of preparation for the competition,” Klitschko said at a meeting of the organizing committee on preparations for Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv.

The mayor noted the city authorities will focus on road repairs, arrangement of infrastructure around the International Exhibition Center, which will host the contest. In particular, the city plans to arrange Mykolsko-Slobidska embankment.

Klitschko said, according to preliminary estimates, about 20,000 people will visit the Ukrainian capital during the contest.