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`The 25th Barcelona Olympiad which follows after the successful completed 24th Seoul Olympiad is the very meaningful festival for the world, especially, in the context that the world order is requested by us, due to the collapse of communism and the resurrection of important role of practicing the differences of ideology, religion and race with the slogan of ``Eternal Friends.`` Barcelona city, which the salute of Olympic is blown up, is known well as the city of Art as you see in many famous painters of Piccaso, Dali, Miro, etc. producedfrom this city. And, it is the historical city of 2000 years located at the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. With the mix of historical relics of Rome, Arab and Greece, this city shows us the cultural harmony of between the East and the West which is meaningful for the world to start a new harmonious history. The size of this Olympiad which will be unfolded for 16 days form July 25 to August 9, 1992 will be the biggest one with the players form 180 participant countries and tourists came up to 300,000 unprecedently. Moreover, the mascot ``COBI`` (the symbolic feature of the dog watching a flock of sheep) of this game will protect our collaboration and prosperity with a familiar looks. Now, in the thresold to enter into the new 21st century, we expect the success of the 25th Barcelona Olympiad to be expressed as the solidification of humankind with ``COBI`` watching for the ``Harmony and Progress`` which was accomplished by the `88 Seoul Olympiad. So, the Ministry of Communications issues two kinds of postage stamps consisted with the painting of ``pole Vault`` hoping of the jumping over the history of human of the late 20th century and``Rhythmic Gymnastic(Ribbon)`` as the expectation for the 21st century’s mobility.`