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President Khurelsukh Attends the Opening Ceremony of the Third Belt and Road Forum
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Beijing, October 18, 2023 /MONTSAME/. President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa attended the Opening
Ceremony of the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on
October 18, 2023.
The Forum is taking place in Beijing under the theme
“High-quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Together for Common Development and
Prosperity” on October 17-20, 2023.
In his opening remarks, President of the People's Republic
of China Xi Jinping emphasized, “The Belt and Road Initiative, drawing
inspiration from the ancient Silk Road and focusing on enhancing connectivity,
aims to enhance policy, infrastructure, trade, financial and people-to-people
connectivity, inject new impetus into the global economy, create new
opportunities for global development, and build a new platform for
international economic cooperation.”
President Xi Jinping also announced eight major steps China would
take to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, involving over 150
countries and nearly 20 international organizations in the next ten
years:
1. To build a multidimensional belt and road connectivity
network,
2. To support an open world economy,
3. To carry out practical cooperation to support
high-quality Belt and Road construction,
4. To promote green development,
5. To advance scientific and technological
innovation,
6. To support people-to-people exchanges,
7. To promote integrity-based Belt and Road
cooperation,
8. To strengthen institutional building for international
Belt and Road cooperation.
The Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
has three high-level forums on connectivity, green development, and digital
economy, as well as six thematic forums on trade connectivity, people-to-people
communication, think tank exchanges, clean Silk Road, subnational cooperation,
and maritime cooperation.
The Heads of State and Government of 23 countries, including
Mongolia, the Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, the Lao People's
Democratic Republic, the Republic of Serbia, and the Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka, are participating in the Forum.
