UNB, Dhaka :
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday opened the much-hyped ‘Belt and Road Forum’ for international cooperation in Beijing participated by World leaders, including representatives from Bangladesh.
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu and State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak are participating in the two-day Forum, a senior official told UNB adding that State Minister for Finance MA Mannan was also supposed to attend it. Bangladesh and China can immensely benefit by joining hands in economic development and improving the living standards of common people with a win-win proposition, the official said highlighting the importance of Bangladesh’s participation in the Forum.
“Global growth requires new drivers; development needs to be more inclusive and balanced. The gap between the rich and poor needs to be narrowed,” Zunaid Palak who attended the opening session of the Forum wrote on his Facebook. However, Bangladesh’s close neighbour India is apparently boycotting the Forum saying no country can accept a project that ‘ignores’ its core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“Regarding the so-called ‘China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’, which is being projected as the flagship project of the (Belt and Road Initiative or One Belt, One Road) (BRI/OBOR), the international community is well aware of India’s position,” said official spokesperson at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Gopal Baglay.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday opened the much-hyped ‘Belt and Road Forum’ for international cooperation in Beijing participated by World leaders, including representatives from Bangladesh.
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu and State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak are participating in the two-day Forum, a senior official told UNB adding that State Minister for Finance MA Mannan was also supposed to attend it. Bangladesh and China can immensely benefit by joining hands in economic development and improving the living standards of common people with a win-win proposition, the official said highlighting the importance of Bangladesh’s participation in the Forum.
“Global growth requires new drivers; development needs to be more inclusive and balanced. The gap between the rich and poor needs to be narrowed,” Zunaid Palak who attended the opening session of the Forum wrote on his Facebook. However, Bangladesh’s close neighbour India is apparently boycotting the Forum saying no country can accept a project that ‘ignores’ its core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“Regarding the so-called ‘China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’, which is being projected as the flagship project of the (Belt and Road Initiative or One Belt, One Road) (BRI/OBOR), the international community is well aware of India’s position,” said official spokesperson at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Gopal Baglay.
