President’s wife, Board Chairman of Petro Poroshenko Charity Foundation Maryna Poroshenko opened the first Ukrainian Silk Road Forum. The event was also attended by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmytro Shymkiv, First Deputy Chairman of the Parliament Iryna Gerashchenko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Regional Development, Building and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine Hennadii Zubko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Ukraine Du Wei, Chairman of the Silk Road Chamber of International Commerce Lu Jianzhong, representatives of business and authorities of Ukraine and China.
Maryna Poroshenko stressed that Ukraine had strong and stable relations with China based on the long-term friendship between the two nations, mutual respect, trust and equality. “Ukraine and China develop diplomatic, economic and cultural ties confidently, cooperate in the sphere of science and technology, education, sports and tourism, have a broad potential for the further enhancement of versatile interaction,” the President’s wife addressed the participants of the Forum.
The President’s wife emphasized that our country had a significant internal potential for development, unique geographic location and great relations with the EU, all this allowing us to become a special partner of China in the “One Belt - One Road” project.
According to Ms. Poroshenko, the new Silk Road is not just a transport route, but a multidimensional process of bringing China closer to Europe and creation of new economic and cultural ties. “Mutually beneficial Ukraine-China relations must serve for the implementation of common dreams of the two nations about happy life in strong, independent and prosperous countries where all conditions are created for the national revival,” she noted.
The idea of new opportunities of the Silk Road was announced by President of China Xi Jinping in 2013. Today, the Silk Road is positioned as "an updated model of cooperation of Eurasian nations that will contribute to the development of the economy of not only the Central Asia, but also the entire China-Europe axis”. The initiative, inter alia, provides for the the smooth functioning of the transport corridor from Europe to China and the Central Asia to the Persian Gulf, in particular through Ukraine.
No comments:
Post a Comment