Silk Road Forum launched

Chinese ambassador Zhang Zuo on Saturday said that the Belt and Road Initiative undertaken by China would help establish a new type of international relations for creating an inclusive world with shared prosperity.
He said this at a function in Dhaka to launch the Bangladesh-China Silk Road Forum comprising several leaders of different political parties and members of different professions. 
Describing Bangladesh as an important partner in the BRI being promoted by Chinese president Xi Jingpin, Zhang said that the participating countries would need to forge a strong collaboration for mutual benefits of the peoples living in different regions.
Prime minister’s international affairs adviser Gowher Rizvi said that Bangladesh should uphold own interests in different regional and sub-regional groups in a changing scenarios as India and China, two major countries and economies in the region, have started improving their relations over the past 10 years. 
Mentioning the benefits that would come from the BRI, he said, ‘It is not a zero-sum game. It is a positive-sum game.’ 
Bangladesh Samyabadi Dal general secretary Dilip Barua is the president of the BCSRF and Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s national standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan, Awami League advisory council member Mozaffar Hossain Paltu, leaders of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal factions Hasanul Haq Inu and Sharif Nurul Ambia and columnist Syed Abul Maksud, among others, are vice-presidents of the forum. 
Financial Express executive editor Shahiduzzaman Khan is the member-secretary of the 49-member BCSRF executive committee, in which Dr. Wajedul Islam, Bimal Biswas, Professor Delwar Hossain, Dr Mostaq Hussain, among others, are members.

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