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President’s wife opened first Ukrainian Silk Road Forum
07.11.2016 15:41 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of today, the President’s wife, Board Chairman of Petro Poroshenko Charity Foundation Maryna Poroshenko has opened the first Ukrainian Silk Road Forum in Kyiv, President Petro Poroshenko Press Office reports.
As to the report, 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.
Reportedly, 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.
As to the report, 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.
As 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.
It is to be admitted, the idea of new opportunities of the Silk Road was announced by President of China Xi Jinping in 2013.
The initiative, inter alia, provides for the smooth functioning of the transport corridor from Europe to China and the Central Asia to the Persian Gulf, in particular through Ukraine.
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