Belt and Road for International Cooperation

Those who travelled to Beijing for the forum included: Russia's President Vladimir Putin; Myanmar's State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi; Turkey's President; Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; Germany's Minister for Economics and Energy, Brigitte Zypries; Serbia's Prime Minister and President-elect, Aleksandar Vučić; America's top Asia policymaker, Matthew Pottinger; Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres; President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim; Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde; and Slovenia's Minister for Economic Development and Technology, Zdravko Počivalšek.

The joint communiqué, issued at the conclusion of the Leaders Roundtable of the Belt and Road Forum confirmed the shared commitment of the participants to the next phase of economic globalisation:
We reaffirm our shared commitment to build an open...