Translated Speech

Translated Speech. ️ ️Putin spoke at the opening of the “One Belt, One Road” forum in China The President took the podium immediately after the host of the forum, Xi Jinping. What the Russian leader said: ▪️Russia and China strive for long-term economic progress and social well-being. ▪️Russia and China stand for respect for civilizational diversity and the right of each state to its own development model. ▪️A North-South corridor is being formed in the European part of Russia - from the Baltic to Iran. Seamless railway communication will be organized there. ▪️Other sections will pass through Siberia, the Urals and Yamal. The “Northern Sea Passage” will be built - to the Arctic Ocean. The railway routes will run from central Siberia to the south – to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ▪️A corridor will also pass from the Arctic to the south - a railway line from BAM to Yakutia will be built, bridges across the Lena and Amur, highways will be modernized, and deep-sea terminals will be created. All this will connect the Northern Sea Route with the south - and all interested states are invited to participate in the projects. ▪️The One Belt, One Road initiative will help solve truly important and pressing regional and international problems. “Each of us, when we start a big business, of course, expects that it will be successful. But with such a global scale, which was initiated by the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China ten years ago, frankly speaking, it is difficult to expect that everything will work out. Our Chinese friends succeed. We are very pleased with these successes, because it concerns many of us,“ the President concluded. Источник: Slavyangrad