Dialogues to enhance mutual understanding among B&R countries

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‍The Belt and Road Initiative links numerous countries from Central Asia, Europe and Africa. Such a large project involving many stakeholders requires a high level of communication and connection. The newly formed Silk Road Dialogues was created to meet this need by serving as a platform to enhance mutual understanding and green development.

Initiated by the United Nations Development Program and the NGO Himalayan Consensus Institute, the Silk Road Dialogues seeks to reduce risks and conflicts for countries along the Belt and Road Initiative.

"There are some barriers for the Belt and Road Initiative," said Agi Veres, Country Director of the United Nations Development Program in China. "So we really feel like through these dialogues, we can strengthen the people-to-people exchanges and we can strengthen how the people can participate in and benefit from the Belt and Road Initiative."

Workers on Belt and Road projects. / Reuters Photo

Besides advocating for more communication among countries, the dialogues also aim at promoting development. And this time, the China solution may become a viable template.

"The CPC is now the most single, green party of any party, of the green parties in the world, because it has adopted a very specific greenprint," said Laurence Brahm, Founder of the Himalayan Consensus Institute, "I won’t say a blueprint, but a greenprint on how to make a massive transformation from fossil fuels to renewables."

Brahm predicted as China’s infrastructure goes global, the world will follow, starting from the more than 68 countries and 4.4 billion people along the belt and road.

Talks will be held in China and India next year to communicate ideas and research policies that build resilience and sustain cooperation.

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