June 10, 2023

President of the Republic of Honduras Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento formally requested the country's admission to the BRICS-led New Development Bank (NDB) after she visited the headquarters of the bank in Shanghai on Saturday. She also visited a Huawei research center on the same day, highlighting pragmatic cooperation during her trip to China.

In addition to promoting political consensus, pragmatic cooperation in the economic and trade fields can also help create a solid foundation for China-Honduras relations so as to ensure that bilateral relations can go further, experts noted.

"We believe that we can have all the possibilities here to find mechanisms that allow us to develop our economy, as well as find permanent allies that allow us to give a different quality of life to our peoples," Castro said at the NDB, a multilateral development bank established by BRICS countries, according to an EFE report.

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