Photo taken on July 2, 2016, shows a view of Gwadar Port in southwest Pakistan. Gwadar Port is a warm-water, deep-sea port situated on the Arabian Sea in Balochistan province of Pakistan. China and Pakistan agreed to build China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC), a major and pilot project under the Belt and Road Initiative, to connect the Pakistani Gwadar port with Kashgar city in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. 

July 20, 2016

"A senior UN official in charge of development policy analysis told Xinhua that China's Belt and Road Initiative is conducive to promoting the global efforts to carry out the 2030 Agenda, approved by world leaders in September last year to serve as the blueprint for the world development efforts for the next 15 years.

Hong Pingfan, director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said in a recent interview with Xinhua that 'the essential spirit of the Belt and Road Initiative is to promote win-win cooperation, common development and prosperity, peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness and mutual understanding and trust, and this is to a large extent in line with that of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.'"

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