Botswana can boost cooperation with China by participating in BRFIC: Kabelo Ebineng

Botswana will have an opportunity to boost trust and cooperation with China by attending the 2019 Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, according to a Botswanan senior official.

"China and other forum parties, Botswana included, will be taking stock of what has been achieved and draw a blueprint to further enrich cooperation on the initiative," Kabelo Ebineng, permanent secretary in Botswana ministry of transport and communications, spoke to the media in the capital city of Gaborone before setting off to Beijing.

Botswana will be represented by its Transport and Communications Minister Dorcas Makgato at the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRFIC) scheduled to take place between April 25 and 27 in China's Beijing. "Our friendship is beneficial to both of us," Kabelo Ebineng said, as reported by Xinhua.

He opined that cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative is an action focused on inventiveness that delivers noticeable outcomes and that the contributing parties would cultivate multi-tiered collaboration with more realistic results of higher quality.

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