Address by Vito Rosario Petrocelli, President of the InstitutoItalia-BRICS and Former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate of Italy

I thank the organisers of this important Forum for giving me the opportunity to bring greetings during the Opening Ceremony.The Forum is being held on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative,during which 352 organisations from 72 countries are working together in the Network announced by President Xi Jinping in May 2017 at the Opening Ceremony of the First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.