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BRI praised for promoting world peace, stability at Eurasian Economic Summit

STORY: BRI praised for promoting world peace, stability at Eurasian Economic Summit SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 22, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 23, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:47 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: POLITICS/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Istanbul 2. various of the session STORYLINE: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by China in 2013 was hailed for promoting world peace and stability by strengthening win-win cooperation at the Eurasian Economic Summit on Thursday. A special session entitled "Longing for Peace: Belt and Road Is 11 Years Old" was held on the second day of the summit, summarizing the accomplishments and contributions of the BRI. Vladimir Norov, former foreign minister of Uzbekistan and former secretary general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), said the BRI has been giving impetus to the development of the world economy by creating a global network of interconnection. Norov said the transcontinental transport line connecting China and Europe played an important ro

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Asia-Pacific exercise

CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Officials from participating countries join hands during a ceremony in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, on Feb. 11, 2013, to mark the opening of a large-scale military training exercise, code-named Cobra Gold 2013, involving 13,000 personnel from the United States and six Asian countries -- Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the host nation Thailand.

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Guam rampage

GUAM, United States - Photo taken Feb. 16, 2013, shows Guam Memorial Hospital where some people injured in a recent vehicle and knife attack in Guam are being treated. The Feb. 12 rampage left three Japanese dead and 11 others injured.

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Guam rampage

GUAM, United States - Kenneth Santos (R), vice mayor of the area in Guam where the suspect in a recent vehicle and knife attack resides, meets the press on Feb. 16, 2013. Santos said the family of Chad Ryan Desoto is remorseful for the tragedy. The Feb. 12 rampage left three Japanese dead and 11 others injured.

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Guam rampage

GUAM, United States - Chad Ryan Desoto (L), the suspect in a vehicle and knife rampage on Guam, attends court in the U.S. territory on Feb. 15, 2013. The Feb. 12 rampage left three Japanese dead and 11 others injured.

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Guam rampage

GUAM, United States - Chad Ryan Desoto, the suspect in a vehicle and knife rampage on Guam, attends court in the U.S. territory on Feb. 15, 2013. The Feb. 12 rampage left three Japanese dead and 11 others injured.

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Stabbing rampage in Guam

GUAM, United States - People pray during a memorial gathering at the site of a stabbing rampage in Guam on Feb. 13, 2013. A man stabbed bystanders with a knife the previous night after crashing his car into a convenience store in a major tourist area on the Pacific resort island. Two Japanese women were killed and 11 Japanese nationals were injured.

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Stabbing rampage in Guam

GUAM, United States - People pray during a memorial gathering at the site of a stabbing rampage in Guam on Feb. 13, 2013. A man stabbed bystanders with a knife the previous night after crashing his car into a convenience store in a major tourist area on the Pacific resort island. Two Japanese women were killed and 11 Japanese nationals were injured.

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Stabbing rampage in Guam

GUAM, United States - A woman and a girl place a candle at the site of a stabbing rampage in Guam on Feb. 13, 2013. A man stabbed bystanders with a knife the previous night after crashing his car into a convenience store in a major tourist area on the Pacific resort island. Two Japanese women were killed and 11 Japanese nationals were injured.

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Man's attack in Guam

GUAM, United States - Photo shows a building (back) housing a convenience store in Guam on Feb. 13, 2013. A knife-wielding man stabbed bystanders the previous night after crashing his car into the convenience store in a major tourist area on the Pacific resort island. Two Japanese women were killed and 11 Japanese nationals were injured.

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Man's attack in Guam

GUAM, United States - A Japanese woman joins hands after offering flowers in front of a convenience store in Guam on Feb. 13, 2013. A knife-wielding man stabbed bystanders the previous night after crashing his car into the convenience store in a major tourist area on the Pacific resort island. Two Japanese women were killed and 11 Japanese nationals were injured.

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Man's attack in Guam

GUAM, United States - Photo shows flowers laid in front of a convenience store in Guam on Feb. 13, 2013. A knife-wielding man stabbed bystanders the previous night after crashing his car into the convenience store in a major tourist area on the Pacific resort island. Two Japanese women were killed and 11 Japanese nationals were injured.

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S. Korea's Park up before IOC

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - South Korean soccer player Park Jong Woo heads for a disciplinary hearing by the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 11, 2013. The IOC held the hearing for Woo, who stirred controversy at the 2012 London Olympics by raising a banner in the bronze-medal match against Japan proclaiming his country's sovereignty over the Sea of Japan islets known as Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo by Koreans.

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Russian sail ship in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Russian sail ship Sedov heading to Nagasaki port in southwestern Japan on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Artificial earthquake in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo shortly after noon on Feb. 12, 2013. An artificial earthquake was detected at 11:58 a.m. that day in North Korea, in a possible indication that the country has carried out its third underground nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

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Saint Peter's Square

ROME, Italy - Photo shows Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City on Feb. 11, 2013, immediately after a Vatican announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will resign Feb. 28 due to deteriorating strength and advanced age.

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Russian sail ship in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Russian sail ship Sedov arriving at Nagasaki port in southwestern Japan on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Russian sail ship in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Russian sail ship Sedov arrives at Nagasaki port in southwestern Japan on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Asian Development Bank president

TOKYO, Japan - Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during an interview with media organizations including Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Kennedy in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy arrives at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2014. It is her first trip to the island prefecture with a sizable U.S. military presence since she assumed the post in November 2013.

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Kennedy in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy arrives at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2014. It is her first trip to the island prefecture with a sizable U.S. military presence since she assumed the post in November 2013.

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ADB's Nakao in Leyte

TANAUAN, Philippines - Asian Development Bank President Takehiko Nakao visits a primary school in Tanauan on Leyte Island, the Philippines, on Feb. 11, 2014. He visited areas of the island damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013.

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Woman serving as bridge between farmers, consumers

TOKYO, Japan - A woman tries snowshoes with the help of a local man in Yokote, Akita Prefecture on Feb. 9, 2013. She was among the 11 women from the Tokyo metropolitan area who participated in the tour "Let's shovel snow and become an Akita beauty" organized by Kometabi Co. with the hope of helping consumers directly interact with farmers and learn about the secrets behind high-quality rice. (Photo by Shuzo Shikano)

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Actor Natsuyagi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 7, 2013, shows Japanese actor Isao Natsuyagi. Natsuyagi died at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 11, 2013, at age 73. While the cause of death was not immediately revealed, he had suffered from pancreatic cancer, sources close to him said.

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U.S. researcher pens book on traditional societies

TOKYO, Japan - Jared Diamond, an American scientist known for a broad range of research on anthropology and biology among others, shows the Japanese edition of his recently published book "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Lean from Traditional Societies?" on Feb. 11, 2013, in Tokyo. The book provides detailed analysis of traditional societies he encountered during his extensive travels around the globe for years.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. At center in the front is a ''noh'' performance stage. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Bettina Zorn, head of the East Asian Collections at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, explains a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the museum on Feb. 11, 2013. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995 by Zorn, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. A 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873, was found at the museum's depot in 1995. The wooden model will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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A-bomb survivors pass on own experiences to support Fukushima

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 11, 2013 in the city of Nagasaki shows Masahito Hirose, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in Nagasaki who set up a group to liaise between Fukushima and Nagasaki to support young people in the nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima Prefecture in the long term.

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A-bomb survivors pass on own experiences to support Fukushima

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 11, 2013 in the city of Nagasaki shows Masahito Hirose, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in Nagasaki who set up a group to liaise between Fukushima and Nagasaki to support young people in the nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima Prefecture in the long term.

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Walking for survey of post-disaster park reconstruction

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Shunsuke Goto, a Waseda University student, looks at the mouth of the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013, during a field survey commissioned by the Environment Ministry to choose a 700-kilometer natural path called "Tohoku Kaigan Trail." The selection of the coastal path from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, to Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, is a core project for a Sanriku Fukko (Reconstruction) National Park to be created by rebuilding natural parks damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Teacher vows not to let students die from disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Toshiro Sato (L), a teacher at Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, tells students at his school to come up with their own words as a "3.11 message" during an assembly for disaster prevention education on Feb. 15, 2013. Sato believes that not to forget what happened in the quake-tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, is the best disaster prevention.

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show a baggage turnstile at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on March 17, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on Feb. 28, 2013. Flight services at the airport, which was inundated by the tsunami, resumed around a month after the disaster.

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2 years after quake

KAMAISHI, Japan - Photos show a road in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same road on Feb. 27, 2013.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a classroom at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, located in the no-entry area. The date of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster remains on the whiteboard.

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Record snow in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - A house is half buried in snow in the Sukayu hot spring resort in Aomori Prefecture on Feb. 25, 2013. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a new snow accumulation record for existing observation points in Japan was set the same day, with Sukayu registering 550 centimeters as of 11 a.m.

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Record snow in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - A tourist tries to dig out a car buried in snow in the Sukayu hot spring resort in Aomori Prefecture on Feb. 25, 2013. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a new snow accumulation record for existing observation points in Japan was set the same day, with Sukayu registering 550 centimeters as of 11 a.m.

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Record snow in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows an area of Sukayu, a hot spring resort in Aomori Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a new snow accumulation record for existing observation points in Japan was set the same day, with Sukayu registering 550 centimeters as of 11 a.m.

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Record snow in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows a car driving on a road sandwiched by snow walls near Sukayu, a hot spring resort area in Aomori Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a new snow accumulation record for existing observation points in Japan was set the same day, with Sukayu registering 550 centimeters as of 11 a.m.

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Guam rampage

GUAM, United States - People pray on Feb. 21, 2013 for the victims of a vehicle and knife attack at the site of the incident in Guam. The same day, the suspect in the Feb. 12 rampage was formally indicted for killing three Japanese tourists and wounding 12 other people, 11 of them from Japan.

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2001 fatal stampede

KOBE, Japan - (From front) Kiyoshi Miki, Seiji Shimomura and Masaharu Arima, who lost relatives in a 2001 stampede in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, attend a press conference in Kobe on Feb. 20, 2013. The Kobe District Court earlier the same day dismissed a case against a former senior police officer over the stampede on a bridge that was overcrowded with fireworks spectators on July 21, 2001, in which 11 people died and 247 were injured. The court ruled the statute of limitations had expired.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2013, shows various merchandise featuring ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, on display at the prefectural government offices. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said the same day.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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Buddhist temples joining matchmaking boom

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Shunko Yoshino (R), chief priest of Anrakuji, a Buddhist temple of the Nichiren sect in the city of Wakayama, and Ryushin Yasutake (C), chief priest of Dorakuji, a Buddhist temple of the Kuze Kannon sect in the town of Katsuragi, Wakayama Prefecture, accept participants in a spouse-finding hunting event in front of an altar in the main hall of Anrakuji on Feb. 11, 2013.

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Buddhist temples joining matchmaking boom

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Shunko Yoshino, chief priest of Anrakuji, a Buddhist temple of the Nichiren sect in the city of Wakayama, explains rules of a spouse-finding event at the temple to a female participant on Feb. 11, 2013.