Transnational Organized Crime and Legal Safeguards for the Belt and Road Initiative

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Professor Dr.Surakiart Sathirathai, Chairman of the Asian Peace and Reconciliation Council (APRC), gave a keynote address to the attendants of the International Symposium on Fighting against Transnational Organized Crime and Legal Safeguards for the Belt and Road Initiative organized by Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People’s Republic of China, on 8 September 2017. In his speech, it was pointed out that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) seem to be complementary to each other. He also emphasized the intrinsic linkage between sustainable development and the rule of law. Therefore, the effective implementation of the Rule of Law is one of the essential factors to the success of the implementation of the BRI. Furthermore, due to the growing anti-globalization sentiment, it was further suggested that the implementation of BRI, as part of the new globalism must take four important points into consideration. Firstly, the new globalism must provide benefits to all people without discrimination. Secondly, all the UNSDGs must be incorporated as part and parcel of the new globalism. Thirdly, the implementation of all the new globalism initiatives, including the implementation of BRI, must be guided with the Rule of Law. Lastly, Asian countries must work closely together in order to ensure that transnational organized crime will not grow with the new globalism. This would help bring economic benefits to all people and the sustainable development could be fully realized.