Source: Xinhua| Editor: huaxia Video PlayerClose BRUSSELS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The International Forum on Sharing Poverty Reduction Experience provides an occasion to heighten global awareness of the increase in poverty and inequality worldwide, former Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme has said. This awareness "will be very positive and productive in terms of going back again as soon as possible to the track of reducing poverty," Leterme told Xinhua Tuesday. With COVID-19 severely disrupting the livelihoods of the most vulnerable, the forum opened in Beijing on Monday was against a special background, as "for the first time in twenty years, we are experiencing a setback in terms of achievements in the field of poverty reduction," Leterme said.