赞比亚外交部长向《Semafor》表示，赞比亚即将与美国就一项拟议的健康协议解决持续数月的争端。穆兰博·海姆贝称，华盛顿已同意删除存在争议的数据共享条款。美国国务院尚未公开确认这一变化。
Zambia is close to resolving a months-long dispute with the US over a proposed health agreement, the African nation’s foreign minister told Semafor. Mulambo Haimbe said Washington had agreed to remove contentious data-sharing provisions. The US State Department has not publicly confirmed the change.
美国与非洲国家达成的健康协议通常包含一项条件：作为获得资金的先决条件，受援国需向华盛顿共享可能在其境内引发疫情的路原数据。
The US has struck health agreements with African nations that involve sharing data with Washington about pathogens that could spark epidemics in their countries as a condition of getting the funding.
海姆贝表示，双方还同意取消健康协议与一项关键矿产协议之间的争议性关联，这是赞比亚今年早些时候公开提出的另一项争议点。
Haimbe said the two sides had also agreed to drop a disputed linkage between the health agreement and a separate critical-minerals deal, another point of contention that Zambia had raised publicly earlier this year.
海姆贝在谈及数据条款时表示：“我相信，双方现已同意完全替换这些条款。将关键矿产协议与健康援助挂钩的做法……也已被搁置。”海姆贝称，修订后的协议目前正处于双方可以签署的阶段。此番表态是在海姆贝本周于纽约联合国大会期间与美国副助理国务卿克里斯·库卢昆迪斯会面之后作出的。赞比亚方面发表声明称，两国重申了战略伙伴关系，并同意在健康、投资和关键矿产领域深化合作，但声明未提及存在争议的条款，也未确认这些条款已被删除。
“I believe that it has now been agreed that those provisions be replaced completely,” Haimbe said of the data terms. “The linking, the coupling of the critical minerals agreement with the health assistance … has also been set aside.” Haimbe said the revised agreement was now at a stage where the two sides could sign it. The comments come after Haimbe met US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Chris Kulukundis in New York this week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. A statement from Zambia said the two countries had reaffirmed their strategic partnership and agreed to deepen cooperation in health, investment and critical minerals, but did not mention the disputed provisions or confirm that they had been removed.
该拟议协议将在五年内向赞比亚提供美国健康援助，拟议赠款总额约为15亿美元，其中美国出资略超10亿美元。
The proposed agreement would provide US health assistance to Zambia over five years for a proposed grant valued around at $1.5 billion, with the US contributing just over $1 billion.
今年早些时候，随着华盛顿寻求与非洲政府谈判新的健康协议，将美国援助与健康体系、数据及其他领域的承诺挂钩，这一争端开始公开化。
The dispute became public earlier this year as Washington sought to negotiate new health agreements with African governments that tied US assistance to commitments on health systems, data and other areas.
赞比亚反对那些涉及健康数据使用的条款，并且也抵制了华盛顿试图将这项健康协议与关键矿产合作联系起来的做法。海姆贝（Haimbe）在五月份表示，这两项协议应该被分别对待。
Zambia objected to provisions covering the use of health data and also resisted Washington’s effort to link the health agreement to cooperation on critical minerals. Haimbe said in May that the two agreements should be treated separately.
这一分歧发生在赞比亚试图吸引更多投资进入其铜矿及其他关键矿产产业的同时，该国仍希望维持与中国长期的经济联系，并与美国发展更紧密的商业关系。
The disagreement came as Zambia was seeking to attract more investment into its copper and other critical-minerals industries while maintaining longstanding economic ties with China and developing closer commercial relations with the US.
海姆贝对 Semafor 表示，赞比亚希望与两国都保持合作，但不会给予任何一方特殊优惠。“我身处北京，并不意味着我反对华盛顿；反之亦然。”他说。
Haimbe told Semafor that Zambia wants to work with both countries without giving either preferential treatment. “Me being in Beijing does not mean that I’m against Washington and vice versa,” he said.