
埃德·米利班德将声称全球金融体系正在辜负发展中国家,并呼吁为那些在债务重压下挣扎的政府达成一项“新协议”。
will claim the global financial system is failing developing countries, as he calls for a "new deal" for governments struggling under the burden of debt.
他承诺将利用英国的外交影响力推动紧急改革,并将援引上届工党政府于2005年举行的格伦伊格尔斯峰会作为例子——那是“让贫困成为历史”运动的巅峰之作。
Promising to throw the UK's diplomatic weight behind urgent reform, he will evoke the example of the Gleneagles summit under the last Labour government in 2005 – the culmination of the Make Poverty History campaign.
米利班德预计将表示:“全球金融体系,乃至全球秩序,在债务、韧性和气候问题上都未能服务于发展中国家。这不仅违背了我们的价值观,也违背了我们的国家利益。”
"The global financial system and indeed the global order is failing to serve developing countries on debt, on resilience and on climate. This is not just against our values but against our national interest," Miliband is expected to say.
“在我们生活的这个互联互通的世界里,我们所面临的机遇和挑战比以往任何时候都更具集体性。”周三在曼谷发表讲话时,他将呼吁世界银行和其他多边开发银行利用现有资源,减轻那些被高额借贷成本困住的政府的负担。
"In the interconnected world we live in, more than ever, the opportunities and challenges we confront are collective." Speaking in Bangkok on Wednesday, he will call for the World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) to use the resources they have available to lighten the load for governments trapped by hefty borrowing costs.
他预计将表示:“我们需要通过多边开发银行对发展中国家的债务采取行动。这些行动应利用国际金融机构的资产负债表,支持这些国家在更长的时间跨度内偿还债务,至关重要的是,通过更优惠的利率进行再融资,为它们提供宝贵的财政空间。”这位外交大臣将在曼谷出席国际货币基金组织(IMF)和世界银行的年会。
"We need action on developing country debt through the MDBs," he is expected to say. "Action that leverages the balance sheets of the international financial institutions to support these countries to repay over longer time horizons, and crucially, refinancing, with better rates, to give them precious fiscal space." The foreign secretary will be in Bangkok to attend the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings.
他选择亲自担任英国在世界银行董事会的席位,而不是将其留给发展大臣克里斯蒂·麦克尼尔。
He opted to take up the UK's seat on the bank's board himself instead of leaving it to the development minister, Kirsty McNeill.
工党在2024年的竞选纲领中承诺恢复英国在发展问题上的国际声誉,但基尔·斯塔默随后削减了援助预算以支付国防开支。
Labour's manifesto in 2024 promised to restore the UK's international reputation on development issues – but Keir Starmer subsequently slashed the aid budget to pay for defence.
活动人士长期以来一直声称,许多发展中国家支付的高额利息意味着偿债支出挤占了至关重要的公共支出,包括应对气候紧急情况的支出。在撒哈拉以南非洲地区,用于偿还债务的支出是教育支出的三倍多。
Campaigners have long claimed the high interest rates paid by many developing countries mean the repayments crowd out vital public spending – including on tackling the climate emergency. In sub-Saharan Africa, more than three times as much is spent on debt servicing as on education.
米利班德将主张,让全球金融体系更好地服务于新兴经济体也将有助于吸引更多的私人投资——这是世界银行现任行长阿贾伊·班加的主要目标。
Miliband will argue that making the global financial system work better for emerging economies will also help to attract more private investment – a key aim of the World Bank under the current president, Ajay Banga.
英国预计将于明年担任二十国集团(G20)主席国,这是一个讨论全球金融问题(包括主权债务)的关键全球论坛,其成员包括中国、印度、南非和巴西等新兴经济体。
The UK is due to take up the presidency of the group of nations next year – a key global forum for discussing global financial issues, including sovereign debt, which includes emerging economies such as China, India, South Africa and Brazil.
财政大臣约翰·希利将于本周晚些时候在曼谷阐述他自己的G20优先事项,包括从国际货币基金组织和世界银行的资产负债表中调动更多资源。
The chancellor, John Healey will set out his own G20 priorities in Bangkok later this week, including mobilising more resources from the balance sheets of the IMF and the World Bank.
2005年英国担任规模较小的八国集团(G8)主席国时,在格伦伊格尔斯酒店举行的领导人峰会上,英国达成了协议,最终使30多个国家获得了大规模的债务减免。
When the UK held the chair of the narrower G8 group in 2005, at the leaders' summit at the Gleneagles hotel the UK secured agreements that eventually resulted in more than 30 countries receiving large-scale debt write-downs.
米利班德将表示,目前的资源更加受限,但除了为大量国家提供债务再融资外,他还将要求彻底改革用于重组无力偿债国家债务的“共同框架”。
Miliband will say resources are now more constrained – but as well as debt refinancing for a large number of countries, he will demand an overhaul of the "common framework" for restructuring the debts of countries unable to pay.
该框架因过于缓慢和繁琐而受到广泛批评。在其他改革中,英国希望看到相关变革,以确保私人债权人无法阻挠谈判——正如埃塞俄比亚等近期的案例中所发生的那样。
The framework is widely criticised as too slow and cumbersome. Among other reforms, the UK wants to see changes to ensure private creditors cannot hold up negotiations – as has happened in recent cases including that of Ethiopia.
外交大臣还将呼吁进行改革,以便能够更迅速地向陷入困境的国家提供援助。他将表示:“我们需要在危机发生前就准备好资金,这样政府就能在几天而不是几个月内获得支持。”
The foreign secretary will also call for overhauls to allow help to be made available more rapidly to countries in trouble. "We need finance teed up in advance of crises, so that governments get support in days, not months," he will say.
米利班德将在洛克菲勒基金会智库的一份报告发布会上发表讲话,该报告呼吁国际货币基金组织和世界银行向债务负担沉重的国家提供“激增”的负担得起的融资。
Miliband will be speaking at the launch of a report by the Rockefeller Foundation thinktank, which calls for a "surge" in affordable financing from the IMF and the World Bank to debt-burdened countries.
活动组织“债务正义”的政策总监蒂姆·琼斯对米利班德关注这一问题表示欢迎,但他表示,任何计划的试金石都将是私人部门债权人是否承担部分成本。“迫切需要采取债务减免行动。这必须包括私人贷款机构分担成本。否则,公共资金将只是用来救助私人贷款机构,而不是用于投资。”
Tim Jones, the policy director of the campaign group Debt Justice, welcomed Miliband's focus on the issue but said a litmus test of any plan would be whether private sector creditors bear some of the costs. "Action on debt relief is urgently needed. That must include private lenders sharing in the cost. Otherwise public money will just bail out private lenders rather than be used for investment."