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4月14——15日西方七国财长、外长聚会东京,制定了援助俄罗斯的一揽子计划,其中包括多边援助434亿美元和双边援助60亿美元左右,因一部分双边援助(确数不详)包括在多边援助之内重复计算,故两项总计约490亿美元。上述援助总额中包含有过去许诺而未兑现的某些款项,例如去年西方七国承诺240亿美元援俄计划,实际只付了一半,另一半则再次纳入此次的援俄计划。去年美国布什政府已经承诺并已经国会批准但尚未使用的援助(约16亿美元),这次又被克林顿当作新的援助在同叶利钦会晤时宣布。另外,俄国今年到期的150亿美元外债延期偿还已由西方19国今年4月2日达成协议,这次也被纳入援助总额。所以西方报界有人戏称这次援助金额的计算是“数字魔术”。有人估算,新提供给俄罗斯的贷款不到200亿美元。援助总额中,商业信贷占很大份量,这些贸易保险和出口信贷只能用于购买援助国的商品(如指定用于购买美国小麦的即达9亿美元)。援助金额中有一部分指定用于帮助俄罗斯销毁核武器。整个援俄计划多属意向性,还需
April 14-15 On April 14, the finance ministers and foreign ministers of the seven countries gathered in Tokyo to work out a package plan to aid Russia, including 430.4 billion U.S. dollars for multilateral aid and about 6 billion U.S. dollars for bilateral aid. Some bilateral aid (including an unknown number) includes With double counting within multilateral aid, the two projects amount to about 49 billion U.S. dollars. For example, last year’s promises of the 24 billion U.S. dollars in aid to Russia plan by the seven Western countries were actually paid in half, while the other half were re-included in the plan to aid Russia. Last year’s aid (about 1.6 billion U.S. dollars) promised by the U.S. Bush administration but not yet approved by the U.S. government was announced again this time by Clinton as a new aid during a meeting with Yeltsin. In addition, Russia’s repayment of 15 billion U.S. dollars in foreign debt due this year has been agreed by 19 countries in the West on April 2 this year, and this time it is also included in the total amount of aid. Therefore, some people in the Western press have joked that the amount of assistance is calculated as “digital magic.” Some estimate that the new loans to Russia are less than 20 billion U.S. dollars. Commercial credit accounts for a significant portion of the total aid, and these trade insurance and export credits can only be used to purchase goods from donor countries (ie up to $ 900 million earmarked for the purchase of U.S. wheat). Some of the assistance is earmarked to help Russia destroy nuclear weapons. The whole plan to aid Russia is mostly intentional, but also needed