新加坡将延长对IMF的贷款承诺

新华社新加坡12月30日电新加坡金融管理局30日宣布，新加坡将继续履行其贷款承诺，以支持加强国际货币基金组织(IMF)能力的多边努力。

MAS表示，延期将有助于增加IMF的资源，使其能够有效发挥作用，维护全球经济和金融稳定，应对新冠肺炎大流行。

根据金管局发布的一份新闻稿，这些贷款承诺将根据新的安排作出，贷款金额为18.6亿美元。此外，双方还签署了双边借款协议，总额为17.2亿美元。在2021-2024年期间的美元贷款。

马斯表示，贷款承诺是以或有贷款的形式提供给IMF，而不是直接提供给向IMF借款的国家。

SINGAPORE, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Wednesday that Singapore will renew its loan commitments to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the capacity of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

MAS said that the renewals will help boost the IMF's resources to enable it to effectively play its role in safeguarding global economic and financial stability in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to a press release from MAS, the loan commitments will be made under the New Arrangements to Borrow with a 1.86-billion-U.S.-dollar loan for the period 2021-2025 and the Bilateral Borrowing Agreement with a 1.72-billion-U.S.-dollar loan for the period 2021-2024.

MAS said that the loan commitments take the form of contingent loans to the IMF and are not made directly to countries borrowing from the IMF.