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10月23日新西兰新闻秘书处消息，亚太经合组织财长将继续共同努力，应对COVID-19的影响，确保可持续和包容性的复苏，同时利用这一机遇建设更具弹性的未来。
新西兰财政部长兼副总理格兰特·罗伯逊在惠灵顿主持了亚太经合组织财长会议。 格兰特·罗伯逊说:”虽然该地区的经济活动有所反弹，疫苗接种率也在上升，但COVID-19的复苏并不均衡。一些部门，如旅游业、中小企业和一些群体，如妇女和土著人民，继续受到这一流行病的不成比例的影响”。
财长们就亚太经合组织经济体为应对这一流行病而采取的行动和政策进行了建设性的讨论，以及需要采取平衡的办法。在支持福祉的同时保持长期财政可持续性，针对最需要的地方提供支持，以及解决气候变化和生物多样性丧失等长期问题。 与会者包括亚太经合组织所有21个经济体的财政部长、亚太经合组织工商咨询理事会主席雷切尔·陶莱雷、经合组织、国际货币基金组织、世界银行和亚行的代表，以及即将上任的亚太经合组织财长进程主席泰国总理阿霍姆·特姆皮塔亚派西。
在会后发表的联合声明中，亚太经合组织财长同意利用一切现有政策工具解决COVID问题，支持强劲、可持续、平衡和包容性的复苏:保持宏观经济和金融稳定，避免竞争性汇率贬值，加大力度扩大疫苗生产和供应，支持全球疫苗共享工作。重申自由和公平贸易和投资的重要性，以世贸组织为核心的环境，加快数字化转型。
部长们还商定了更新后的宿务行动计划战略，该战略鼓励各经济体适当重视亚太经合组织新的指导性文件、亚太经合组织2040年展望和亚太经合组织新的结构改革议程，即加强亚太经合组织结构改革议程。
格兰特·罗伯逊说:”很荣幸能与亚太经合组织财长们一道，加强我们的债券，并反思我们在应对COVID-19大流行病方面的集体进展。这次会议进一步表明，我们有战略和工具，可以继续推动复苏，同时应对气候变化和改善亚太经合组织所有经济体人民的福祉″。
《宿务行动计划》在菲律宾2015年主办国年期间得到财政部长的同意，并制定了财政部长进程的10年高级别工作方案。2021年是法定的中点审查年。审查为各经济体提供了一个机会，以考虑COVID-19和最近商定的普特拉贾亚2040年愿景的影响。作为战略更新的一部分，新西兰建议采用冠军经济模式，允许个别经济体自愿就具体政策问题开展多年工作方案。
News from the New Zealand Press Secretariat on October 23,APEC finance ministers focus on inclusive, sustainable COVID recovery APEC finance ministers will continue to work together to respond to the effects of COVID-19 and ensure a sustainable and inclusive recovery while capitalising on the opportunity to build a more resilient future.
The New Zealand Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson chaired the virtual APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting from Wellington.
“While economic activity in the region has rebounded and vaccination rates are rising, the recovery from COVID-19 has been uneven. Some sectors, such as tourism, small and medium-sized businesses, and some groups, such as women and indigenous peoples, continue to be disproportionately impacted by the pandemic,” Grant Robertson said.
“Finance ministers have had constructive discussions on the actions and policies APEC economies have implemented to combat the pandemic and the need for a balanced approach to preserve long term fiscal sustainability while supporting wellbeing, targeting support to where it is needed most and tackling long-standing issues of climate change and biodiversity loss. Attendees included finance ministers from all 21 APEC economies, APEC Business Advisory Council Chair Rachel Taulelei, representatives from the OECD, IMF, WBG, and ADB, and incoming APEC Finance Ministers’ Process Chair Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith of Thailand. In a joint statement issued after the meeting, the APEC finance ministers agreed to use all available policy tools to address COVID and support a strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive recovery; maintain macroeconomic and financial stability; refrain from competitive exchange rate devaluations; step-up efforts to expand vaccine manufacture and supply and support global vaccine sharing efforts; reiterate the importance of a free and fair trade and investment environment with the WTO at its centre; and accelerate the digital transformation.
Ministers also agreed on the refreshed Cebu Action Plan strategy, which encourages economies to pay due regard to APEC’s new guiding document, the APEC Putrajaya Vision 2040, and APEC’s new structural reform agenda, the Enhanced APEC Agenda for Structural Reform. “It was a privilege to join with fellow APEC finance ministers to strengthen our bonds and to reflect on our collective progress to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting has reinforced that we have strategies and tools available to us that can continue to drive recovery while also tackling climate change and improving the wellbeing of people across all APEC economies,” Grant Robertson said.
The Cebu Action Plan was agreed by Finance Ministers during the Philippines’ 2015 host year and sets out the 10-year high-level work programme of the Finance Ministers’ Process. 2021 marks the year of a mandated mid-point review. The review gives an opportunity for economies to consider the impact of COVID-19 and the recently agreed Putrajaya Vision 2040. As part of the strategy refresh New Zealand has recommended the adoption of a Champion Economies model which would allow individual economies to volunteer to run multi-year work programmes on specific policy issues.
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