扎美比亚与两大中国国营贷款机构达成了债务重组协议，旨在调整总额为15亿美元的债务。这标志着南部非洲国家解决疫情时期作为首个主权违约国问题进程中的一个重大进展。
所提及的贷款涉及中国开发银行（China Development Bank）和工商银行（Industrial and Commercial Bank of China），这些负债是扎美比亚在2020年开始进行债务重组计划后的最大未处理欠款。根据财长穆索特万周五发布的2025年度预算演说，政府已与上述两家银行达成原则性协议。
国际货币基金组织确认，此协议符合其对国家的运行准则，而扎美比亚官方债权人委员会也表示所提供的债务减免与此一致，这得到了穆索特万的证实。扎美比亚正处在一个为期38个月的计划中，并将于明年结束，其中中国作为与法国共同领导的官方债权委员会主席之一参与，但在此情况下，中国开发银行和工商银行选择以商业贷款机构身份进行单独谈判。
到6月底，据财长提供的数据，扎美比亚欠中国开发银行4.69亿美元。至于工商银行的数据则未提供。此外，该国还与Nedbank集团及中兴技术公司达成协议，并正在努力敲定具体条款的细节。虽然IMF和官方债权人委员会的认可是重要步骤，但这未必足以保证新协议能够顺利推行。
在30亿美金债务重组谈判中，债券持有人加入了一项称为“最优债权人”的条款，这意味着，如果政府在与其它债权人协商时达成了更为有利的条件，则必须同样向这些债券持有人提供相同的优惠。然而，穆索特万未透露与中国开发银行和工商银行达成的具体协议详情。
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原文地址：Zambia Agrees to Debt Revamp with Chinese Lenders, Finance Minister Says
新闻日期：2024-09-27
原文摘要：
Zambia has reached a deal with two Chinese state-owned lenders to restructure $1.5 billion in debt, according to Finance Minister , a major step toward concluding a years-long process.The loans owed to China Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China were among the biggest remaining liabilities the southern African nation needed to rework under a debt restructuring process it began in 2020 after becoming Africa’s first pandemic-era sovereign defaulter. The government has now reached in-principle deals with the lenders, Musokotwane said Friday in a copy of his 2025 budget speech.The International Monetary Fund has found the deals fit within its program parameters with the nation, and Zambia’s official creditor committee said it provided comparable debt relief to what they had agreed to, according to Musokotwane.The southern African nation is in a 38-month program with the IMF that ends next year. While China co-chaired its official creditor committee with France, CDB and ICBC opted to negotiate individual deals as commercial lenders. “The next step is to finalize the agreements for execution,” Musokotwane said.Zambia owed CDB $469 million as at end-June, according to a mid-year update from the Finance Ministry, which didn’t provide a figure for ICBC. It’s also reached deals in-principle with Nedbank Group Ltd. and ZTE Technologies and is making progress in finalizing both, Musokotwane said. While the IMF and official creditor committee’s approvals are important, they might not be enough to get these new deals over the line. Bondholders when negotiating the restructuring of $3 billion of dollar notes included a clause known as a “most favored creditor.” That essentially means that if more favorable terms are negotiated with other creditors they need to be offered the same.Musokotwane didn’t provide details on the terms agreed to with CDB or ICBC.
