災害時の緊急融資枠組み創設　日中韓とＡＳＥＡＮ合意

　日本と中国、韓国、東南アジア諸国連合（ＡＳＥＡＮ）は７日、金沢市で財務相・中央銀行総裁代理会議を開き、危機発生時に外貨を融通し合う協定「チェンマイ・イニシアチブ」に基づき、自然災害や感染症の世界的流行などに対応する融資枠組み「緊急融資ファシリティ（ＲＦＦ）」を新設することで合意した。来年５月の閣僚級会合で詳しい制度設計を含めて正式決定する。（2023/12/07-14:54）

Japan, China, South Korea and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Thursday to launch a lending facility to respond to natural disasters and pandemics based on their Chiang Mai Initiative currency swap arrangement.
   The decision was made at a two-day meeting of deputies to the finance ministers and central bank governors of the 13-nation group known as ASEAN Plus Three held in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, from Wednesday.
   After the meeting, Japan and Indonesia issued a co-chairs' joint statement.
   The ASEAN Plus Three group decided to create the emergency financing facility in line with a proposal Japan made because the Chiang Mai Initiative arrangement was not utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic.
   Details of the planned facility will be finalized next May at a minister-level meeting.