|
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is a regional development bank established by the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2006. The Bank currently has six member states, including Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Other states and international organisations are able to become members by signing up to the Bank’s founding Agreement. ==History and functions== EDB was founded on the initiative of the Presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan formalised by the signing of an International Agreement on 12 January 2006. The Bank began operating in June 2006 when laws ratifying the Agreement came into force. Armenia and Tajikistan joined EDB in 2009, Belarus in 2010, and Kyrgyzstan in 2011. The Bank's mission is to facilitate, through its investment activity, the development of market economies, economic growth and the expansion of trade and other economic ties in its member states. The Bank’s charter capital totals US $7 billion, including US $1.5 billion of paid-in capital and US $5.5 billion of callable capital. The member states hold the following shares in the Bank’s capital: the Russian Federation 65.97%, the Republic of Kazakhstan 32.99%, the Republic of Belarus 0.99%, the Republic of Tajikistan 0.03%, the Republic of Armenia 0.01%, and the Kyrgyz Republic 0.01%. EDB’s operations are governed by international law. As such the Bank: * has international legal capacity; * enjoys the rights of a legal entity in its member states; * has special legal status allowing it certain privileges in its member states, including property and judicial immunity, special tax and customs privileges, and exemptions which protect the Bank from some of the costs and risks associated with changes in the legislation and banking regulations in its member states; and * has the status of a preferred creditor. The Bank’s headquarters is located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. EDB has a branch in St. Petersburg and representative offices in Astana, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Yerevan, Minsk, and Moscow. The Bank has the status of an international organisation. In January 2013, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recognised EDB as a multilateral financial institution with risk classification 3 and buyer risk classification SOV/CC0. EDB has had observer status at: * the UN General Assembly since 2007, * the Trade and Development Board of UNCTAD since 2009, * the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) since 2008, and * the International Investment Bank (IIB) since 2014. EDB is: * a member of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA); * an institutional member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) (from 2014); and * a member of the Multilateral Financing Institutions Working Group on Environment (from 2012). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eurasian Development Bank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|