中国-led AIIB 認可するs seven new members ahead of new Silk Road 首脳会議
BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - The 中国-支援するd Asian 組織／基盤／下部構造 投資 Bank (AIIB) said on Saturday it had 認可するd seven new members to join the bank, a day before 中国's biggest 外交の event of the year kicks off.
Leaders from 29 countries will …に出席する 中国's new Silk Road 会議 in Beijing on Sunday and Monday, an event orchestrated to 促進する Xi's 見通し of 拡大するing links between Asia, Africa and Europe underpinned by billions of dollars in 組織／基盤／下部構造 投資.
代表s from around the world will …に出席する 含むing the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and North Korea.
The new members are Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, Cyprus, Greece, Romania and Samoa, bringing the bank's total 会員の地位 to 77 countries.
The bank's 大統領，／社長 Jin Liqun held a 共同の 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 with Chilean 大統領 Michelle Bachelet to 発表する the new members.
"Better 組織／基盤／下部構造 across Asia will 許す Chilean goods to 接近 new markets, more 投資 in Chilean 組織／基盤／下部構造 in turn will その上の 貯蔵所d together the two 広大な／多数の／重要な continents of Asia and Latin America," said Jin.
"We think there are a lot of 事業／計画（する）s that can link Asia with or through Latin America," said Bachelet, 追加するing that she had spoken with Jin about the 可能性 of 投資するing in a Trans-太平洋の 視覚の fibre cable to 改善する 数字表示式の connectivity between Asia and Latin America.
"The cable could be considered a part of the 'One Belt, One Road 率先' and transform the 太平洋の Ocean into a 橋（渡しをする） between our 地域s," she 追加するd, using another 指名する for 中国's "Belt and Road 率先" or new Silk Road 計画（する）.
Other 投資s could 含む tunnels and 主要道路s across the Andes Mountains and ports to link Latin America and South America to Asia, Bachelet 追加するd.
Thirteen 見込みのある new AIIB members from around the world, 含むing Canada, were 認可するd in March.
"拡大するd 会員の地位 to Africa, Europe and South America, along with the 新規加入 of f urther members in Asia shows the level of 全世界の かかわり合い に向かって the bank's 使節団 and illustrates the 勢い that has gathered since 20 countries 調印するd 初期の 覚え書き on 設立するing the bank いっそう少なく than three years ago," said Jin.
The 多国間の 会・原則, seen as a 競争相手 to the Western-支配するd World Bank and Asian 開発 Bank, was 最初 …に反対するd by the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs but attracted many U.S. 同盟（する）s 含むing Britain, Germany, Australia and South Korea as 設立するing members. (報告（する）／憶測ing by 告訴する-Lin Wong; Editing by Eric Meijer)
