墨西哥将为墨国油提供仅一年的财政支持

据路透社4月12日华盛顿报道，墨西哥财政部长Carlos Urzua周五表示，墨西哥将通过动用其预算稳定基金，为其境况不佳的墨西哥国家石油公司（墨国油/Pemex）提供一年的“生命线”，排除了政府将承担这笔债务的可能性。

墨国油有1060亿美元的金融债务，它是世界上负债最多的石油公司，正处在信用降级为“垃圾”的边缘，投资者对发行新债券的可能性并没有表现出什么热情。

投资者也越来越担心，如果墨国油的评级被下调，或者政府对该公司的新支持损害了联邦财政，墨西哥的主权信用评级将受到影响。

Urzua在华盛顿举行的国际货币基金组织会议上表示：“我们想要做的是，如果墨国油不想进入市场，就允许他们不进入市场，只有一次且只在今年来减免它的部分债务，之后这就是他们的问题。”

墨西哥预算稳定基金的设立是为了在国际油价突然波动的情况下减轻对公共财政的影响。

詹晓晶    摘自    路透社

原文如下：

Mexico to offer Pemex lifeline of 'only one year' -Finance Minister

Mexico will offer its ailing state oil company Pemex a lifeline for only one year by dipping into its budget stabilization fund, Finance Minister Carlos Urzua said on Friday, ruling out that the government will absorb the debt.

With $106 billion in financial debt, Pemex is the world’s most indebted oil company and is teetering on the brink of having its debt downgraded to junk. Investors have shown little enthusiasm about the possibility of a new bond issuance.

Investors are also increasingly concerned that Mexico’s sovereign rating will suffer if Pemex is downgraded or if new government support for the company hurts federal finances.

“What we want to do is to allow Pemex not to go to the market if they don’t want to go to the market,” Urzua said at an event at the IMF World Bank meetings in Washington. “Take off part of its debt. Once. only this year. Later on, that is their problem.”

Mexico’s budget stabilization fund was set up to cushion the effects on public finances if there are sudden variations in international oil prices.