France, Germany and Italy will become the shareholders of the Asian Bank of infrastructure investment
Almaty. March 17. Silkroadnews - France, Germany and Italy will become the shareholders of the Asian Bank of infrastructure investments (Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank), RBC reports.
As recalled in an article, earlier its intention to join the AIIB founding members announced UK. Meanwhile, the decision of London to join the AIIB was taken after public criticism of UK by the US.
The initiative for the establishment of the bank in 2013 was made by the head Xi Jinping. Agreement on the establishment of a new international financial institution was signed in October 2014 by representatives of 21 countries, including India, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan , Qatar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uzbekistan.
China then stated the readiness to make most or even all of the amount of volume of $50 billion in start-up capital of the bank. Later, however, Beijing proposed to increase the authorized capital of the organization up to $100 billion