委内瑞拉要求英格兰银行归还31吨黄金：临时总统罗德里格斯称不会放弃追索
加拉加斯——委内瑞拉临时总统 Delcy Rodríguez 10 月 28 日在内阁会议上要求英国归还存放在英格兰银行金库中、已被冻结六年多的 31 吨委内瑞拉黄金，并指示外交部与总检察长办公室推进外交与法律追索程序。这批黄金按当前金价估值约 40 亿美元。
罗德里格斯在由国家电视台播出的会议上说：「我不会放弃要求英格兰银行归还我们的黄金。别再找借口了。这批黄金属于委内瑞拉人民，不属于英格兰银行。」她表示自己此前已直接致信英国国王查尔斯三世，请求释放这批资产。
这批黄金自 2008 年起存放在英格兰银行。2019 年，英国拒绝承认马杜罗 2018 年连任的合法性后，委内瑞拉政府失去了对这批储备的支配权；反对派领袖 Juan Guaidó 当年曾正式要求英方阻止马杜罗政府动用黄金，此后归属问题在英国法院缠讼多年。
今年 1 月马杜罗被美军抓获并移送纽约后，罗德里格斯出任临时总统，委内瑞拉与美国的关系随之转圜。8 月，临时政府与反对派一方达成共同追索这批黄金的协议；10 月 21 日，双方代表团同意成立联合委员会与伦敦方面交涉。据报道，讨论中的方案包括把黄金转存至纽约的美国联邦储备银行，其出售或用作贷款抵押须经特朗普政府批准并接受外国审计。
罗德里格斯政府把追回海外资产列为今年 6 月双震后重建筹资的重点之一。英格兰银行方面此前表示，在释放黄金之前仍需要更明确的法律依据。
Venezuela Demands the Bank of England Return 31 Tonnes of Gold: Acting President Rodríguez Says She Will Not Give Up the Claim
Caracas — Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, told a cabinet meeting on October 28 that Britain must return 31 tonnes of Venezuelan gold that have sat frozen in the Bank of England's vaults for more than six years, and she instructed the Foreign Ministry and the Attorney General's Office to advance diplomatic and legal efforts to recover them. At current prices the bullion is valued at about $4 billion.
“I will not give up demanding that the Bank of England return our gold. Enough excuses. This gold belongs to Venezuelans, not to the Bank of England,” Rodríguez said at the meeting, which was broadcast by state television. She said she had previously written directly to King Charles III requesting the release of the assets.
The gold has been deposited with the Bank of England since 2008. Venezuela's government lost access to the reserves in 2019, after Britain refused to recognize Nicolás Maduro's 2018 reelection; opposition leader Juan Guaidó formally asked British authorities that year to block the Maduro government from reaching the gold, and competing claims were litigated in British courts for years.
After Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in January and transferred to New York, Rodríguez became acting president and relations with Washington began to thaw. In August, the interim government and a sector of the opposition agreed to work jointly to recover the gold; on October 21 the two delegations agreed to set up a joint commission to engage with London. According to reports, proposals under discussion include transferring the bullion to the U.S. Federal Reserve in New York, where any sale or use as loan collateral would require the Trump administration's approval and be subject to foreign audits.
Rodríguez's government has made recovering overseas assets a priority for financing reconstruction after the twin earthquakes that struck the country in June. The Bank of England has maintained that it needs further legal clarity before the gold can be released.
来源：委内瑞拉国家电视台
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图片来源：图：位于伦敦 Threadneedle Street 的英格兰银行大楼。照片：Steve Daniels，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Bank of England building on Threadneedle Street, London. Photo by Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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