The Asian Infrastructure¹ Investment Bank (AIIB) announced last Thursday that its Board of Governors has adopted resolutions approving 13 applicants² to join the bank, bringing the bank's total approved membership to 70.

亚洲基础设施投资银行上周四宣布，其理事会已通过决议批准13个新成员的加入申请，至此该行获批的成员总数扩至70个。

This is the first time the multilateral development bank has welcomed new prospective³ members since its inception⁴.

这是这个多边发展银行开业以来第一次扩员。

The approved applicants are five regional prospective members - Afghanistan, Armenia, Fiji, China's Hong Kong and Timor Leste - and eight non-regional prospective members, namely Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, Hungary, Ireland, Peru, Sudan and Venezuela.

此次获批的是5个域内意向成员--阿富汗、亚美尼亚、斐济、中国香港和东帝汶；和8个非域内意向成员--比利时、加拿大、埃塞俄比亚、匈牙利、爱尔兰、秘鲁、苏丹和委内瑞拉。

"The interest in joining the AIIB from around the world affirms the rapid progress we have made to establish the bank as an international institution," said Jin Liqun, president of the AIIB.

亚投行行长金立群称：“世界各国对加入亚投行的兴趣印证了亚投行作为一个国际机构自成立以来所取得的快速进展。”

"I am very proud that AIIB now has members from almost every continent, and we anticipate further applications being considered by our Board of Governors later this year," he said.

他说道：“我很骄傲，亚投行现在已经几乎每个大洲都有成员，我们期待在今年晚些时候理事会批准更多的申请。”

The 13 prospective members will officially join AIIB once they complete the required domestic processes and deposit the first installment⁵ of capital with the bank.

在走完各自的国内程序，并在亚投行缴纳完首笔资本金之后，这13个准成员就将正式加入亚投行。