据石油世界网8月3日墨西哥城报道，墨西哥日前计划动用其雨天石油基金近一半的资金来避免在经济停滞之际削减支出。

墨西哥财政部首席经济学家亚历杭德罗·盖坦近日在墨西哥城对记者表示，墨西哥可能将从其雨天石油基金的2960亿比索(约合64亿美元)中拿出1210亿比索来填补财政收入缺口。

盖坦表示，最终金额将视年底前的缺口而定，此前第二季度有680亿比索的赤字。

总统日前在接受媒体记者采访时表示，在墨西哥国家石油公司（墨国油/Pemex）石油产量下降以后，他不想动用这笔资金来支持这家国有石油公司，因为这会给人们一种危机的感觉。

但令人失望的石油收入是造成更大范围收入赤字的原因，墨国油今年上半年的收入比预计少了1080亿比索。

盖坦重申，墨西哥计划实现基本预算盈余相当于国内生产总值1%的财政目标。这将是10年来的最高水平，其中不包括来自央行的资金转移。墨西哥政府表示，要实现这一目标，需要稳定债务与国内生产总值之比，并维护本国的信用评级。

李峻 编译自 石油世界

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Mexico to use $6.4 billion of oil fund to avoid budget cutMEXICO CITY

The nation probably will take 121 billion pesos ($6.4 billion) from the 296 billion pesos in the fund, known as FEIP, to make up for a revenue shortfall, Finance Ministry chief economist Alejandro Gaytan told reporters Wednesday in Mexico City. The final amount will depend on the gap toward year-end after a 68-billion-peso deficit through the second quarter, Gaytan said.

On Monday, AMLO, as the president is know, said in an interview that he didn't want to use the funds to support state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos following a drop in production because it could give the perception of a crisis.

But disappointing oil revenue was the cause of the broader income deficit, bringing in 108 billion pesos less than estimated in the first half of the year.

Gaytan reiterated that Mexico plans to meet its fiscal target of a primary budget surplus equivalent to 1% of gross domestic product. That would be the highest level in a decade when excluding transfers from the central bank and a goal that the government says it needs to meet to stabilize the debt-to-GDP ratio and safeguard the nation's credit rating.