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浏览:9042006-11-18 22:52:21 来自cxyf413: download Leaders from Asia and the Pacific Rim have said at their summit in Vietnam that they are ready to take the lead in breaking the deadlock in world trade talks. The statement says they will make real cuts in industrial tariffs and they urge major economic powers to make bigger reductions in farm subsidies. From Hanoi, Bill Hayton reports. “The APEC Summit includes some of the world’s biggest economies, the United States, Japan, South Korea and China. So the declaration that each of them is ready to make bigger reductions in subsidies and lower trade barriers could be a significant step towards restarting negotiations. However, several of the world’s most important agricultural producers, the European Union, Indian and Brazil, aren’t represented in the APEC and there can be no progress on the issue without them also offering concessions. The talks, the World Trade Organization clapped in July, partly because the EU, led by France, refused to give any further ground on the issue.” The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who’s also attending the APEC meeting, has urged Burma and North Korea to follow the example set by Vietnam when it put the war with the United States behind it. “If the leaders of Burma and North Korea were to follow the example of Vietnam, if they make the strategic choice and take the necessary steps to join the international community, it will open a new path of peace and opportunity.” A meeting of the G20 grouping of developing countries has sparked protest by anti-globalization demonstrators in the Australian city of Melbourne. The demonstrators tore down barricades outside the Summit of G20 Finance Ministers and central bankers. The Ministers are expected to discuss energy security, climate change and the state of the world economy during their two-day meeting. The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has said instability there poses a serious threat to peace and prosperity in the wide region. Speaking at an international conference in India, Mr. Karzai said extremism and violence by militant groups remained a fearsome challenge. The meeting in Delhi is aimed to improving Afghanistan’s economy by involving its neighbors in reconstruction. From Delhi, the BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder reports. “Afghanistan’s unique position in south and central Asia has meant that it has major security and economic implications for some of its more powerful and influential regional neighbors. Now they’ve come together, along with some G8 countries, to pledge more funds and find new ways of rebuilding the country after several years of conflict. Their efforts come, even as a resurging Taliban poses new threats to NATO and American forces in Afghanistan. More than 3,000 people have died in the country this year and earlier this week a top US General warned that the violence were set to worsen.” 楼主
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