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英语课
By Lisa Schlein
Geneva
04 October 2007

Talks to open up world trade hold the key to prosperity for poor countries, Liberia's Foreign Minister said on Thursday. The minister made her remarks at a forum 1 on globalization at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, where Lisa Schlein reports for VOA.


Liberia, emerging after 14 years of civil war, is one of the poorest countries in the world. About 80 percent of its population lives on $1 a day. Only 20 percent is literate 2.


The country's foreign minister, Olubanke King-Akerele, is hoping the Doha round of negotiations 3, launched nearly six years ago to boost the world economy by opening up trade, will provide a much-needed boost for the country's economy.


Unlike previous global trade negotiations, it aims specifically to help developing countries by rebalancing world trade rules.


King-Akerele said increased trading opportunities from the Doha round would not only provide hope to people in Liberia but would help in ...


"Strengthening peace and building security, regional and internal through economic revitalization which is essential, if not the most vital task for Liberia," she said. "Our integration 4 into the world economy. Linking farmers, small businesses and entrepreneurs with external markets will play a central role in the economic revitalization of Liberia."


Diplomats 5 have been working intensely in Geneva in recent weeks to conclude a Doha deal.


The United States is under pressure to cut farm subsidies 6 and other rich countries in the European Union to cut their tariffs 7 on agricultural products. In return, rich countries want developing nations to open up their markets to manufactured goods by cutting tariffs.


Despite the talk about equitable 8 trade, King-Akerele says not everyone benefits equally.


She says the WTO and the countries negotiating a new trade agreement have it within their power to create a more just system.


"If Doha fails, the international community will have failed the global poor," she said. "The achievable goal is to create a synergy where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Let us work to dispel 9 any notion of a zero sum game in which rich countries or poor countries win at the expense of the other. Instead, let us create a fair-trade framework, one that emphasizes equitable development, that will expand the pie and extend maximum benefits to all."


WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy told forum participants progress is being made in the key agriculture and industry talks, and negotiations are speeding up in other areas such as services, which account for more than two thirds of the global economy.




n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
n.学者;adj.精通文学的,受过教育的
  • Only a few of the nation's peasants are literate.这个国家的农民中只有少数人能识字。
  • A literate person can get knowledge through reading many books.一个受过教育的人可以通过读书而获得知识。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
n.一体化,联合,结合
  • We are working to bring about closer political integration in the EU.我们正在努力实现欧盟內部更加紧密的政治一体化。
  • This was the greatest event in the annals of European integration.这是欧洲统一史上最重大的事件。
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.补贴,津贴,补助金( subsidy的名词复数 )
  • European agriculture ministers failed to break the deadlock over farm subsidies. 欧洲各国农业部长在农业补贴问题上未能打破僵局。
  • Agricultural subsidies absorb about half the EU's income. 农业补贴占去了欧盟收入的大约一半。 来自《简明英汉词典》
关税制度; 关税( tariff的名词复数 ); 关税表; (旅馆或饭店等的)收费表; 量刑标准
  • British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs. 保护性关税使英国工业免受国际竞争影响。
  • The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade. 新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。
adj.公平的;公正的
  • This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
  • Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
vt.驱走,驱散,消除
  • I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.我试图消除她的疑虑,但没有成功。
  • We hope the programme will dispel certain misconceptions about the disease.我们希望这个节目能消除对这种疾病的一些误解。
学英语单词
AAP (analyst assistance program)
air operating electric light
airbrushed
albizzin
amberized
antiartillery
autobike
balancing procedure
basal cell carcinoma of face
bearing holder
Bogatyrëvo
boot-leg
British Accounting Association
Brocard point
bucephala islandicas
Camellia parafurfuracea
carbon circuit breaker
centrifugal tar extractor
cinnabar moths
computer literacies
creepage distance
cushioned-seat coach
Darcy law of resistance
denomination currency
diddlysquats
discretionary wiring machine
double break contact
ductile fracture
dynamic balance test
e and m leads
ectopocystis
esophageal sarcoma
feareth
filsting
for-loop block
French type machinist's hammer
full-point
fuselis
hexachaetous
high frequency feeder
home monitoring
honeybush
impracticalities
intrinsicates
jeans' radiation law
kerb-crawlers
Kopites
Kārvāndar, Rūdkhāneh-ye
liability to outsiders
Lumsum
made mountains of molehills
magnetic isoanomalous line
malakoplakia of genitourinary system
male - pattern baldness
Mboula
microdosimetricspectra
microfilariae
Mitsuze-tōge
nasty-looking
non-contact magnetic recording
non-hazardous area
nonsister chromatids
officery
on all sides
opercular fold
perseverances
Piliophen
piquant sauce
Plexus venosus vesicalis
postdiction
precision thermometer
Puccinia scleriae
pulsus aequalis
radio frequency energy
rag-and-bone
reductios
retractable bit
reviviscible
rigger brush
ringing generator
sambas
SearchMash
sequential testing
single-phase three wire system
skandas
solar spectrum
songvid
spatial disequilibrium
squarenesses
stared out
Tar River
td.
think ... up
transabled
translation operation
tubularian
u-shaped adapter
upthrust bearing
vitamin K-1
VSIP
wall gecko
water-rot