2007年News broadcast(2/3)-英语听力

[00:00.600]20 of the world's top economies [00:03.380]promised to help Iraq lower its debt and to help re-start global trade talks [00:09.230]after a two-day meeting in Mexico on Monday. [00:12.790]Officials from the Group of 20, [00:15.590]G-20 nations, also discussed the possibility of sanctioning countries [00:21.170]that refused to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. [00:25.600]Possible sanctions were not outlined at the meeting. [00:29.910]In a declaration released at the end of the meeting, [00:33.320]ministers called on World Trade Organization, [00:36.780]WTO members to re-start the trade talks that collapsed in Cancún last month. [00:43.870]"Nations must quickly re-energize the negotiation process, [00:48.550]recognizing that flexibility and political will from all [00:53.320]are urgently needed," it said. [00:56.100]G-20 ministers also talked about the possibility of creating a voluntary code of conduct [01:04.110]to govern negotiations between creditors and countries on the verge of defaulting on debt. [01:11.170]The code would outline the steps that should be taken to prevent a financial crisis. [01:17.700]Created in 1999 to avoid financial disasters and to keep the global economy stable, [01:26.220]the G-20 is made up of the European Union and 19 other countries including [01:32.900]Australia, Brazil, China, Japan and the US.