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ce and resource necessary to help with its debt problem. Andrew Walker reports from Washingron .
Mr . Str auss -khn was responding to a Greek journalist who said the Greek public are demonizing the IMF that they fear things will be worse with IMF involvement . The agency has a reputation for requiring borrowing countries to make deep cuts in popular government spending programs . Mr . Strauss-Kahn said the Greek people should think of the IMF as a cooperative organization and advice on behalf of the internatonal community.
9g20财政部长达成协议
Finance ministers of the world's leading industrialized and developing countries,the G20,have agreed to continue supporting the global economic recovery . In a statement released after their meeting in Scotland , the ministers said conditions had improved,but economic and financial recovery was uneven and unemployment a worry . Andrew Walker reports .
The communipue avoids complacency . Although economic and financial conditions have improved, they decided they still need to keep up the initiatives intended to restore growth . The meeting was , however , rather overshadowed by a statement from the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ,suggesting a tax on financial transactions as on of a number of options for making banks pay for the crisis . His calls have been received politely by the finance ministers but several made remarks which suggest that other ways of tackling the problem are rather more likely to be adopted .
10 欧盟达成协议。终止了香蕉贸易争端
The European Union has initialed an agreement to end one of the world's longest-tunning trade disputes over bananas . The EU , the world's biggest importer of bananas , is to cut the duty it imposes on Latin American producers of the fruit ,while bananas grows in former European colonies will gradually lose the preferential terms they've enjoyed. Anderw Walker reports.
The deal signed in Geneva commits the European Union to gradually lowering the tariffs it imposes on bananas imported mainly from Latin America. The cut will be over a third by 2017. That will reduce the competitive advantage of a group of countries , mainly former colonies of EU states in Africa and Caribbean, which enjoyed tariff-free access. The EU plans to provide those countries with some compensation , in a shape of nearly 300000 dollars in additional aid.
11科技‘太阳能飞机
The long-awaited take-off of the solar impulse was greeted with delight by those who have spent the last seven years working on it .
The solar-powered plane has the wing-span of a jumbo jet,but weighs less than a family car . It doesn't use a single drop of aviation fuel , instead its giant wings are covered with solar cellls . The project is the brainchild of Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard --he sees
the solar impulse as a sign of things to come.
12英国学校开设普通话课程
It's the world's fastest growing economy and shows no sign of slowing down , so