Summit weighs new global economy rules

首脑会议权衡全球经济新秩序 （译文详见原文后）


BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Asian and European leaders met Saturday for the second day of their biennial summit after calling for new rules for the world's financial system and a larger role for the International Monetary Fund.







The two-day ASEM summit, being held this year in Beijing, China, brings together the leaders of 43 Asian and European nations. The heads of the European Commission and ASEAN, a group of southeastern Asian nations, are also part of the meeting.

While the summit is usually a forum for political, economic and cultural issues, it has taken on added significance this year because of the global financial crisis.

Leaders at the summit called Friday for new rules in dealing with international finance. They also urged a leading role for the IMF to help countries like Iceland and Pakistan that are struggling with the current crisis.


"We represent three-fifths of the world's population and produce half of global GDP," said Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission. "Our combined action can and should make a real difference."

In a statement released Friday, the ASEM nations said the crisis can be overcome if all countries take "firm, decisive and effective measures in a responsible and timely manner." They called on the international community to boost coordination and cooperation to restore market confidence, stabilize the markets, and promote financial growth.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, called for a radical overhaul of the world's financial system. He called for Asian support ahead of next month's financial summit of G20 leaders in the United States.


"Europe wishes that Asia will support our efforts so together we can tell the world on November 15 that the causes of this crisis, which has no precedence, will not continue to be reproduced on the financial and monetary system," Sarkozy said Friday. "For that, we need to draft some common responses."

Friday's joint statement said there must be more supervision and regulation of all "financial actors" and that they need to be kept accountable. They said all countries need to strengthen oversight and crisis management mechanisms.

Asian countries have not been as sharply affected by the current crisis as those in Europe, in part because they weren't as exposed to the subprime mortgage problems.

Still, growth in Asia is slowing. China announced this week that its GDP growth had slowed to 9.9 percent in the first three quarters of the year -- the lowest in five years.



北京，中国（CNN ） - 星期六在两年一次的高端峰会上，亚洲和欧洲高层首脑呼吁新的世界金融体系规则和国际货币基金会发挥更大的作用。

这次为期两天的亚欧首脑会议，今年在中国北京举行，汇集了43个亚洲和欧洲国家的领导人。欧洲委员会的元首和东盟，一些东南亚国家，也都参加了会议。

首脑会议通常进行关于政治，经济和文化问题的讨论，今年加入了具有重要意义的全球金融危机。

领导人在周五的首脑会议上呼吁在处理国际金融事务上制定新的规则。他们还敦促国际货币基金组织发挥主导作用，以帮助诸如冰岛和巴基斯坦这样的一些正在努力与目前危机抗争中的国家。

“我们代表世界人口的五分之三，并产生全球生产总值的一半，”欧盟委员会主席巴罗佐表示， “我们的联合行动可以而且应该发挥真正的作用。 ”

星期五亚欧各国发表的一份声明表示，危机是可以克服的，如果所有国家都“以负责任和及时有效的态度采取坚定，果断和有效的措施。 ”他们呼吁国际社会加强协调与合作，以恢复市场信心，稳定市场，促进经济增长。

目前担任欧洲联盟轮值主席国的法国国家总统萨科奇，呼吁对世界金融体系大刀阔斧的改革。他呼吁亚洲继续支持下个月在美国举行的财政首脑20国领导人会议。

“欧洲的愿望是，希望亚洲将会支持我们的努力，使我们能够在11月15日一起告诉全世界这场前所未有的世界经济危机的起因，将不会再有优势继续进行金融和货币体系这样的复制和重演， ”萨科齐说， “为此，我们需要规划一些共同的决议草案。”

星期五的联合声明说，必须对所有的金融从业者有更多的监督和管理，他们必须不断的担负起责任。他们认为所有国家都需要加强监督和危机管理机制。

亚洲国家没有像那些欧洲国家那样受到当前危机的大幅影响，部分原因是因为他们没有暴发严重的次级抵押贷款问题。

然而，亚洲经济增长率正在放缓。中国本周宣布，今年头三个季度其国内生产总值增长已放慢到9.9%，是最近五年来最低的水平。