[ti:G20 Leaders Talk About Economy -- and Iran ]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:WWW.51VOA.COM]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.06]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.25]This week,
[00:10.54]leaders of the top industrial
[00:12.84]and developing economies gathered
[00:16.08]in the eastern United States.
[00:18.76]They met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
[00:21.81]for a summit on the world's financial future.
[00:25.85]Leaders of the Group of Twenty have now
[00:29.43]met three times in less than a year
[00:32.41]to deal with the worst recession
[00:35.30]since the nineteen thirties.
[00:37.84]Many of their governments
[00:40.24]have used spending programs
[00:42.78]to inject five trillion dollars
[00:46.16]into their economies.
[00:48.10]These stimulus efforts have had some success.
[00:52.73]Now, the question is how and when
[00:56.51]to withdraw that support
[00:58.70]without harming a recovery,
[01:01.44]and how to avoid a repeat
[01:04.18]of the financial crisis.
[01:06.57]The leaders agreed to make the G20 the main group
[01:11.90]for their international economic cooperation,
[01:15.69]instead of the G8.
[01:17.98]The G20 is nineteen countries
[01:21.81]and the European Union.
[01:24.20]It includes fast-growing economies
[01:27.68]in the developing world like China,
[01:30.77]India and Brazil.
[01:33.51]Earlier this week,
[01:35.75]world leaders attended
[01:37.44]the United Nations General Assembly
[01:40.22]in New York.
[01:41.72]President Obama, in a speech on Wednesday,
[01:45.44]sought to distance himself
[01:48.18]from some of the policies of George W. Bush.
[01:52.37]BARACK OBAMA: "Those who used to chastise America
[01:54.31]for acting alone in the world
[01:56.30]cannot now stand by and wait for American
[01:58.80]to solve the world's problems alone.
[02:01.24]We have sought in word and deed
[02:06.47]for a new era of engagement with the world."
[02:09.71]On Thursday, the Security Council
[02:12.44]approved a resolution to increase efforts
[02:15.74]toward a world without nuclear weapons.
[02:19.12]All fifteen members voted
[02:22.17]for the resolution proposed
[02:24.16]by the United States.
[02:25.90]The five permanent members
[02:28.49]are the United States,
[02:30.24]Britain, China, France and Russia.
[02:33.87]Those five plus Germany have been preparing
[02:38.35]to meet with Iranian negotiators
[02:40.79]on October first to discuss
[02:43.53]Iran's nuclear program.
[02:46.12]On Friday, there were new demands
[02:49.52]for Iran to follow Security Council resolutions
[02:53.95]to halt nuclear enrichment.
[02:57.28]The American, British and French leaders
[03:01.18]announced that Iran has been secretly building
[03:05.17]a second enrichment center for several years.
[03:09.60]American officials say the information
[03:13.40]was made public after Iran discovered
[03:17.18]that Western intelligence agencies
[03:20.11]knew about the facility.
[03:22.95]Iran informed the International
[03:26.09]Atomic Energy Agency
[03:28.52]in Vienna earlier this week.
[03:31.41]Enriched uranium can be used
[03:34.40]as fuel for nuclear energy
[03:37.63]-- as Iran says
[03:39.17]-- or it can be used for nuclear bombs.
[03:43.35]French President Nicolas Sarkozy said,
[03:46.94]"If by December,
[03:48.68]there is not an in-depth change
[03:51.65]by the Iranian leaders,
[03:53.79]sanctions will have to be taken."
[03:56.62]In New York,
[03:58.61]Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
[04:02.20]President Obama will regret saying
[04:05.73]that Iran has been building a secret facility.
[04:09.91]He said Iran met I.A.E.A. rules
[04:15.09]by informing the agency early enough
[04:18.18]that the facility was being built.
[04:21.25]Russia and China both urged Iran
[04:25.87]to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear agency
[04:29.26]on any investigation.
[04:31.95]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:35.70]in VOA Special English.
[04:38.88]For more news from the G20 meeting,
[04:42.07]go to 51voa.com.
[04:46.05]I'm Steve Ember.
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