【08.11.27 美联社】峰会取消之后法国开始出现贸易担忧

荡漾

【原文标题】Trade fears arise after China cancels EU summit
【中文标题】峰会取消之后贸易担忧出现
【登载媒体】Yahoo
【来源地址】http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081127/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_france_china_trade_1
【译者】荡漾
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【译文】
        法国商业游说团体负责人周四表示担忧中国退出原本即将到来的中欧峰会将牵连到贸易活动。

         原定该峰会下周一在法国城市里昂召开，而随着峰会而来原定有大约150-200位中国商业界人士将参加由法国雇主游说团体Medef组织的活动与欧洲同行会面。

        然而中国抗议法国总统萨科齐期待已久的与流亡藏族佛教领导人达赖喇嘛的会见，退出了峰会。

        Medef主席Laurence Parisot认为中国的决定“是一种真正的耻辱”。

        Parisot接受美联社采访时表示“我为法国企业感到担忧”。

        “我不理解什么促使中国当局做出这样的决定”，他指出美国总统小布什、英国首相布朗和德国总理默克尔都接见过达赖喇嘛却没有激起中国这次这样的反应。

        中国外交部发言人秦刚暗示说中国政府有可能还会采取经济上的报复行动。

        秦刚在周四北京的一个新闻发布会上提出质问：“既然中国和法国利益相关，既然法国领导人多次表态中国是法国的主要战略伙伴，那么他为什么要这么做”？

        “这正是我们觉得困惑的地方，为什么中国政府和人民表现出如此强烈的不满”。

        取消峰会表明和携手欧盟、携手法国在内的各国共同应对全球金融危机相比，应对针对西藏事务的批评对中共领导人来说更为重要。

        峰会原定在欧盟轮值主席国法国召开，下一个欧盟轮值主席国将是捷克，目前尚无消息称明年1月1日中国会否出席在捷克举行的峰会。

        法国财政部长Christine Lagarde周四拒绝对取消峰会发表言论。法国外交部长Bernard Kouchner称这一决定“令人难以理解”。

        欧盟发言人Johannes Laitenberger周四表示“尚无任何迹象表明其他活动会受到影响”。

【原文】

PARIS – The head of France's business lobby said Thursday she is "worried" about the trade implications of China's decision to pull out of an upcoming China-European Union summit.

The EU-China summit was planned for Monday in the French city of Lyon. On the sidelines, around 150-200 Chinese business executives had been expected to meet with European counterparts at an event organized by the French employers lobby Medef.

China called off the meeting, however, in protest at French President Nicolas Sarkozy long-awaited meeting with Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader Dalai Lama.

Medef's President Laurence Parisot called China's decision "a real shame."

"This worries me for French companies," Parisot told the Associated Press.

"I don't understand what motivated the Chinese authorities," he said, noting that the U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the Tibetan leader without provoking such a reaction.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang hinted that his government may be looking at economic reprisals as well.

"Since France has major interests in China, since the French leader repeatedly says that he takes China as a major strategic partner, then why is he doing this?" he asked at a news conference Thursday in Beijing.

"This is exactly where we feel confused and where the Chinese government and people express strong dissatisfaction."

Pulling out of the summit suggests that countering criticism on Tibet is a bigger priority for China's communist leaders than working with the EU and nations like France on solutions to the global financial crisis.

The summit was planned in France as the country currently holds the rotating EU presidency. It is unclear if China would attend a summit held in the Czech Republic, which takes the EU helm on Jan. 1.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde declined to comment Thursday on the cancellation. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called the decision "incomprehensible."

EU spokesman Johannes Laitenberger said Thursday there are "no indications whatsoever that other events are affected."

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