Max Lawson, a policy officer at Oxfam, describes the reneging of countries on promises they made to increase aid at the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005 as a scandal.

马克斯·劳森是乐施会的一位政策官员。他说，一些国家背弃他们2005年在格伦·伊格尔斯八国峰会所作的增加援助的承诺，这是个丑闻。

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最大化财政援助贷款和奖学金

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Max Lawson, representing the aid group Oxfam, says only a trickle of that amount, about $3 billion a year, has actually been sent.

英国慈善机构乐施会的代表麦克斯。劳森说，这笔承诺的援助只有一小部分真正送到了非洲，每年仅为30亿美元左右。

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State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills said U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten met Thursday with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive to coordinate aid efforts.

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