Mr Ban stressed that new infections have dropped by 20% since 2001 - the year when world leaders first pledged to act to control the pandemic.

潘基文先生强调从2001年起新感染者已降低了20% -而这一年也是世界领导人第一次保证采取行动控制流感。

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The two leaders first resumed high-level contact between the two nations with a brief conversation two weeks ago in Paris at an international climate conference.

两个星期前，这两位领导人在巴黎一个国际气候会议上进行了短暂交谈，首次恢复两国间高层接触。

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On the first floor are the offices of leaders.

第一层是领导办公室。

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Opposition Republican leaders agree on the need to raise the borrowing limit by August second or risk the nation's first default.

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery.

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But northern and southern leaders could not agree on which one to build first.

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Since the G20 leaders first met in November, their deputies have laboured on reforms to the stricken global financial system, in particular through the Financial Stability Forum (FSF), a Basel-based group that met in London this week.

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Cypriot leaders must first reach agreement with their fellow members of the EU, he added.

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The relationship between these two leaders is first of all geopolitical and then economic.

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