埃维昂八国峰会展望

As a conservatively oriented concert,the G8 performsbest when it confronts a widespread array(排列)of serious,interrelated(相关的)challenges,led by readily(容易地)rec-ognizable second shocks that expose the vulnerabilities andthreaten the core interests and common democratic(民主的)values that all G8 members share.As the first half of 2003unfoldS(显露,呈现),the world is producing more than enonghof such demands to call forth a forceful G8 response.Thesechallenges arose simultaneously(同时地)and interrelatedly ineach of the political-security,economic,and North-Southdomains(区域).In each field they offer some immediate threatsthat all G8 members are affiicted(使痛苦、折磨)by,can readilyrecognize from earlier shocks,and can see as assaults on thecommon democratic values the G8 was created to protect.

Prospects for the G8 Evian Summit