国际英语新闻：Billions pledged at donors conference as UN chief calls for wholesale rebuilding of Haiti

The conference, co-chaired by Brazil, Canada, the European Union, France and Spain, brought together representatives from more than 130 countries.

Brazil pledged 172 million dollars and Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign affairs chief, announced the EU's pledge of roughly 1.6 billion dollars.

Montenegro pledged 10,000 dollars, with Georgia and Estonia each promising to donate 100,000 dollars.

The international donor conference for Haiti is held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the United States, March 31, 2010. The international donor conference, with the theme of "Towards a New Future in Haiti," started on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York to secure the financial resources necessary for rebuilding Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake