2006年VOA标准英语-EU's Solana Visits Beirut for Talks on Relation

By John Featherly
Washington
28 October 2006

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana visited Beirut Saturday to meet with Lebanese officials and the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force there.  

joint1 press conference after their meeting in Beirut" src="/upimg/allimg/070505/1514580.jpg" width="210" border="0" /> European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, left and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora talk to reporters during a joint press conference after their meeting in Beirut

Solana's one day visit to Beirut focused on European relations with Lebanon and the U.N. peacekeeping force, which is made up largely of Europeans.

Following talks with Lebanon's foreign minister, Solana said Europe wants its relations with Lebanon to grow. "We would like to see it evolving towards the future, and recuperating² the energy and the capacity, economic and peacefully to their own full sovereignty, so that relationships between the EU and Lebanon can be deepened," he said.

Solana said the European Union is satisfied with progress made since August, when a U.N. resolution ended fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon.

The resolution called for a larger U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, near the Israeli border. Seven-thousand peacekeepers are currently in the area, and the peacekeeping force could expand to 15,000. "I think the application of the resolution has been done, in the correct fashion, from the UNIFIL point of view," he said.

Solana's stop in Beirut is part of a six-day trip to the Middle East. He earlier met with officials in Israel and the West Bank for talks on reviving the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Solana also visits Jordan and Egypt.

1 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

2 recuperating   

v.恢复（健康、体力等），复原( recuperate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He's still recuperating from his operation. 他动了手术，还在恢复。
• He is recuperating from a serious back injury. 他背部受了重伤，目前正在康复中。 来自辞典例句