2006年VOA标准英语-Sudan Rejects UN Peacekeepers in Darfur

By Peter Heinlein
United Nations
20 September 2006
 

Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006

President Omar al-Bashir Tuesday categorically rejected the U.N. Security Council resolution extending the mandate¹ of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Sudan to include Darfur. He spoke² to reporters through a translator shortly before addresing the U.N. General Assembly.

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"We of course do not agree to the expansion of any U.N forces presently in Sudan," he said. "We don't accept the expansion of their mandate, or their presence outside the Sudan.

The Sudanese leader said he would only accept African troops as peacekeepers, and suggested he would accept an extension of the mandate of the AU force that has tried with little success to police the vast Darfur region.

"The fact that majority of forces should be African, they should all be African under African Union's command," he said.

Mr. Bashir told the news conference conditions in Darfur are far better than what western news reports indicate. He charged that Zionist organizations are behind a campaign to spread misinformation as part of an effort to dismember Sudan.

"The media that is serving ulterior motives³ gives the idea as if the whole of Darfur is in chaos," he said.

Mr. Bashir's comments came hours after President Bush, in his U.N. General Assembly speech, repeated Washington's verdict that events in Darfur constitute genocide. Speaking directly to the region's people, Mr. Bush said he would push the Security Council to stop the killing⁴, either with Sudanese permission or not.

"The regime in Khartoum is stopping deployment⁵ of this force. If the Sudanese government does not approve this peacekeeping force quickly, the United Nations must act," he said. "Your lives and the credibility of the United Nations is at stake.

Mr. Bush called on NATO to provide more support to peacekeeping operations in Darfur.

President Bashir has in recent days indicated that he would support an extension of the African Union peacekeeping force mandate in Darfur. That mandate expires September 30. The AU Peace and Security Council meets Wednesday on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York, and is expected to approve the extension.

1 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 motives   

n.动机，目的( motive的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• to impeach sb's motives 怀疑某人的动机
• His motives are unclear. 他的用意不明。

4 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

5 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。