2006年VOA标准英语-Sudan Under Fire for Blocking Egeland Visi

By Cathy Majtenyi
Nairobi
05 April 2006

The Sudanese government is under fire for blocking the visit of a top United Nations official to Darfur and Chad and for ordering a Norwegian aid group to leave Darfur.

Jan Egeland (file photo)   
  
United Nations humanitarian¹ relief coordinator² Jan Egeland late Tuesday accused the Sudanese government of trying to hide the suffering of thousands of displaced people and the deteriorating³ security situation in Darfur.

Egeland told reporters in Nairobi that his presence in Darfur and in refugee camps in neighboring Chad, which he could not get to because the Sudanese government would not let him fly over Darfur, would have re-focused international attention on what he calls "the worst crisis in the world."

The United States and other top U.N. officials have also condemned⁴ the Sudanese government for blocking the visit.

 
Demonstrators in Khartoum protest deployment⁵ of UN peacekeepers in Darfur and demand expulsion of top UN and US envoys⁶ in Sudan 
  
Also on Tuesday, the Sudanese government ordered the Norwegian Refugee Council to immediately stop its humanitarian work in the region.

David Mozersky is senior analyst⁷ with the International Crisis Group. He says he thinks the Sudanese government did not want Egeland, as other U.N. officials have done before him, to highlight the seriousness of the Darfur crisis.

He also criticizes the Sudanese government for sending the Norwegian Refugee Council packing.

"With the security situation worsening as well, particularly in West Darfur, humanitarian access has been deteriorating," said Mozersky.  "So it's a critical time. It's certainly not helpful, and is in fact quite dangerous if the government is going to return to their earlier policies of severe restrictions⁸ and bureaucratic⁹ obstacles on humanitarian access."

Mozersky says that, several weeks ago, the Sudanese government shut down another aid agency in Darfur.

An adviser¹⁰ to Sudan's ministry¹¹ of information and communications, Rabia Abdel Atti, tells VOA he believes the Sudanese government blocked Egeland's Darfur trip for fear that the U.N. official would spread false information about the region to the international community.

Atti says on-going negotiations¹² in Nigeria between the government and two rebel groups operating in Darfur are on the verge¹³ of a major breakthrough, and that Egeland's visit would have a negative influence on the rebels during the talks.

"This will make them [the rebels] not be flexible in negotiations with Sudan government and they would think that maybe Sudan government will insist upon some points, and this will make the rebels not to understand the situation and will prolong the negotiations," he said.

Atti says the Sudanese government will not allow any information that will not help the negotiations to be disseminated¹⁴, and says the government has the right to restrict Egeland and anyone else from flying in Sudanese airspace.

Atti says he is not aware of the situation with the Norwegian Refugee Council, but that the government allows many aid groups to work in Darfur.

The three-year-old Darfur conflict involves two main rebel groups, government troops and a militia¹⁵ many say is backed by the government. The United Nations estimates that some 200,000 people have died in the fighting and two million others have been displaced.

1 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

2 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

3 deteriorating   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
• I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚，大家情绪低落，各个工厂越搞越坏。

4 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

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。

6 envoys   

使节( envoy的名词复数 )； 公使； 谈判代表； 使节身份

参考例句：

• the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
• Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。

7 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

8 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

9 bureaucratic   

adj.官僚的，繁文缛节的

参考例句：

• The sweat of labour washed away his bureaucratic airs.劳动的汗水冲掉了他身上的官气。
• In this company you have to go through complex bureaucratic procedures just to get a new pencil.在这个公司里即使是领一支新铅笔，也必须通过繁琐的手续。

10 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

11 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

12 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

13 verge   

n.边，边缘；v.接近，濒临

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。

14 disseminated   

散布，传播( disseminate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Their findings have been widely disseminated . 他们的研究成果已经广为传播。
• Berkovitz had contracted polio after ingesting a vaccine disseminated under federal supervision. 伯考维茨在接种了在联邦监督下分发的牛痘疫苗后传染上脊髓灰质炎。

15 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。