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By Stephanie Ho
Washington
07 August 2006
Israel and Lebanon are reacting coolly to a draft United Nations resolution that calls for a cessation of hostilities1 between Israel and the Hezbollah militant2 group in Lebanon. The U.N. Security Council is discussing the resolution, which is to be followed up with a second resolution establishing a multi-national force to help maintain the peace.
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President Bush's national security advisor4, Stephen Hadley, told CNN's Late Edition he hopes action on the resolution comes within days, not weeks. "Our hope is to get it voted on sometime Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning, because we want to get that resolution adopted as a first step toward bringing down the violence, moving very quickly to a second resolution, which would involve a multi-national force and call for the Lebanese army to move in to southern Lebanon, backed by that multi-national force," he said.
He added that the United States supports what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has described as efforts to implement5 a more enduring peace in the region. "It is a two-step process. We've used this two-step process so that we can get this first resolution, get the violence down, buy a little time in order to put the multi-national force together, and then move into a second resolution, and into what we hope will be a sustainable ceasefire in this conflict," he said.
On the same program, Israeli Vice6 Premier7 Shimon Peres said his country has no immediate8 reaction to the draft U.N. resolution, because it has not yet been finalized9. "But I want to remind you that Israel has implemented10 all of the United Nations' resolutions concerning Lebanon. Not that this helped very much. But we kept our respect to the United Nations. We will wait another couple of days for the first resolution, because the first resolution must be followed by a second resolution, and then the second resolution has to be implemented. So, there is no sense to react ahead of time," he said.
Lebanese Economy Minister Sami Haddad used stronger language, calling the draft resolution disappointing. He re-emphasized calls for an urgent and immediate ceasefire, saying it is the Lebanese people who have so far borne the largest brunt of the fighting. "So we want a definite end to this war and we want the Lebanese army, with the help of an international force mandated11 by the U.N., to protect us from the wrath12 of the strongest war machine in the region, that is raining terror and catastrophe13 on Lebanon," he said.
The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah broke out more than three weeks ago, after Hezbollah militants14 raided Israeli territory and abducted15 two Israeli soldiers. Israeli military officials say they have arrested one of the Hezbollah guerrillas who took part in last month's abduction.
1 hostilities | |
n.战争;敌意(hostility的复数);敌对状态;战事 | |
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2 militant | |
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士 | |
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3 coastal | |
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的 | |
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4 advisor | |
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者 | |
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5 implement | |
n.(pl.)工具,器具;vt.实行,实施,执行 | |
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n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的 | |
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adj.首要的;n.总理,首相 | |
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adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的 | |
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vt.完成(finalize的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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10 implemented | |
v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 );执行;贯彻;使生效 | |
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11 mandated | |
adj. 委托统治的 | |
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12 wrath | |
n.愤怒,愤慨,暴怒 | |
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13 catastrophe | |
n.大灾难,大祸 | |
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14 militants | |
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 ) | |
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15 abducted | |
劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展 | |
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