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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
By CCTV correspondent Stephen Fee
With political strife1 in Syria and Sudan, Yemen and Central Africa, the United Nations Security Council is expected to take a leading role in global diplomacy2 in the coming weeks. And this month, China assumes the Council's rotating presidency3. The 15 members of the UN's premier4 peace and security body have much to consider.
Liu Jieyi, Chinese ambassador to UN, says, "Now during the presidency of the Security Council China of course will be guided by the principles of objectivity, impartiality5, efficiency, pragmatism, and transparency."
In a month squeezed by holidays and procedural business, Liu says the 15 Security Council members will meet thirty times this month on some 20 agenda items.
"But the actual work of the Council might be even more for the month of November, as there are issues that we see on the horizon which will most likely be dealt with," Liu says.
Indeed, with conflicts in Mali and the Central African Republic, for example, changing by the day, the Security Council has had to become increasingly nimble and less reliant on a formalized agenda.
Bruno Stagno, Publisher of Security Concil Report and also served as Costa Rica's foreign minister and UN ambassador, says, "It's interesting to see that November, we're seeing a lot of these informal formats7 coming to the fore6. These are very good because they enable the Security Council to perform better on the early warning side."
Syria's brutal8 civil war, he says, poses perhaps the thorniest9 challenge for China as it guides the Council.
"There is a general sense among Council members that although Syria is complying on the chemical weapons front, there has been absolutely no movement in terms of humanitarian10 access and in terms of basically addressing the wider conflict, the conventional war," Stagno says.
China now contributes more than 1,700 personnel to UN peacekeeping missions worldwide and is the sixth biggest financial donor11 to peacekeeping operations.
And Stagno believes that could go hand in hand with China taking a more vocal12 leadership role on the Council.
"I do think that it's about time that as they step up in terms of their political leadership, their desire to give a certain imprimatur to the way the Council operates and also so that we can have a more equitable13 distribution of the work," Stagno says.
And the Council's work will certainly be cut out for them. In addition to agenda items covering Bosnia, Somalia, Libya, and Lebanon, the council will receive their first briefing Tuesday from the head of the joint14 UN mission charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons.
1 strife | |
n.争吵,冲突,倾轧,竞争 | |
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n.外交;外交手腕,交际手腕 | |
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3 presidency | |
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期) | |
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adj.首要的;n.总理,首相 | |
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5 impartiality | |
n. 公平, 无私, 不偏 | |
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adv.在前面;adj.先前的;在前部的;n.前部 | |
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n.(出版物的)版式( format的名词复数 );[电视]电视节目的总安排(或计划) | |
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adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的 | |
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adj.多刺的( thorny的最高级 );有刺的;棘手的;多障碍的 | |
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10 humanitarian | |
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者 | |
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n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体 | |
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adj.直言不讳的;嗓音的;n.[pl.]声乐节目 | |
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adj.公平的;公正的 | |
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