2006年VOA标准英语-Lebanese Government Unanimously Accepts UN Reso

By Margaret Besheer
Beirut
13 August 2006

The Lebanese Government has unanimously accepted a U.N. Resolution that calls on Israel and Hezbollah to cease hostilities¹ following a month of fighting that has left more than 1,000 Lebanese and over 120 Israelis dead.

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The Cabinet met for more than four hours late Saturday. Following the meeting, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi announced that the resolution was accepted unanimously. He says there were some reservations and objections, but they would not affect the implementation² of the resolution. The Cabinet plans to meet Sunday to discuss the implementation.

Aridi went on to criticize Israel, saying it does not respect ethics³, international resolutions, laws, and human values. He said Israel insists on practicing what he called organized terrorism, defying the entire world and killing⁴ women and children. He says, after the issuance of the U.N. Resolution, the Cabinet considers Israel's continued terrorist practices the responsibility of the entire international community, especially the responsibility of those who wanted and still want to protect Israel. 

		abide5 by a UN ceasefire resolution " src="/upimg/allimg/070416/1028520.jpg" width="210" border="0" /> An elderly Lebanese woman watches Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah say his group would abide by a UN ceasefire resolution

The government's acceptance of the resolution came just hours after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made a televised addressed on al-Manar, the Hezbollah television channel. Nasrallah said Hezbollah would not be an obstacle to any government decision, but its ministers in the government would express their reservations about some parts of the resolution Hezbollah considers unjust and unfair. Among them, he says is that the resolution holds Hezbollah responsible for setting off the month-long conflict.

In a cross-border raid on July 12, Hezbollah fighters kidnapped two soldiers from Israel, which triggered the Israeli offensive into Lebanon.

But the Hezbollah chief warned that fighting would continue until all Israeli forces leave Lebanon, which could be weeks from now.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted Resolution 1701 seeking a "full cessation" of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah on Friday. The resolution calls for Israeli forces to withdraw from positions they have occupied in southern Lebanon in parallel with the deployment⁶ of some 15,000 Lebanese soldiers and an international force of 15,000 troops to south Lebanon.

1 hostilities   

n.战争；敌意(hostility的复数)；敌对状态；战事

参考例句：

• Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. 墨西哥要求立即停止敌对行动。
• All the old hostilities resurfaced when they met again. 他们再次碰面时，过去的种种敌意又都冒了出来。

2 implementation   

n.实施，贯彻

参考例句：

• Implementation of the program is now well underway.这一项目的实施现在行情看好。

3 ethics   

n.伦理学；伦理观，道德标准

参考例句：

• The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
• Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。

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 abide   

vi.遵守；坚持；vt.忍受

参考例句：

• You must abide by the results of your mistakes.你必须承担你的错误所造成的后果。
• If you join the club,you have to abide by its rules.如果你参加俱乐部，你就得遵守它的规章。

6 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。