2006年VOA标准英语-Sudan Rejects UN Resolution on Darfur Peacekeep

By Cathy Majtenyi
Nairobi
01 September 2006

The Sudanese government has expressed its strong opposition¹ to Thursday's United Nations' Security Council resolution that calls for a U.N. peacekeeping force in the volatile² Darfur region. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi.

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Sudanese Vice³ President Ali Osman Taha was among top government officials reported by the state news agency SUNA Friday as opposing the U.N. force. He was quoted as saying Sudan has "options and plans" to confront what he calls the international intervention⁴.

In reports Thursday and Friday, other members of the ruling National Congress party blasted the resolution, saying that Security Council members were split over what the Sudanese government terms a hasty vote.

On Thursday, the U.N. Security Council approved the deployment⁶ of 20,000 U.N. military and police personnel to take over from an African Union force in Darfur, which has seen an escalation⁷ of violence and chaos⁸ in recent months. But the troops would not deploy⁵ without Sudan's consent.

Welcoming the resolution are members of the Sudan Liberation Movement, one of several rebel groups operating in Darfur.  

		The Darfur region of Sudan

Stephen Missa Dhunya is a former member of Parliament, who is now supervisor⁹ of a disarmament project in Sudan. He says he supports the presence of a U.N. peacekeeping force, if it will help end the suffering of people in Darfur, but says he is doubtful that this will happen.

"We've seen U.N. forces everywhere, for example in Congo, or in Rwanda,” said Dhunya. “They don't seem to really take an active role in stopping whatever they were sent to stop. The U.N. forces are there, and still there is much killing¹⁰ going on, so I don't know what they are coming to do in Darfur."

An estimated 200,000 people have been killed and two million displaced by the three-year-old conflict involving government forces, rebel groups, and a militia¹¹ called the Janjaweed that many say is backed by the Sudanese government.

The African Union force sent in to provide security has come under heavy criticism for being under funded, ill-equipped and having few powers.

Earlier this year, the Sudanese government signed a peace agreement with one of the rebel groups involved in the fighting.

The government argues that it has the capability¹² to deal with the Darfur crisis, and that the presence of foreign troops is tantamount to an imperial invasion.

But aid groups, human rights officials and others argue that the U.N. needs to step in and avert¹³ the looming¹⁴ humanitarian¹⁵ crisis.

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 volatile   

adj.反复无常的，挥发性的，稍纵即逝的，脾气火爆的；n.挥发性物质

参考例句：

• With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定，投资冒着很大的风险。
• His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱，喜怒无常。

3 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

4 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

5 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

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。

7 escalation   

n.扩大，增加

参考例句：

• The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
• Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句

8 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

9 supervisor   

n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师

参考例句：

• Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
• He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

10 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。

11 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。

12 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

13 avert   

v.防止，避免；转移(目光、注意力等)

参考例句：

• He managed to avert suspicion.他设法避嫌。
• I would do what I could to avert it.我会尽力去避免发生这种情况。

14 looming   

n.上现蜃景（光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼）v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• The foothills were looming ahead through the haze. 丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Then they looked up. Looming above them was Mount Proteome. 接着他们往上看，在其上隐约看到的是蛋白质组山。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望

15 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。