VOA常速英语2007年-Southern Ministers Set to Rejoin Sudan Governme

By Derek Kilner
Nairobi
12 December 2007

Southern Sudan's main political party has said its ministers will rejoin a national unity¹ government. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA from Nairobi, a dispute between North and South over the status of the disputed Abyei region is still unresolved.

The former rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement withdrew their ministers from a power-sharing national government in October over complaints that their partner in the North, the National Congress Party, was failing to implement² a 2005 peace agreement.

But following a meeting Tuesday between Sudan's President Omar Bashir and Vice³ President Salva Kiir, who is also president of the semi-autonomous southern government, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, known as the SPLM, agreed that its ministers would rejoin the government.

SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum announced the decision in Khartoum late Tuesday.

"The chairman of the SPLM will be issuing directives to the SPLM ministers to return to the government any time form now as the resolutions and orders are being worked by the presidency," said Amum. "They will also be consulting on the formation of the government in terms of SPLM components⁴."

Amum said the two sides have agreed to resolve a number of the SPLM's major grievances⁵, including a timetable for withdrawing northern and southern troops from each other's territory; management of oil revenues; and funding for a national census⁶.

A census is a necessary first step before national elections scheduled for 2009 and a referendum on southern secession in 2011.

But left unresolved was the status of the oil-rich Abyei region that sits along the North-South border, and whose boundaries have been the major stumbling block in implementing⁷ the peace agreement.

Amum said President Bashir and Vice President Kiir will continue to discuss the issue of Abyei and expressed hope that a solution could be reached as early as Saturday.

But it remains⁸ unclear how such a solution will be achieved. A boundary commission established by the peace agreement produced its findings on the region's boundaries in 2005. But the National Congress Party has rejected the commission's findings.

The United Nations estimates that the North-South conflict killed more than two million people between 1983 and 2005. A 10,000 member U.N. peacekeeping force has been deployed⁹ since 2005 to support the peace agreement.

1 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。

2 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

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 components   

（机器、设备等的）构成要素，零件，成分； 成分( component的名词复数 )； [物理化学]组分； [数学]分量； （混合物的）组成部分

参考例句：

• the components of a machine 机器部件
• Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。

5 grievances   

n.委屈( grievance的名词复数 )；苦衷；不满；牢骚

参考例句：

• The trade union leader spoke about the grievances of the workers. 工会领袖述说工人们的苦情。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• He gave air to his grievances. 他申诉了他的冤情。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 census   

n.(官方的)人口调查，人口普查

参考例句：

• A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
• The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。

7 implementing   

v.实现( implement的现在分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• -- Implementing a comprehensive drug control strategy. ――实行综合治理的禁毒战略。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
• He was in no hurry about implementing his unshakable principle. 他并不急于实行他那不可动摇的原则。 来自辞典例句

8 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

9 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。