VOA标准英语2009年-Zimbabwe Welcomes Return of Tsvangirai for Cris

A senior Zimbabwean official says he is pleased that Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai is returning home for talks with President Robert Mugabe on reviving the stalled efforts to form a unity¹ government. The reaction comes after the South African government announced that President Kgalema Motlanthe would go to Harare Monday to mediate² between the two rivals.

Zimbabwe's Deputy Minister of Information, Bright Matonga, Friday welcomed the return of Morgan Tsvangirai to Zimbabwe after a two-month absence.
　
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe speaks at his ZANU PF's 10th annual Congress in Bindura, Zimbabwe, 19 Dec 2008

Matonga said on South African national radio that it was time the veteran opposition³ leader and President Robert Mugabe overcame their differences and formed a unity government to address the Zimbabwe crisis.

"What is very important now is to put the people of Zimbabwe first," said Matonga. "Yes, there is suffering. There is hunger. It's high time that our leaders sit down and make a way forward, make a way forward that is not selfish but to the benefit of everybody."

The South African government earlier announced that President Kgalema Motlanthe (as head of the Southern African Development Community) would go to Harare to mediate the talks.

Tsvangirai announced Thursday that he was returning to Zimbabwe on Saturday for talks due early next week. But the veteran opposition leader gave conditions that laws governing the security forces and the powers of the president and prime minister must be enacted⁴ first and the arrests and torture of his supporters must stop.

Mr. Mugabe, Tsvangirai and the head of a smaller opposition party Arthur Mutambara four months ago signed a global political agreement aimed at forming a government of national unity. The new government was to end a political standoff that followed disputed elections last year.

But implementation⁵ of the accord has stalled over the allocation of ministries⁶ and other disputes.
　
Morgan Tsvangirai speaking to reporters in Johannesburg, 15 Jan 2009

Tsvangirai said Mr. Mugabe was part of the problem as well as part of the solution.

"Since we are committed to this global political agreement we have to have a partner," said Tsvangirai. "Unfortunately I don't have a credible⁷ partner on the part of Mugabe. But we have to deal with him in terms of the outline of that global political agreement. It doesn't mean necessarily that I trust him wholly [completely]."

The developments came as a leading human rights activist⁸, Jestina Mukoko, appeared in a Zimbabwean court pleading to be allowed to see her doctor more than three weeks after being taken from her home and beaten by unidentified men.
　
Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko arrives at magistrate's court in Harare, 24 Dec 2008

Mukoko is one of several dozen activists⁹ who disappeared weeks ago and eventually reappeared in Zimbabwean jails charged with conspiring¹⁰ to overthrow¹¹ the government. Court orders to release some of the detainees or provide medical treatment to others have been ignored.

Government spokesman Matonga said such issues could be resolved once a new government was formed.

"This business of abductions or whatever, torture, it's not going to resolve anything. What is important now is to form that government," he said. "Once you form that government, government can then sit down and investigate those things."

The government has accused members of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change of recruiting young men for military training in neighboring Botswana. Tsvangirai and the Botswana government deny the charge.

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 mediate   

vi.调解，斡旋；vt.经调解解决；经斡旋促成

参考例句：

• The state must mediate the struggle for water resources.政府必须通过调解来解决对水资源的争夺。
• They may be able to mediate between parties with different interests.他们也许能在不同利益政党之间进行斡旋。

3 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。

4 enacted   

制定（法律），通过（法案）( enact的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• legislation enacted by parliament 由议会通过的法律
• Outside in the little lobby another scene was begin enacted. 外面的小休息室里又是另一番景象。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

5 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。

6 ministries   

（政府的）部( ministry的名词复数 )； 神职； 牧师职位； 神职任期

参考例句：

• Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
• The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。

7 credible   

adj.可信任的，可靠的

参考例句：

• The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
• Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法？

8 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

9 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 conspiring   

密谋( conspire的现在分词 )； 搞阴谋； （事件等）巧合； 共同导致

参考例句：

• They were accused of conspiring against the king. 他们被指控阴谋反对国王。
• John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states. 约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯。

11 overthrow   

v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆

参考例句：

• After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
• The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。