VOA标准英语2010年-Guinea Electoral Commission Meets with

Guinea's electoral commission and international donors¹ are discussing plans to organize elections in six months.  The vote is part of a regionally-backed transitional authority meant to end more than one year of military rule.

Guinea's National Independent Electoral Commission and international donors are meeting for the first time since regional mediator² Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore reached the interim³ government deal with Guinea's military leaders.

The talks are expected to focus on a timetable for voter and candidate registration⁴ as well as a preliminary budget for the cost of holding elections within six months.

Jean-Marie Dore will be the country's new interim prime minister.  He says keeping to that schedule presents considerable challenges for one of the world's poorest countries.

Jean-Marie Dore speaks to journalists in Dakar (File)

Mr. Dore says the transition could be one month or it could be three years, depending on what has already been done with voter registration.  While he says the transitional government will work to meet the six-month deadline, everything does not depend on the government.

Mr. Dore says the success of the election will depend on its organization.  And if there is not enough money to organize it properly, he says Guinea will continue to struggle.

The U.N. Secretary Generals' special representative for West Africa Said Djinnit says the six-month timetable can be met, but only if things are done quickly with proper support.

"This is a window of opportunity that should be seized by national stake-holders but also by international stake-holders to ensure that this time around we can help the country exit from the crisis and return to constitutional order," he said.

Guinea has been under military rule since a December 2008 coup⁵ that brought to power Captain Moussa Dadis Camara.  He was shot last month by the former head of the presidential guard who says Captain Camara was trying to blame him for the killing⁶ of at least 157 opposition⁷ protesters in September.

While Captain Camara continues to recover from those wounds in Burkina Faso, Defense⁸ Minister Sekouba Konate is Guinea's acting⁹ military ruler.  He and the interim prime minister  will oversee¹⁰ the 101-member transitional authority.

Djinnit met with General Konate and Mr. Dore before the electoral commission meeting.

"I believe that all are keen to go through the shortest transition possible that will allow for preparing for the election as soon as possible, but also giving some time for some socio-economic support because I think it is very important that before the people of Guinea go to elections that the people could see the dividends¹¹ of reconciliation¹² in terms of resuming support by the international community, by the international financial institutions, and the key bilateral¹³ partners of Guinea to make sure that all efforts will converge¹⁴ towards making this opportunity a reality and returning quickly to democratic rule," he said.

Djinnit was joined in Conakry by the head of the Economic Community of West African States Commission, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, and by African Union representative Ibrahim Fall.

Djinnit says the international community understands that Guinea will need strong support to meet its goal of having elections in June.

German Ambassador Karl Prinz told Guinea's state television that the European Union is prepared to resume cooperation with the new government, will support the presidential elections, and will contribute to reforming the country's military.

1 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 mediator   

n.调解人，中介人

参考例句：

• He always takes the role of a mediator in any dispute.他总是在争论中充当调停人的角色。
• He will appear in the role of mediator.他将出演调停者。

3 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

4 registration   

n.登记，注册，挂号

参考例句：

• Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
• What's your registration number?你挂的是几号？

5 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

6 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。

7 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。

8 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

9 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

10 oversee   

vt.监督，管理

参考例句：

• Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
• Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。

11 dividends   

红利( dividend的名词复数 )； 股息； 被除数； （足球彩票的）彩金

参考例句：

• Nothing pays richer dividends than magnanimity. 没有什么比宽宏大量更能得到厚报。
• Their decision five years ago to computerise the company is now paying dividends. 五年前他们作出的使公司电脑化的决定现在正产生出效益。

12 reconciliation   

n.和解，和谐，一致

参考例句：

• He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
• Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。

13 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

14 converge   

vi.会合；聚集，集中；(思想、观点等)趋近

参考例句：

• The results converge towards this truth.其结果趋近于这个真理。
• Parallel lines converge at infinity.平行线永不相交。