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叁月份 第 18 课

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  • Syria Accepts Annan Peace Plan
  • 叙利亚接受安南的和平计划
  •   International peace envoy Kofi Annan says Syria has accepted his plan to end violence in the country.
  • 国际和平特使科菲‧安南说,叙利亚接受了他提出的在叙利亚结束暴力的方案。

  •   A spokesman for Mr. Annan said Tuesday Syria's response came in a letter to the U.N.-Arab League envoy.
  • 安南的发言人星期二说,叙利亚通过一封给这位联合国和阿拉伯国家联盟特使的信做出了这一回应。

  •   Mr. Annan met with Chinese officials Tuesday in Beijing, including Premier Wen Jiabao, as China pledged to support his mediation efforts.
  • 安南星期二在北京会见了中国总理温家宝等领导人;中方承诺支持他的斡旋努力。

  •   The plan calls on Syrian government forces and rebels to agree on a cease-fire and engage in dialogue.
  • 这一计划呼吁叙利亚政府军和反政府力量达成停火协议,并进行对话。

  •   The blueprint, endorsed by the U.N. Security Council, does not include a Western and Arab demand for President Bashar al - Assad to resign - a requirement that Russia and China oppose.
  • 这份联合国安理会支持的草案没有纳入西方和阿拉伯国家对阿萨德辞职的要求 - 俄罗斯和中国均反对这一要求。

  •   U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said Tuesday there is a basic structure in place to discuss with Russia and China what they can do to support Mr. Annan.
  • 美国副国家安全顾问本‧罗兹星期二说,目前已有了基本架构,可与俄罗斯和中国讨论如何支持安南。

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  • Amnesty: Fewer Nations Executing More People
  • 国际特赦:死刑国家减少 行刑数量不减
  •   Amnesty International says a declining number of mainly Asian countries continued to carry out the death penalty at an "alarming rate" in 2011.
  • 国际特赦组织说,一些国家在 2011 年仍在继续以 “令人警觉的速度” 执行死刑。

  •   The rights group said Tuesday that only 10 percent of the countries in the world now employ capital punishment.
  • 这些国家主要以亚洲国家為主,数量正在减少;这个人权组织星期二说,世界上只有 10 % 的国家仍在使用死刑。

  •   That represents a decline of more than a third from a decade ago.
  • 这比十年前下降了叁分之一以上。

  •   But Jose Luis Diaz, the head of Amnesty International's U.N. office, says those countries continue to go against the global trend, having putting to death 676 people in the past year.
  • 但是国际特赦组织驻联合国办公室主管迪亚兹说,这些国家继续反全球趋势而行,去年处决了 676 人。

  •   The group's figures do not include the "thousands" of executions that it estimates were carried out in China, where capital punishment figures are not released.
  • 该组织的数据没有包括中国执行的处决数量;中国不公佈其死刑数据,但是国际特赦组织估计数量有数千人。

  •   It says more people were likely executed last year in China than the rest of the world combined, despite Beijing's publicly announced intention to reduce the figure.
  • 尽管中国政府公开宣佈有意减少死刑数量,但该组织说,中国去年的处决人数比世界上其它地区的总和还多。

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