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三月份 第 18 課

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  • Syria Accepts Annan Peace Plan
  • 敘利亞接受安南的和平計劃
  •   International peace envoy Kofi Annan says Syria has accepted his plan to end violence in the country.
  • 國際和平特使科菲‧安南說,敘利亞接受了他提出的在敘利亞結束暴力的方案。

  •   A spokesman for Mr. Annan said Tuesday Syria's response came in a letter to the U.N.-Arab League envoy.
  • 安南的發言人星期二說,敘利亞通過一封給這位聯合國和阿拉伯國家聯盟特使的信做出了這一回應。

  •   Mr. Annan met with Chinese officials Tuesday in Beijing, including Premier Wen Jiabao, as China pledged to support his mediation efforts.
  • 安南星期二在北京會見了中國總理溫家寶等領導人;中方承諾支持他的斡旋努力。

  •   The plan calls on Syrian government forces and rebels to agree on a cease-fire and engage in dialogue.
  • 這一計劃呼籲敘利亞政府軍和反政府力量達成停火協議,並進行對話。

  •   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.
  • 這份聯合國安理會支持的草案沒有納入西方和阿拉伯國家對阿薩德辭職的要求 - 俄羅斯和中國均反對這一要求。

  •   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.
  • 美國副國家安全顧問本‧羅茲星期二說,目前已有了基本架構,可與俄羅斯和中國討論如何支持安南。

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  • Amnesty: Fewer Nations Executing More People
  • 國際特赦:死刑國家減少 行刑數量不減
  •   Amnesty International says a declining number of mainly Asian countries continued to carry out the death penalty at an "alarming rate" in 2011.
  • 國際特赦組織說,一些國家在 2011 年仍在繼續以 “令人警覺的速度” 執行死刑。

  •   The rights group said Tuesday that only 10 percent of the countries in the world now employ capital punishment.
  • 這些國家主要以亞洲國家為主,數量正在減少;這個人權組織星期二說,世界上只有 10 % 的國家仍在使用死刑。

  •   That represents a decline of more than a third from a decade ago.
  • 這比十年前下降了三分之一以上。

  •   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.
  • 但是國際特赦組織駐聯合國辦公室主管迪亞茲說,這些國家繼續反全球趨勢而行,去年處決了 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.
  • 該組織的數據沒有包括中國執行的處決數量;中國不公佈其死刑數據,但是國際特赦組織估計數量有數千人。

  •   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.
  • 盡管中國政府公開宣佈有意減少死刑數量,但該組織說,中國去年的處決人數比世界上其它地區的總和還多。

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