CCTV9英语新闻11月：中国在联合国安理会的领导作用

By CCTV correspondent Stephen Fee

With political strife¹ in Syria and Sudan, Yemen and Central Africa, the United Nations Security Council is expected to take a leading role in global diplomacy² in the coming weeks. And this month, China assumes the Council's rotating presidency³. The 15 members of the UN's premier⁴ peace and security body have much to consider.

Liu Jieyi, Chinese ambassador to UN, says, "Now during the presidency of the Security Council China of course will be guided by the principles of objectivity, impartiality⁵, efficiency, pragmatism, and transparency."

In a month squeezed by holidays and procedural business, Liu says the 15 Security Council members will meet thirty times this month on some 20 agenda items.

"But the actual work of the Council might be even more for the month of November, as there are issues that we see on the horizon which will most likely be dealt with," Liu says.

Indeed, with conflicts in Mali and the Central African Republic, for example, changing by the day, the Security Council has had to become increasingly nimble and less reliant on a formalized agenda.

Bruno Stagno, Publisher of Security Concil Report and also served as Costa Rica's foreign minister and UN ambassador, says, "It's interesting to see that November, we're seeing a lot of these informal formats⁷ coming to the fore⁶. These are very good because they enable the Security Council to perform better on the early warning side."

Syria's brutal⁸ civil war, he says, poses perhaps the thorniest⁹ challenge for China as it guides the Council.

"There is a general sense among Council members that although Syria is complying on the chemical weapons front, there has been absolutely no movement in terms of humanitarian¹⁰ access and in terms of basically addressing the wider conflict, the conventional war," Stagno says.

China now contributes more than 1,700 personnel to UN peacekeeping missions worldwide and is the sixth biggest financial donor¹¹ to peacekeeping operations.

And Stagno believes that could go hand in hand with China taking a more vocal¹² leadership role on the Council.

"I do think that it's about time that as they step up in terms of their political leadership, their desire to give a certain imprimatur to the way the Council operates and also so that we can have a more equitable¹³ distribution of the work," Stagno says.

And the Council's work will certainly be cut out for them. In addition to agenda items covering Bosnia, Somalia, Libya, and Lebanon, the council will receive their first briefing Tuesday from the head of the joint¹⁴ UN mission charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons.

 

 

1 strife   

n.争吵，冲突，倾轧，竞争

参考例句：

• We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。
• Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages.金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。

2 diplomacy   

n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕

参考例句：

• The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
• This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。

3 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

4 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

5 impartiality   

n. 公平, 无私, 不偏

参考例句：

• He shows impartiality and detachment. 他表现得不偏不倚，超然事外。
• Impartiality is essential to a judge. 公平是当法官所必需的。

6 fore   

adv.在前面；adj.先前的；在前部的；n.前部

参考例句：

• Your seat is in the fore part of the aircraft.你的座位在飞机的前部。
• I have the gift of fore knowledge.我能够未卜先知。

7 formats   

n.（出版物的）版式( format的名词复数 )；[电视]电视节目的总安排（或计划）

参考例句：

• They are producing books in all kinds of different formats. 他们出版各种不同开本的书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A true GUI includes standard formats for representing text and graphics. 真正的图形用户界面包括表示文字和图形的标准格式。 来自互联网

8 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

9 thorniest   

adj.多刺的( thorny的最高级 )；有刺的；棘手的；多障碍的

参考例句：

• Paradoxically, the thorniest outstanding issue involves Bolivia. 而荒谬可笑的是，最棘手的国家要事却牵涉到了玻利维亚。 来自互联网

10 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

11 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

12 vocal   

adj.直言不讳的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]声乐节目

参考例句：

• The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
• Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。

13 equitable   

adj.公平的；公正的

参考例句：

• This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
• Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。

14 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。