美洲—拉姆斯菲尔德：美不会准许联合国与关塔那摩囚犯进行直接接

Rumsfeld: US 'Not Inclined' to Give UN Access to Guantanamo Prisoners

拉姆斯菲尔德：美不会准许联合国与关塔那摩囚犯进行直接接触

 

Secretary Rumsfeld says the government is not concerned about any report the U.N. rapporteurs might make from interviews with prisoners.  But he indicated that the International Committee of the Red Cross has been allowed free access to the Guantanamo facility and its detainees, because the organization has a strict confidentiality¹ rule.

 

Donald Rumsfeld: The ICRC has been doing it for a great many years and has had complete and total access ever since Guantanamo was opened and so we're not inclined to add [to] the number of people who are given that extensive access.

 

Secretary Rumsfeld says he was not personally involved in the decision not to grant the U.N. investigators² access to the prisoners, but that other officials of the Defense³ Department had input⁴ into a government-wide decision-making process.

 

Donald Rumsfeld: I'm not involved in the decision. That is a decision that the government of the United States has got to address because it's a precedent⁵ that applies across the government.

 

Last Friday, Secretary Rumsfeld invited the U.N. special rapporteurs on detention⁶, torture and religious freedom for a one-day visit to Guantanamo.  The invitation followed months of negotiations⁷.  A Pentagon spokesman said the conditions for the visit would be similar to those for members of the U.S. Congress and the media who have visited the facility, and noted⁸ that this is an exception to the Defense Department's long-standing policy of having the International Committee of the Red Cross as the only international organization allowed to send inspectors⁹ to Guantanamo.

 

The detention facility has been widely criticized by human rights groups, based on claims of torture and other forms of mistreatment made by detainees and their lawyers.  The U.S. government has denied the torture claims, and says the detainees are treated well.  On Tuesday, Secretary Rumsfeld called a hunger strike by prisoners a publicity¹⁰ stunt¹¹, and said the prisoners are participating in rotation¹² to ensure that the strike continues.  The strike has been going on for several months, and a spokesman says that currently 24 of the 27 participants are being fed internally against their will by medical staff.  There are just over 500 detainees at the facility.

 

On Monday, the U.N. rapporteurs, who operate independently under the auspices¹³ of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, accepted the invitation to visit Guantanamo, even though they had wanted to bring two other investigators with them and spend more time at the facility.  But they said they could not go unless the U.S. government changed one aspect of the invitation, and allowed them to meet privately¹⁴ with prisoners.  They said such access is a basic requirement of their Terms of Reference, and that they insist on it in any country they visit.

 

The special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, expressed optimism that the United States would agree to the request, but on Tuesday Secretary Rumsfeld indicated that it would not.

 

Al Pessin, VOA news at the Pentagon.

 

注释：

rapporteur [7rApC:5tuE] n. 报告人

confidentiality [kCnfi5denFEliti] n. 机密性

publicity [pQb5lisiti] n. 公开

in rotation 轮换；轮流

auspices [5C:spisiz] n. 由……主办及赞助

1 confidentiality   

n.秘而不宣，保密

参考例句：

• They signed a confidentiality agreement. 他们签署了一份保守机密的协议。
• Cryptography is the foundation of supporting authentication, integrality and confidentiality. 而密码学是支持认证、完整性和机密性机制的基础。

2 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 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。

4 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

5 precedent   

n.先例，前例；惯例；adj.在前的，在先的

参考例句：

• Is there a precedent for what you want me to do?你要我做的事有前例可援吗？
• This is a wonderful achievement without precedent in Chinese history.这是中国历史上亘古未有的奇绩。

6 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

7 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

8 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

9 inspectors   

n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 )；（英国公共汽车或火车上的）查票员；（警察）巡官；检阅官

参考例句：

• They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 publicity   

n.众所周知，闻名；宣传，广告

参考例句：

• The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
• He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。

11 stunt   

n.惊人表演，绝技，特技；vt.阻碍...发育，妨碍...生长

参考例句：

• Lack of the right food may stunt growth.缺乏适当的食物会阻碍发育。
• Right up there is where the big stunt is taking place.那边将会有惊人的表演。

12 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。

13 auspices   

n.资助，赞助

参考例句：

• The association is under the auspices of Word Bank.这个组织是在世界银行的赞助下办的。
• The examination was held under the auspices of the government.这次考试是由政府主办的。

14 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。