2006年VOA标准英语-Sudanese Government Gives UN Envoy 3 Days to Le

By Noel King
Khartoum
22 October 2006

Jan Pronk

The Sudanese government is expelling a top United Nations envoy¹ from Sudan, the foreign ministry² said on Sunday. The expulsion comes in the wake of comments U.N. envoy Jan Pronk made on his Web site indicating that the Sudanese Armed Forces are in a state of disarray³ in Darfur.

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United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary General, Jan Pronk, has been given 72 hours to leave Sudan.

Pronk last week wrote on his Web site that the Sudanese army had lost two key battles against rebels in Darfur.

Pronk charged that some Sudanese troops are refusing to fight and he said some generals have been fired.

The Sudanese armed forces denied Pronk's claim and called for his expulsion from the country.

Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman Ali Sadiq, told VOA that Pronk is also at odds⁴ with the government over statements he made about the Darfur peace agreement.

"This decision has to do with the recent statements issued by Mr. Pronk on his private Web site, in which he said the government of Sudan did not implement⁵ the Darfur peace agreement and is deceiving those who signed the DPA," said Sadiq. "We consider these statements are unwarranted and affect the situation in Darfur."

The United Nations was not available for comment on Pronk's dismissal.

In August Sudan began a military offensive against rebels in northern Darfur who have refused to sign on to a peace agreement with the Sudanese government.

Only one faction⁶ of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement signed on to the deal.

Others refused, complaining that the peace agreement did not meet their demands of power-sharing and monetary⁷ compensation for some three million victims of the conflict.

Last week Darfuri rebels and Sudanese troops clashed along Sudan's porous⁸ border with Chad, sending hundreds of injured rebels and soldiers streaming into the Chadian town of Bahai.

The three-year Darfur conflict began when rebels attacked government positions in Darfur, complaining that the remote region remained undeveloped due to neglect by the central government.

Sudan is charged with arming militias⁹ to crush the rebellion.

Tens of thousands of people have died and more than two million have been displaced by the fighting.

1 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 disarray   

n.混乱，紊乱，凌乱

参考例句：

• His personal life fell into disarray when his wife left him.妻子离去后，他的个人生活一片混乱。
• Our plans were thrown into disarray by the rail strike.铁路罢工打乱了我们的计划。

4 odds   

n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别

参考例句：

• The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
• Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？

5 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

6 faction   

n.宗派，小集团；派别；派系斗争

参考例句：

• Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
• I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境，在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。

7 monetary   

adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的

参考例句：

• The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

8 porous   

adj.可渗透的，多孔的

参考例句：

• He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.他往土里掺沙子以提高渗水性能。
• The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.外壳不得不有些细小的孔以便能使氧气通过。

9 militias   

n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
• The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网