VOA标准英语2011-Ivory Coast Incumbent President Rejects C

The government of Ivory Coast's incumbent¹ president is rejecting calls for more U.N. peacekeepers, saying the entire force should leave the country because it is violating its neutrality.

The head of U.N. peacekeeping wants as many as 2,000 additional troops in Ivory Coast in the next few weeks to help resolve this political crisis.

But incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo says all of the nearly 10,000 U.N. peacekeepers who are in the country must leave because they have lost the confidence of civilians² and are interfering³ in Ivory Coast's internal affairs.

Alcide Djedje is Gbagbo's foreign minister.

Djedje says the United Nations mission in Ivory Coast has deviated⁴ from its original role and is now acting⁵ in complicity with rebels. Djedje says the Gbagbo government can not accept that and no longer trusts U.N. peacekeepers, so they must leave.

Some of those peacekeepers are guarding an Abidjan resort hotel that Alassane Ouattara has not left since Ivory Coast's electoral commission declared him the winner of November's presidential election. Former rebels who back Ouattara are also at the hotel, which Djedje says is a threat to security.

Djedje says the military can not tolerate the presence of 300 heavily-armed combatants at a hotel so close to Gbagbo's residence. He says the blockade of that hotel is a security measure that will be lifted if the former rebels return to positions they control in the north.

Gbagbo agreed to ease that blockade and take part in further negotiations⁶ without preconditions following talks with West African heads of state. But the regional alliance says that pledge does not diminish its threat to use force to remove Gbagbo if he continues to refuse to yield power to Ouattara.

James Gbeho is the president of the regional ECOWAS alliance.

"If there is no joy in exploiting the peaceful situation, then the military objective can also be considered as a tool for a sustainable resolution of the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire," Gbeho said.

Gbeho says West African leaders understand the dangers of mounting such a force as Gbagbo controls the national army.

But Outarra told French television that regional military intervention⁷ would not lead to a return to civil war, and he believes West African leaders will use every means, including legitimate⁸ force, to remove Gbagbo.

Gbagbo Youth Minister Charles Ble Goude told a rally in Abidjan that Ouattara is mistaken in he believes foreign troops are coming to Ivory Coast to make him president.

Goude says no army, no matter how powerful, can come to Ivory Coast to remove Laurent Gbagbo and install Ouattara as president. Not in Abidjan, he says, Gbagbo supporters will never accept that

1 incumbent   

adj.成为责任的，有义务的；现任的，在职的

参考例句：

• He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
• It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。

2 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

3 interfering   

adj. 妨碍的 动词interfere的现在分词

参考例句：

• He's an interfering old busybody! 他老爱管闲事！
• I wish my mother would stop interfering and let me make my own decisions. 我希望我母亲不再干预，让我自己拿主意。

4 deviated   

v.偏离，越轨( deviate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• On this occasion the plane deviated from its usual flight path. 这一次那架飞机偏离了正常的航线。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His statements sometimes deviated from the truth. 他的陈述有时偏离事实。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 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。

7 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

8 legitimate   

adj.合法的，合理的，合乎逻辑的；v.使合法

参考例句：

• Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
• That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。