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By Margaret Besheer
United Nations
02 October 2007


The U.N. Security Council has condemned 1 an attack on African Union peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region that killed 10 of them, but could not agree on language for a formal statement. From U.N. headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.


Ghanaian Ambassador Leslie Christian 2, who chairs the Security Council this month, told reporters Monday evening following the lengthy 3 closed-door meeting that the council was unable to reach an agreement and would continue its consultations 4 on Tuesday.


"The recent attack on AU peacekeepers in Haskanita, South Darfur was condemned and there was a demand that no effort should be spared so that the perpetrators are identified and brought to justice," said Leslie Christian.


Ambassador Christian declined to say why the council was unable to reach an agreement, but South Africa's envoy 5, Dumisani Kumalo, told reporters that some members felt strongly rebels were responsible, while others preferred to conduct an investigation 6 before accusing any group.


"The reason we could not come to an agreement was because most of us feel this was a terrorist act," said Dumisani Kumalo. "Every report that we have received points out it was done by rebels. We would have preferred a very specific statement. The others argued that of course they wanted an investigation to find out what happened."


U.N. officials say the small encampment in Haskanita came under heavy attack Friday evening and then again before sunrise on Saturday. The camp was destroyed and at least 10 peacekeepers were killed and several more were injured. A number more went missing, but Sudanese troops have since found several of them.


No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which the Sudanese government blames on the two main rebel groups - the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).


Sudan's U.N. Ambassador Abdalmahmood Mohamad:


"Factions 7 of SLM and JEM," he said. "It is very clear, the African Union said it, not only the Sudan government… The evidence is there: they were active in (the) area, they did it, the African Union said it, so they are very visible, it is not necessary to reinvent [the] wheel to know it is them."


The attack comes just weeks ahead of peace negotiations 8 scheduled for October 27 in Libya. Ambassador Mohamad said the attack targets the peace process, and should harden everyone's resolve to make the Tripoli meeting a success.


The violence could also complicate 9 plans to deploy 10 a 26,000 - member African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force to Darfur later this year. The president of Senegal says he is considering withdrawing his country's troops from the force, after one of his nation's soldiers was killed in the Haskanita attack.




adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
adj.漫长的,冗长的
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
  • The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。
n.磋商(会议)( consultation的名词复数 );商讨会;协商会;查找
  • Consultations can be arranged at other times by appointment. 磋商可以通过预约安排在其他时间。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Consultations are under way. 正在进行磋商。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • 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。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • 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。
vt.使复杂化,使混乱,使难懂
  • There is no need to complicate matters.没有必要使问题复杂化。
  • These events will greatly complicate the situation.这些事件将使局势变得极其复杂。
v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开
  • The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
  • The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。
学英语单词
1-anthrylamine
adenomammectomy
aggregate fund in flow out flow
aibs
alyx
amount of precipitation
analysis of stomach
area pattern
backfeed
black rat snake
cancellation of adoption
Castelluccio del Sauri
ch'ang tzu
comitragedy
cross-reaction
cross-road
culture-flask
deloach
derganil
dual basing-point system
Edline
electric resistance humidifier
equitable conversion
equitization
factor modulus
feminine product
fenbufen
ferric pyrophosphate
field rivetting
first party dma
flanged hose coupling
flapstop
floruits
fog quenching
fractalizes
fusiform excision
fuzzy decision-tree
Good lenses, bad frames
group reinforcement
haubner
Hognestad's syndrome
honey granulation
husker with hydraulic roll-engagement
hyetal map
ICMRT
ill-judging
Indian mongoose
innerspace
interlocking matrix
joint sealing materials
king of beasts
kingoonyas
lamp-shades
langot
languorous
large coal
Lerne
leucomatous
make someone's hair stand on make someone's hair curl
mam-cu-sak
mechanical oil valve
methylethylcellulose
minimal detectable activity
Morocco agencies
morphometric cytology
multiple-beam radar
out of play
paper crop
paysant
peach pyralid moth
pinballed
polyploid state
positive stripe
presser beams
prociphilus tessellatuss
quadrillions
raw wound
Red Horde
repagination
right-cut tool
roll mandrel
rynesh
sandouville
scanning tunneling microscopy
script girl
serial sectioning
shakeel
ship communications
shop bell
smutmonger
social compensation hypothesis
spinae pubis
starter main shaft gear
take advantage of the loophole
tannenite (emplectite)
Tanner stages
tumor disease
uniflux tray S
vertical infection
walking boots
xoanon
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