VOA常速英语--对萨赫勒地区的安全援助表示支持
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2017年(11月)
Support for Security Assistance in the Sahel
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has announced that, pending 1 consultation 2 with Congress, the United States will provide up to $60 million dollars to support a promising 3 and developing regional counterterrorism effort in the Sahel.
The assistance will support activities for a joint 4 counterterrorism force that the Group of Five (G5) Sahel states – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger - agreed to set up earlier this year to fight terrorist and violent extremist groups, such as al-Qa'ida in the Maghreb, ISIS, and associated groups.
In a statement, Secretary Tillerson said, “Defeating terrorism depends on making sure terrorist organizations cannot have safe havens 5 on any continent... This is a fight we must win, and these funds will play a key role in achieving that mission.” He went on to say that this pledge, “will bolster 6 our regional partners in their fight to ensure security and stability in the face of ISIS and affiliated 7 groups and other terrorist networks.”
In remarks at a Security Council briefing on peace and security in Africa, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley spoke 8 of the violence that has spread across the Sahel, not only from terrorists, but from criminals who traffic in drugs and human beings seeking to profit from the chaos 9 in the region. She praised the men and women of the armed forces of the G5 Sahel countries, as well as the UN peacekeepers who are “serving in the world's most dangerous peacekeeping mission” in Mali.
Ambassador Haley promised that the United States will continue its longstanding bilateral 10 support to the G5 members' security forces. Speaking of the new pledge of up to $60 million dollars for the joint counterterrorism force through bilateral assistance, she noted 11 that the force will need ongoing 12 support, and that the United States is eager for opportunities to work closely with its partners to make the effort a successful one.
Ambassador Haley emphasized, however, that the G5 force “must be first and foremost owned by the countries of the region themselves. We expect,” she said, “that the G5 countries will take on full regional ownership of the force within a period of three to six years, with continued U.S. engagement. This is the approach that will be most effective, in the end, in freeing the region from terror.”
“We welcome this regional ownership of security and stabilization 13 in the Sahel,” said Ambassador Haley, “[and] we will continue to stand with the people of the region.”
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