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By Barry Wood
Washington
14 February 2008


Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis told a Washington audience Wednesday the European Union is divided on whether to officially recognize Kosovo as a territory independent of Serbia.  VOA's Barry Wood has more.


Bakoyannis makes clear that Greece is in no hurry to recognize Kosovo, which is expected to declare its independence from Serbia by the end of the month. Speaking at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, she stressed the importance of the 27 European Union members reaching a common stance on Kosovo.


Under the plan for Kosovo's supervised independence the EU will take over most of the functions of the United Nations, which has administered the territory since 1999.


Bakoyannis says Monday's meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels will have Kosovo high on the agenda.


"The European Union needs much more discussion if we want to have a united position. And it is needed on Kosovo more than any other place," she said.


On another Balkans-related topic, Bakoyannis says that, while Greece favors NATO membership for Croatia, Albania and Macedonia, the absence of good relations between Greece and its northern neighbor Macedonia presents a problem.  Greece has threatened to block Macedonia's membership unless Skopje agrees to change the name of its country.


Bakoyannis says the name Macedonia implies a territorial 1 claim on Greece's northern Macedonia province.


"I really hope that our friends in Skopje will understand that the common Euro-Atlantic future can not be based on irredentist ideas of yesterday, but on positive ideas for a better European future of tomorrow," she said.


A UN envoy 2 in coming days is expected to make new proposals for resolving the long-standing dispute over Macedonia's name.


Macedonia is bordered on the north by Kosovo and one third of its population is ethnic 3 Albanian.  There are fears that if Macedonia fails to gain admission to NATO, it could enter a period of ethnic upheaval 4.



adj.领土的,领地的
  • The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。
  • They were not allowed to fish in our territorial waters.不允许他们在我国领海捕鱼。
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。
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
n.胀起,(地壳)的隆起;剧变,动乱
  • It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱。
  • The country has been thrown into an upheaval.这个国家已经陷入动乱之中。
学英语单词
4-Pyridoxate
adaptive predicative coding
aeromagnetic exploration
agrilus auropictus
Algerian Saharan Arabic
Alice-Josephine Pons
Anynet
Asian-Pacific Postal Union
autogreets
ballast scarifier
Barnby Dun
beat someone's head off
blade shielding
buccopharyngeal epithelium
bureau of the census
calculated gas velocity
call-sign
carinal canal
choke block
concealed-carry
conformal cylindrical projection
control integrated circuit
convexedness
cudi deresi
current market-value
cusp beach
cyphonantes
Dirico
disembargo
Divine Liturgy
dollkind
epidermal cancer
equation of radiative transfer
equatorial quantum number
expanding band clutch
facio-cervical lifting
fast-forwardeds
Featherville
film layer
first-naming
fixed-gate generator
fourbis
Frequency shift telegraphy.
Gcaleka
gigaspora pellucida
granitell
gutturalize
high-speed data
holiday homes
infilling well
initial ladders
Jasdorf
khaph
leasehold obligation
leather-wrapped
Ligamentum nuchae
look straight ahead
lymphocytotropic
malamanteaus
melinite
molecular make-up
neriene fusca
newly-publisheds
non-pollutive technology
of wide distribution
olax wightiana wall. ex wight et am.
opposite-field
optical length
ossa wormi
otitis mucosis
pendentive bracketing
polys
posttraumatic epilepsy
predicted values
propellant management device
pullinsi
rayetheon
re-call
roston
running torque-frequency characteristic
salt eutectic
slow-onsets
snecked rubble wall
solution casting
Spruceton
stomachings
Strikes Risks
stubblefield
survey of gender equality in the workplace
taisha
thick-knit
Trojanów
troubetzkoy
Valais, Alps
Verkhnyaya Taymyra
vitamin-e
water violets
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world market price
xerotropism
xiaojin mini-pills