时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)


英语课

By Margaret Besheer
Baghdad
16 December 2006


 
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made the call at national reconciliation 1 conference of Shi'ites, Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians to halt communal 2 bloodshed
Iraqi political figures took the first tentative steps toward national reconciliation Saturday. But they quickly discovered the path would not be a smooth one, when one major Sunni Arab party left the talks. VOA's Margaret Besheer was at the Baghdad conference and files this report.


Iraq's government hopes that the national reconciliation conference will show a serious will to end the sectarian violence that has been terrorizing Baghdad and other parts of the country for many months.


Naseer al-Ani, the conference spokesman, told reporters that representatives from many ethnic 3 and religious groups, as well as former Baathists, are attending the two-day meeting inside the heavily protected Green Zone.


The conference will take on sensitive issues, such as what to do about militias 5 and whether former members of Saddam Hussein's military can be reinstated in the new Iraqi army.


 
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
One of the most important items on the table is a possible amnesty. In Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's 24-point reconciliation plan, announced last June, he proposed pardoning all criminals, except those who have killed coalition 6 forces or Iraqi civilians 7.


Haidar Ibadi, a Shi'ite member of parliament from Mr. Maliki's Dawa party, said the prime minister would announce an amnesty on Sunday.


But Rida Taki, a member of a rival Shi'ite party, the Supreme 8 Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, says there will not be an amnesty.


"Not amnesty," said Taki. "I think something between amnesty and, for example, setting free the detainees; not general amnesty. We need approval from parliament about the amnesty."


Mithal al-Alusi, a Sunni Arab with the secular 9 Umma Party, says his party supports a month-long amnesty that would apply to anyone willing to admit their crimes, and who wants to be part of the new political process - even militia 4 members. He says an amnesty is vital to peace.


"It is very hard. I have lost my only two sons," said al-Alusi. "I know how painful the situation is. Yes, I would give amnesty also for the people who have killed my sons, under the conditions, a new start for everybody."


But as the conference got under way, it became apparent that dialogue would not be easy. One of the main Sunni Arab parties, the Iraqi National Accord, which is led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, pulled out of the conference.


A spokesman for the group told reporters that the conference should have included all factions 10 outside the political process, except for al-Qaida and terrorist groups like it. But they believed many good nationalist groups had been excluded and that, without them, the results of the conference would be a failure.


Shi'ite politician Ahmed Chalabi told reporters that the departure of Allawi's group would not hurt the conference.


"It is alright. We cannot achieve unanimity 11 at this stage. It is not a very important thing to focus on one group pulling out," he said.


The talks are scheduled to continue through Sunday. Haidar Ibadi, Mr. Maliki's ally in the Dawa party, told VOA that this dialogue is very important. He said there is no other alternative, except to fight in the streets, and Iraqis do not want to do that.



n.和解,和谐,一致
  • He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
  • Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。
adj.公有的,公共的,公社的,公社制的
  • There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.在楼梯平台上有一处公共卫生间供4套公寓使用。
  • The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。
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.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
n.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 )
  • 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
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • 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。
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
n.牧师,凡人;adj.世俗的,现世的,不朽的
  • We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
  • Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
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
n.全体一致,一致同意
  • These discussions have led to a remarkable unanimity.这些讨论导致引人注目的一致意见。
  • There is no unanimity of opinion as to the best one.没有一个公认的最好意见。
学英语单词
Achromatium
All-electric home
anguishful
anomalepids
antenna selector switch
antisaprobic zone
artemetine
be tanked up
best quasi-linear estimator
biasing impedance
bullsnakes
cargo unmanifested
caro quadrata Sylvii
CECS
clausocalanus mastigophorus
cleaning point
close grained structure
co-immobilized enzymes
coequalities
congenited
coordinate grid scale
croodled
curved surface
defbs
destructive read operation
diphmanil
don't count your chickens
duxes
early abortion
echotomography
edas
external input
fallen snow
fire altar
frobisher
fuel pump coupling
gahnite
genus fuchsias
get forward
glide reflection plane
hand sounder
heidelbergensis
hemi-continuous mapping
Henry Miller
hold someone in disrepute
Hovmantorp
hypothesis of continental drift
imagawa
immobilization technology
inalbuminate
italicism
jacksies
lateral wheel
lipobox
luminous nebula
lxxxivvest
main offices
metapolitics
minimum point
mmpp
Monge's theorem
navel string
negative-going noise
nev-er
Nihondaira-yama
Ojieko
Old Forge
onion skinning
optical material
parable
part order
payment document
phonograph sound box reproducer
Piloceras
polypodium vulgares
predescribed
production coefficient
projected cut off
radii curvus
Ramadan Feast
ramsan dolomite
ready-to-serve
respiratory pigment
ring thermostat tube
section assembly flow line
sewage farming
sharmila
Shikotsu-ko
singlings
slat plow
stephedine
stromatoporous
subindices
terebinthinate
the pledge
threskiornis melanocephalus
torsional device
turns over
two-runway field
uprooted psychology
volcano of unperiodical eruption
whiteprints