2006年VOA标准英语-Rice Discusses North Korea with Russian Leaders
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By Bill Gasperini
Moscow
21 October 2006
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomes US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice met behind closed doors with President Vladimir Putin and Russia's Foreign and Defense 1 ministers to discuss North Korea.
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However no statements were made during or after the meetings, which come on the last stop of Rice's tour that has included stops in Japan, South Korea and China.
The goal of her trip has mostly focused on ensuring the United Nations sanctions adopted against North Korea last week will be fully 2 enforced.
But confusion remains 3 about whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il apologized for the recent nuclear test and promised there would not be another one.
Mr. Kim reportedly made the comment to a Chinese envoy 4 who visited Pyongyang last week.
Speaking with reporters on the flight from Beijing to Moscow, Rice said she doubts the report is accurate because the envoy and other Chinese officials made no mention of it during her meetings in Beijing on Friday.
Meanwhile, Russia has called on both the United States and North Korea to show more flexibility 5" in order to resolve their differences. In a statement aired on Russian state television, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said it is important to avoid what he termed uncompromising positions on the nuclear issue. He said Russia favors a resumption of the six-party negotiations 6 aimed at resolving the nuclear dispute.
Talks involving North and South Korea, China, Russia, Japan and the United States broke off a year ago when North Korea demanded that it only wanted to talk directly to the United States.
Rice also met with the editors and relatives of Anna Politkovskaya, the prominent investigative journalist murdered in Moscow two weeks ago.
The meeting was held in a hotel between her talks with Russian officials in a move clearly intended to show support for one of Russia's last independent media outlets 7.
A fierce critic of the Kremlin's human rights abuses in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was murdered two weeks ago in an apparent contract hit.
Both the United States and European Union have called on Russian authorities to hunt down and prosecute 8 the killers 9.
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- 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。
- Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
- The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。
- 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。
- The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- I am trying my best to prosecute my duties.我正在尽力履行我的职责。
- Is there enough evidence to prosecute?有没有起诉的足够证据？