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By Lisa Bryant
Paris
26 May 2008

European foreign ministers agreed Monday to begin negotiations 2 with Russia for a new partnership 3 treaty amid disagreements between the two sides on defense 4, diplomatic and energy issues. For VOA, Lisa Bryant has more from Paris.


The European Union agreement to launch partnership talks with Russia ends months of objections by several eastern EU members. The EU and Russia are expected to formally launch the partnership talks at a summit next month.


Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel of Slovenia, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency 5, says he expects discussions to last about a year and ratification 6 another year although some analysts 8 predict the entire process will take several years.


"We are not in front of a quick fix, but indeed the process has started" he said. "During the negotiations we should be able to clarify all the problems that exist between the EU and the Russian federation 9. But all in all...the Russian federation and the EU are partners and we want to work together."


Relations between Brussels and Moscow are far from perfect. Russia opposes plans to deploy 10 a U.S. nuclear shield in EU members Poland and the Czech Republic. And some EU members like Romania are particularly concerned about Russia's ties to separatist movements in Moldova and Georgia. The 27-member bloc 11 also worries about its growing dependency on Russian gas, which supplies about a quarter of their needs.


Analyst 7 Michael Emerson of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels, characterizes some EU-Russian differences, particularly over Russian policies toward former Soviet 12 Republics, as "deep." He says it's unclear exactly what kind of partnership accord will eventually be struck.


"There's a range of scenarios," said Emerson. "One is that it will result in a purely 13 declaratory document or a framework document that will lead to further binding 14 negotiations on concrete topics later. Or it could be a major negotiation 1 seeking binding and substantive 15 agreements on a whole range of economic and political issues. The EU wants the second, and I think Russia wants the first."


If it is realized, the new partnership agreement would replace an accord signed in 1997 when the issues facing the two sides were very different than they are today.




n.谈判,协商
  • They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判,他们的食糖生意成交了。
  • The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
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。
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • 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。
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
n.批准,认可
  • The treaty is awaiting ratification.条约正等待批准。
  • The treaty is subject to ratification.此条约经批准后才能生效。
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
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。
n.集团;联盟
  • A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
  • There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
adv.纯粹地,完全地
  • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
  • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
有约束力的,有效的,应遵守的
  • The contract was not signed and has no binding force. 合同没有签署因而没有约束力。
  • Both sides have agreed that the arbitration will be binding. 双方都赞同仲裁具有约束力。
adj.表示实在的;本质的、实质性的;独立的;n.实词,实名词;独立存在的实体
  • They plan to meet again in Rome very soon to begin substantive negotiations.他们计划不久在罗马再次会晤以开始实质性的谈判。
  • A president needs substantive advice,but he also requires emotional succor. 一个总统需要实质性的建议,但也需要感情上的支持。
学英语单词
amphidiploid hybrid
annealing color
asthenic form
asura tricolor
Bothriocephalus latus
branling
by-pass capacitor
Calaceite
Caltraghlea
Casas de los Pinos
Cedar Breaks National Monument
chronic yellow atrophy of liver
cleuch
coarse azimuth
coefficient of rolling friction
collimating cone
collision threat assessment system
colubriferous
complementary events
comunales
constitutive substance
convexifies
crm (count rate meter)
crude iron
crypto-anarchists
cyber espionage
direct production cost
double overhead wide belt sander
ductility transition
electric dipole radiation
embedded lump
error probability classification
etrange
extra classes
fibre needle
field intensity curve
flush system buffer
free speed
fungicidal finish
herborist
Herculanean
homeschoolers
i-tend
implicit schemes
inclinatio Pelvis
insertest
inside broker
isochratic
JRT
jungfraujoch
Khodyashevo
kommunalka
long-continued questioning
marcour
mars pigment
masseteric cutaneous ligament
minidomes
mirada
Nanam
night-vision
Norte, Pta.
nutrigenetics
octlet
orbicularity
outer orbital configuration
Oxford-Groupel
painting on a bamboo curtain
peace marcher
pellucistoma magnolioidea
platform shoe
point-device,point-devise
problemists
prolixness
promoteability
rattail radish
Reophax
riordon
roundspeople
Runsten
safety instrument
salt sedative
saluside
self-consequence
semibituminous coal
slender loriss
sliding poise
sodium penicillin K
special purpose radar set
sponge out
sporterized
sufficient light
suspect ... of
taglia
three-boom drift-jumbo
tituled
tri-pronged-type universal joint
two bin inventory system
up-side-down
vijayas
Whitekirk
won't kill you him
zounds