VOA标准英语2010年-UN Urges North Korea to Continue Talks
时间：2019-01-20 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(二月)
UN political chief B. Lynn Pascoe speaks during a press conference at UNDP office building in Beijing, 12 Feb 2010
North Korea is not eager to return to six-party talks but has not rejected the idea, the U.N.'s top political official said on Friday following a trip to the reclusive country.
UN under-secretary-general for political affairs Lynn Pascoe said Friday he spent four days in Pyongyang having "useful talks" with senior members of the North Korean government, including top official Kim Yong-Nam .
But, Pascoe revealed that North Korea is not eager to return to six-party talks.
"The attitude right now as I said is they are not happy with the sanctions and they were certainly not eager - not ruling out but certainly not eager - to return to the Six Party Talks, so we'll see where that comes," he said.
Pascoe's comments came as news reports said North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye-gwan, was planning a rare visit to the U.S. next month.
But the UN envoy 1 refused to speculate on such a visit, citing the sensitivity surrounding the latest attempts by China this week to persuade North Korea to return to the six-party talks.
Meanwhile in Beijing, Chinese and North Korean officials met for a third day Thursday to try to restart the six-party talks, which Pyongyang has boycotted 2 since last year.
And the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan met in Seoul and demanded that North Korea return to the six-party talks unconditionally 3. South Korea's Yu Myung-hwan and his Japanese counterpart, Katsuya Okada, said North Korea also must make "practical progress" in denuclearization, before it can get any political or economic concessions 4.
Pascoe flies onto Tokyo and Seoul Saturday to brief the Japanese and South Korean governments.
The six-party talks involve the two Koreas, the United States, Russia, Japan and China. North Korea has conditioned its return to the talks on a lifting of international sanctions and a start to peace negotiations 5 with the United States.
A 1953 armistice ended the Korean War, but a formal peace treaty has never been signed
- 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。
- Athletes from several countries boycotted the Olympic Games. 有好几国的运动员抵制奥林匹克运动会。
- The opposition party earlier boycotted the Diet agenda, demanding Miyaji's resignation. 反对党曾杯葛国会议程，要宫路下台。
- All foreign troops must be withdrawn immediately and unconditionally. 所有外国军队必须立即无条件地撤出。
- It makes things very awkward to have your girls going back unconditionally just now! 你们现在是无条件上工，真糟糕！ 来自子夜部分
- The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工，公司将不得不作出一些让步。
- The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
- 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。