VOA常速英语2008年-Serbian President Calls for End to Violence
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Budapest
22 February 2008
Serbian President Boris Tadic has called for an end to violence after rioters opposed to Kosovo's declaration of independence ransacked 1 U.S. and other embassies in Belgrade, killing 2 one person. The call comes amid new clashes across the border in Kosovo and mounting European Union pressure on Serbia to rein 3 in violent protestors. Stefan Bos reports for VOA from Budapest.
President Boris Tadic said Friday he would call an emergency meeting of Serbia's top security body, the National Security Council, to deal with mounting tensions and violence following Kosovo's declaration of independence.
In a televised appeal, he urged Serbs to protest in a peaceful way, after Thursday's attack by protesters on the U.S. and other embassies of countries that recognized Kosovo's break from Serbia. He said the attacks on embassies do not contribute to Serbia's integrity or dignity or its claim that Kosovo belongs to Serbia.
President Tadic, who is regarded as pro-Western, made his appeal after the European Union and the United States condemned 4 the embassy attacks.
In addition, the European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana warned that Belgrade's failure to rein in violent protesters could undermine Serbia's prospects 5 for joining the EU and the signing of a key Stabilization 6 and Association Agreement, or SAA, with Europe.
"These acts of violence lead nowhere. They cannot help anybody," he said. "Things will have to calm down before we can recuperate 7 the climate that will allow any contact to move on the SAA."
Serbian authorities were quick to point out that police detained some 200 people in connection with Thursday's violence that reportedly left one person dead and at least 130 injured.
Across the border, in Kosovo, there were new clashes on Friday.
Several thousand Serb demonstrators opposing Kosovo's independence, attempted to march over a bridge separating the Serb and ethnic 8 Albanian sides of Kosovo's ethnically 9 divided city of Mitrovica. Several protesters hurled 10 firecrackers and flares 11 at United Nations police, who tried to keep the protesters away from the bridge.
Serbs waved Serbian flags and chanted "Kosovo is ours."
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has expressed concern about the clashes. Mr. Thaci, recalling the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, asked Serbs to move forward.
"My message to Serbs in Serbia is to look forward and not to work with the mentality 12 of the past, with the mentality of Milosevic-time," he said. "And the pictures of yesterday in Belgrade were pictures of Milosevic's time. They are not a reaction against the people of Kosovo or against Kosovo. It was a reaction against a democratic world."
Belgrade says although it condemns 13 violence, it will continue a diplomatic campaign against the loss of Kosovo, including withdrawing ambassadors from countries that recognize the independence of the Albanian majority province.
Serbs comprise less than 10 percent of Kosovo's two million population.
- The house had been ransacked by burglars. 这房子遭到了盗贼的洗劫。
- The house had been ransacked of all that was worth anything. 屋子里所有值钱的东西都被抢去了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The horse answered to the slightest pull on the rein.只要缰绳轻轻一拉,马就作出反应。
- He never drew rein for a moment till he reached the river.他一刻不停地一直跑到河边。
- There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
- They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
- The position of barycentre on plane directly impacts the stabilization and manipulation of plane. 飞机重心位置直接影响飞机的稳定和操纵特性。
- With the higher olefins, stabilization of the energetic intermediates occurs more easily. 在较高的烯烃情况下,高能的中间物稳定作用更易出现。
- Stay in the hospital for a few more days to recuperate.再住院几天,好好地恢复。
- He went to the country to recuperate.他去乡下养病去了。
- 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。
- Ethnically, the Yuan Empire comprised most of modern China's ethnic groups. 元朝的民族成分包括现今中国绝大多数民族。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
- Russia is ethnically relatively homogeneous. 俄罗斯是个民族成分相对单一的国家。 来自辞典例句
- He hurled a brick through the window. 他往窗户里扔了块砖。
- The strong wind hurled down bits of the roof. 大风把屋顶的瓦片刮了下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The side of a ship flares from the keel to the deck. 船舷从龙骨向甲板外倾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He's got a fiery temper and flares up at the slightest provocation. 他是火爆性子,一点就着。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
- Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。