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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Calls for Change Mark 60th Anniversary of United Nations
By Jill Moss 1


Broadcast: Monday, June 27, 2005


I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report.


 
United Nations in New York
The United Nations was created on June twenty-sixth, nineteen forty-five. Representatives from fifty countries signed charter documents in San Francisco, California. Four months later, the U.N. officially came to exist, after a majority of those countries approved the charter.


The United Nations Association of San Francisco organized events to mark the sixtieth anniversary. Organizers invited many former world leaders. They also invited President Bush or a high-level representative. The administration chose Sichan Siv, the American representative on the U.N. Economic and Social Council.


The anniversary comes as the United Nations faces calls for reforms. The organization is criticized for its supervision 2 of the Iraq oil-for-food program, for sex crimes by U.N. peacekeepers and for other reasons.


On June twenty-second the United States proposed a reform plan to the U.N. General Assembly. The plan includes more seats for the Security Council. The United States says it supports "two or so" new permanent members, including Japan, and two or three more non-permanent seats.


Japan, Brazil, India and Germany have jointly 3 proposed their own expansion plan. It would include them as permanent members, along with two African nations. China rejects a permanent seat for Japan.


Other reform proposals being discussed include replacing the U.N. human rights commission with a smaller council. It would exclude countries with poor human rights records.


In March, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan offered his own reform plan. He proposed expanding the Security Council and creating a new human rights council. His plan also includes ideas for defining terrorism, and new rules on when to use military force. World leaders are to consider the proposals in New York in September.


In Washington, Senate Democrats 4 have delayed a vote on President Bush's nominee 5 for U.N. ambassador. They say John Bolton is wrong for the job. He has strongly criticized the United Nations.


In the House of Representatives, lawmakers recently passed a Republican bill to pressure the United Nations. The bill calls for the United States to make only half its U.N. payments unless there are reforms by two thousand seven. The Bush administration opposes that bill.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss. Our reports are on the Web at voaspecialenglish. I'm Gwen Outen.



n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
n.监督,管理
  • The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
  • The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
ad.联合地,共同地
  • Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
  • She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
学英语单词
-isation
2-methylbutane
accident death
acrilans
alcoholates
ampere square meter per joule second
anticoincidence unit
automatic message exchange system
baker's itch
ballistocardiograph
bare-legged
battistich
Bertrand curve
biographic data
blehers
bone lacuna
british meson
bryde
buf-fleheaded
butt-ended
cizar
clout-shoe
come play
congnitron
countercurrent absorption
crank-arm
crater pit
cuadra
disc-valve
dry feeding
enterogenous cyst
etolorex
fermi (fm)
fluviomorphology
garrison state
GC-MS-COM
glanceless
guignardia alnigena nishikado et k. watanabe
Hedysarum petrovii
held on to
hemifacial microsomia
history-sheeters
Holothuria edulis
huperzines
hypersensitive response
illini
inemanability
itching
kia quens
kid sisters
kooyer
Krivodol
laying effect
leading astrays
local legend
mack
Matugama
multiple T-maze
nonrevascularizable
occipitalia
Ommi
optic monoaxial crystal
originating railway and destination railway
other-directed
paracloxornis paradoxa
partial allopolyploidy
perishable supplies
perpetual annuity
person active military service
Peters Ridge
phase contact area
piezoelectric type vibration gauge
planetary houses
plumcake
pricing hierarchy
rationed exchange
receiver house
reducements
rotor without blades
santal oil
SCSH
seductionist
semiconductor films
shippig of freight
short-line seeking
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
south-african jade
spratly
stretch yarn
support systems
suprasternal
tartabull
tissue homogenate
titanium getter pump
UK-2371
upper lock approch
variable-speed winch
verandahs
vixenly
weed vine
wideband carrier system
worsam