The top envoys of two of the United Nations Security Council permanent members are the latest diplomats to apply pressure on Sri Lanka, amid fears of a humanitarian crisis as a 25-year civil war on the island appears near its end. The British and Fr

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(四月)

Burma Draws Foreign Envoys Kevin Rudd became the first Australian foreign minister to visit Burma since 2002, Burma expert Sean Turnell of Australia's Macquarie University says Rudd and other diplomats are trying to get a sense of the new civilian go

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Negotiators seeking to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue are making progress on how to verify Pyongyang's own account of its nuclear activities. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. S. Korean envoy Kim Sook speaks to reporters in Beijing, 11 Jul

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By Steve Herman Islamabad 25 March 2008 Pakistan's president has sworn in a political enemy as prime minister. Meanwhile, two top U.S. State Department officials arrived in the country and held talks with the embattled president and the new governmen

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By David Gollust State Department 03 March 2008 The United States and European Union have dispatched envoys to Armenia to try to help defuse the political crisis underway since disputed elections February 19. The Bush administration says both sides i

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By Noel King Khartoum 15 February 2007 Amid growing concern over continued violence in Sudan's Darfur region, top United Nations and African Union envoys to the region said Thursday they remain optimistic that a political solution to the crisis can b

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 25 September 2006 Vatican Swiss guards salute a car with an Albanian flag at Pope Benedict XVI's summer residence, September 25, 2006 Pope Benedict has met with diplomats from predominantly Muslim countries and said both

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 27 June 2007 European Union officials have emerged from a diplomatic visit to North Korea with an upbeat assessment of Pyongyang's commitment to start dismantling its nuclear weapons. United Nations nuclear inspectors arrived in t

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South Koreans and Japanese envoys to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program have met in Tokyo. The negotiations remain deadlocked and North Korea is expected to test-fire a long-range missile in the coming weeks. Stephen Bosworth, left

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For the first time, North Korea has sent a delegation to present formal condolences to the family of a deceased South Korean president. The visit is a tribute to Kim Dae-jung's efforts at North-South reconciliation. But North Koreans who fled to the

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South and North Korea have resumed traffic across their tense border to a jointly run industrial zone, renewing hopes for the project's viability. The move reflects a thaw in tensions after recent diplomatic moves between the two Koreas. 韩国和北韩

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 June 2008 Special United Nations and African Union envoys on Darfur say prospects for substantive peace talks aimed at ending the crisis in Sudan's conflict ridden province of Darfur are dim. The diplomats failed to get pea

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Foreign interventions;When to hold and when to fold; 文艺;书评;来自外国的干扰;来自外国的干扰究竟该如何进退; Can Intervention Work? By Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus. 《干预有用吗

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 14 December 2007 Sri Lanka has been calling in foreign diplomats to express what the Foreign Ministry calls its deep displeasure over remarks by the diplomats' countries about the Sri Lankan human rights situation. VOA corre

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By Kurt Achin Beijing 14 February 2007 Explaining the painstakingly slow progress at the North Korean nuclear talks can be a complicated business. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Beijing that this week envoys found it useful to look for inspiration to

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Representatives(代表) from north and south Sudan are meeting Saturday to discuss the disputed Abyei region that was seized by northern forces a week ago. South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar traveled to Khartoum Saturday in an effort to lower ten

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The United States will send two senior officials to Syria within the next few days, possibly signaling a new direction in Middle East diplomacy by the Obama administration. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a statement in Jerusal

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European Union members are pulling all their ambassadors from Belarus after its the authoritarian government ordered the Polish and EU ambassadors out of the country. Belarus ordered the envoys to leave in reaction to new EU sanctions imposed against

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Senior international envoys vowed continued strong support for Afghanistan during strategy talks in Paris on Wednesday. This comes amid rising violence in Afghanistan and on the heels of the country's controversial elections. L-R, US Envoy Richard H

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Zimbabwe(津巴布韦) Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has accused the Zanu-PF party of President Robert Mugabe of persecuting his MDC group. He said Zanu-PF violated(侵犯) the law and spread the language of hate, and vowed not to let it continue. Mr

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