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浏览:9132006-11-17 22:15:49 来自清月出岭光入扉: download Sudanese diplomats are consulting their Government about a new plan for a more effective peacekeeping force in Darfur. The United Nations Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland said western Darfur was engulfed in a crossfire that had virtually paralyzed humanitarian work. The new UN proposal would lead to a hybrid force of peacekeepers from the UN and the African Union. K A reports. “The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan says his meeting on Thursday with the key players in Darfur has made progress. He convened the session in Ethiopia because of Sudan’s refusal to allow UN peacekeepers to take over from the current African Union force. It seems Sudan has now accepted a role for the UN in bolstering the AU operation. Sudan has so far been adamant in its rejection of a UN presence in Darfur, which it says would be an attack on its sovereignty. And it seems despite Mr. Annan’s optimism, the grant Sudan might be willing to give on the issue remains slight.” As the unrest in Sudan’s Darfur region continues, the Prime Minister of neighboring Chad has called for a mobilization of the people against what he called a generalized war imposed by the Sudanese Government. Chad cut ties with Sudan earlier this year, accusing it of supporting a rebel movement. A spokesman for the Humanitarian Agency Oxfam, R H, told the BBC that people fleeing Darfur were finding it increasingly hard to reach safety. “The refugee camps, for the moment, are overfull. Some of them, certainly two camps are so close to the border that they seem a danger for the people coming to the camp because as the border sides regular incursion from both sides occur and these people as chased and harassed then try to flee further to more safe camp.” President Bush has arrived in Vietnam for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum—APEC. On his arrival, Mr. Bush spoke warmly of the wave Vietnam and its relations with the United States has changed in the thirty years since the Vietnam War ended. He is expected to press his fellow leaders at the APEC forum to revive the Doha round of world trade talks which broke down in July. President Hu Jintao of China has also arrived in Vietnam for the Forum. Addressing a business forum in Hanoi he urged multinational cooperations to fight global poverty by prioritizing investment in developing countries. An international conference on climate change is drawing to a close in Nairobi with delegates still divided on several key issues. Despite twelve days of talks, there’s no agreement on a review of the existing Kyoto agreement or on a timetable for negotiating further cuts in emissions of the polluting gases blamed for global warming. Our environmental correspondent Richard Black has more. “When Kofi Annan spoke here earlier in the week, he condemned what he called a lack of political leadership on climate change. Environment and development groups who have been observing the last two weeks of negotiations are in full agreement with that statement. There is no sign that a deal to cut emissions will be made here and that’s no surprise. But what frustrating many observers is that there’s little sign of even a firm timetable for agreeing cuts. In former discussions on some outstanding issues ran through the night here and they are still going on. The main issue is the review of the Kyoto Protocol which by the Protocol’s own rules should happen now.” 楼主
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