时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)


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By David Gollust
State Department
27 December 2006


The United States said Wednesday Israel's plan to build a new settlement in the West Bank would violate Israeli obligations under the international Middle East peace road map. The State Department said U.S. diplomats 1 are seeking an explanation from Israel. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.






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In unusually blunt comments, the United States said Israel's plan to build its first new West Bank settlement in a decade would violate the 2003 road map to Middle East peace, and it is reminding the Israeli government that making peace with the Palestinians requires good faith on both sides.


The comments from the State Department followed an announcement Tuesday that a former Israeli army camp in the northern Jordan Valley region of the West Bank will become a settlement housing some Israelis forced to leave Gaza when Israel dismantled 3 its settlements there in 2005.


In a talk with reporters, acting 4 State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said the United States, through diplomatic channels, is asking Israel for a clarification of its plans regarding the Maskiot settlement.


"The establishment of a new settlement or the expansion of an existing settlement would violate Israel's obligations under the road map," said Gallegos. "We are seeking an explanation from the Israeli government regarding this development. The U.S. calls on Israel to meet its road map obligations and avoid taking steps that could be viewed as pre-determining the outcome of final-status negotiations 5."


Spokesman Gallegos said the road map states that progress in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts will require, and depend on, good faith efforts by both parties.


He said the United States will continue to work with Israel and the Palestinians toward the realization 6 of a two-state settlement of the regional conflict.


The international Middle East "Quartet" - the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations - issued the road map in April, 2003.


The first phase of the multi-year peace plan calls for a freeze on Israeli settlement building and a Palestinian push to dismantle 2 terrorist groups.


The European Union reacted strongly to the Israeli announcement, expressing deep concern and saying such unilateral actions are illegal under international law.


Also condemned 7 by the Palestinians, the settlement move followed some conciliatory steps including a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem last Saturday.


The Bush administration has recently been pressed by Arab governments and the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group to renew Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking efforts. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she plans to visit the region early in the new year to explore chances for progress.



n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vt.拆开,拆卸;废除,取消
  • He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助,拆除这批弹头。
  • The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动,于是,我决定把它拆开。
拆开( dismantle的过去式和过去分词 ); 拆卸; 废除; 取消
  • The plant was dismantled of all its equipment and furniture. 这家工厂的设备和家具全被拆除了。
  • The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled. 日本帝国很快被打垮了。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • 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。
n.实现;认识到,深刻了解
  • We shall gladly lend every effort in our power toward its realization.我们将乐意为它的实现而竭尽全力。
  • He came to the realization that he would never make a good teacher.他逐渐认识到自己永远不会成为好老师。
学英语单词
Abraham Bay
acapnial
acceptance acknowledge
add without carry gate
albategnius
American Association of Criminology
anoxic anoxias
antiseptics
Archman
awniest
bilgess
blackmaster
bow rope
bowls
brain-storming
buttress root
caer-myrddin
Carhacholine
carvoeila
chair mat
chondriosome body
clearance of Evans blue
clock pulses
costlykly
countersea
dead balls
degreasings
dinitrofluorobenzene
disk-doughnut baffle
Doneraile
Dvuluchnoye
dynamical system model
dyncm
East Slavic
ecp (estimated critical position)
ectopy
elaeocarpus decipiens hemsl.
epileptic sizure
export bonus
fast-forwards
Fehling's reaction
floterial
focalising
frontal margin
full feathering propeller
GMPCS
group of 77
h.e
hastina subfalcaria caeruleolineata
higher harmonic current
hydroxyl-Pyromorphite
industrial dermatosis
international phototelegraph service
kauluamine
kneten
Laosensis
liaonings
Lichtheim
macro meter
microburner
missile position tracking group
non-restoring method
non-steady supercritical flow
nonregularizable
Novyy Terek
ochre puree
orpheus and eurydice
parachlorophenylalanine (pcpa)
pericopic
phone it in
polyfluorination
pretences
purple copper (ore)
put in best solid licks
Pythagorean School
remote digital loopback test
right of concession
rotary block
rule of procedure
sand tigers
sequence-checking
sheet pile grouting wall
shot-firing control
sinus irregularity
smooth and stepless acceleraton
sonsini
speedrun
squallery
st. ambroses
superplanet
three-terminal circulator
tonifying prescription
travellingstay
tropic turgor movement
type b display
Uruguay potato vine
valderrama
Waldbrunn
wardswomen
wing bone
work-to-contract
xanthomatosis bulbi