At U.N., New Syria Envoy Gives Bleak AppraisalBy NEIL MacFARQUHAR September 25, 2012敘利亞新特使提交報(bào)告報(bào)道 2012年09月25日UNITED NATIONS — Prospects for any settlement in the Syriaconflict remain dismal, but not impossible, the new Syria peace envoy said Monday, telling Security Council diplomats that the government of President Bashar al-Assad still clung to the notion that pre-revolution Syria could be resurrected. 聯(lián)合國——本周一，新任敘利亞和平特使拉赫達(dá)爾·卜拉西米(Lakhdar Brahimi)對(duì)聯(lián)合國安理會(huì)(Security Council)外交人員表示，解決敘利亞沖突的前景依然很不明朗，但也并不是全無可能。他還說，巴沙爾·阿薩德(Bashar al-Assad)政府依然堅(jiān)信，還可以讓敘利亞恢復(fù)革命之前的狀態(tài)。 It was the first report to the Security Council by Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran United Nations troubleshooter and former Algerian foreign minister who took on the job of Syria peace envoy three weeks ago after his predecessor, Kofi Annan, resigned in frustration. The envoy serves both the United Nations and the Arab League. 這是卜拉西米向安理會(huì)提交的第一份報(bào)告。拉西米曾任阿爾及利亞外交部長，是聯(lián)合國(United Nations)麾下資深的沖突調(diào)解專家。三周以前，他從受挫辭職的前任特使科菲·安南(Kofi Annan)手中接過敘利亞和平特使一職。特使將同時(shí)服務(wù)于聯(lián)合國和阿拉伯聯(lián)盟(Arab League)。 “The situation in Syria is dire and getting worse by the day,” Mr. Brahimi told reporters after briefing the council in a closed meeting. Food shortages loom because the harvest was bad, and Syria’s former self-sufficiency in goods like pharmaceuticals has evaporated with so many factories destroyed or closed by the spiraling violence, diplomats quoted him as saying. “敘利亞的局勢相當(dāng)嚴(yán)重，而且每況愈下，”卜拉西米在安理會(huì)的閉門會(huì)議上通報(bào)情況后告訴記者。外交人員引用他的話說，因?yàn)槭粘稍愀猓称范倘逼仍诿冀?。敘利亞的藥品等物資本來可以自給自足，這樣的局面如今不復(fù)存在，原因是不斷升級(jí)的暴力使得大批工廠遭到破壞或是關(guān)閉。 
Hussein Malla/Associated Press 阿勒頗敘利亞自由軍士兵利用鏡子觀察政府軍。 A political solution has proved elusive since the fighting began in March last year. 自去年三月開戰(zhàn)以來，事實(shí)已經(jīng)證明，政治解決方案很難達(dá)成。 “There is a stalemate; there is no prospect today or tomorrow to move forward,” Mr. Brahimi said to reporters. But “now that I have found out a little bit more about what is happening in the country and the region, I think we will find an opening in the not too distant future.” “形勢已經(jīng)陷入僵局；我預(yù)期，今天或者明天都無法取得進(jìn)展，”卜拉西米對(duì)記者們說。不過，他又表示“既然我已經(jīng)對(duì)這個(gè)國家和地區(qū)的局面了解得多了一點(diǎn)，我認(rèn)為，我們會(huì)在不太遠(yuǎn)的將來找到一個(gè)突破口?！?/p> Council diplomats said he told them that in talks with Mr. Assad last week, he found that the Syrian leader wanted to return to the old Syria rather than install any serious political change. 安理會(huì)外交官稱，卜拉西米告訴他們， 上周和阿薩德進(jìn)行談話時(shí)，他發(fā)現(xiàn)這位敘利亞領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人的打算是恢復(fù)舊日的敘利亞，而不是推行嚴(yán)肅的政治變革。 “I refuse to believe that reasonable people do not see that you cannot go backward, that you cannot go back to the Syria of the past,” Mr. Brahimi said at the news conference. “I told everybody in Damascus and elsewhere that reform is not enough anymore, what is needed is change.” 卜拉西米在新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上說，“我不相信，理智的民眾竟然會(huì)看不出來，你已經(jīng)沒有回頭路可走，你無法回到過去的敘利亞。我跟大馬士革和其他地方的所有人說過，改革已經(jīng)不夠了，這里需要的是變革?！?/p> Still, he stressed that he did not have a specific new plan, but was relying on the never-implemented six-point peace plan, basically a cease-fire, first proposed by Mr. Annan, as well as a communiqué calling for a political transition that many nations, including Syria’s staunch supporters Russia and China, signed off on in June. 盡管如此，卜拉西米強(qiáng)調(diào)，他并沒有具體的新計(jì)劃，目前只能依靠從未得到落實(shí)的六點(diǎn)和平計(jì)劃。首先由安南提出的這份和平計(jì)劃基本上就是一份?；饏f(xié)議，同時(shí)也是一份呼吁政治改革的公報(bào)。許多國家都在今年6月對(duì)該計(jì)劃表示了贊同，包括堅(jiān)定支持?jǐn)⒗麃喺亩砹_斯和中國。 Senior Arab officials and many United Nations diplomats have suggested that that plan needs to be revisited because although all five council members had signed off on it, they all objected to it later, but the plan does call for a political transition. 阿拉伯高級(jí)官員和許多聯(lián)合國外交人員都曾表示，該計(jì)劃需要修訂，因?yàn)楸M管五個(gè)聯(lián)合國常任理事國都曾在上面簽字，后來卻又都表示反對(duì)。不過，該計(jì)劃的確呼吁進(jìn)行政治改革。 The Security Council has been sharply divided on the issue of Syria, with Moscow and Beijing vetoing three resolutions. Many officials believe without that split, Damascus could not continue its violent, widespread oppression that, according to United Nations estimates, has killed more than 20,000 people. 在敘利亞問題上，安理會(huì)內(nèi)部一直存在嚴(yán)重分歧，莫斯科和北京已否決過三項(xiàng)決議。許多官員認(rèn)為，如果沒有這樣的分歧，大馬士革就無法繼續(xù)其大范圍的暴力鎮(zhèn)壓，而據(jù)聯(lián)合國估計(jì)，已有兩萬多人在鎮(zhèn)壓中喪生。 Mr. Brahimi also told the council that senior Syrian officials continue to argue that the uprising is a foreign plot rather than a peaceful protest movement and to claim that there are 5,000 foreign fighters in the country. 在向安理會(huì)的報(bào)告中，卜拉希米還提到，敘利亞高級(jí)官員仍然堅(jiān)稱反抗運(yùn)動(dòng)并不是和平抗議，而是外國策劃的一個(gè)陰謀，并且宣稱，敘利亞國內(nèi)有5000名外國武裝分子。 Although Mr. Brahimi stuck basically to a factual narrative of the situation, there was an undercurrent of frustration in the way he described it, diplomats said. He told Mr. Assad that his reforms were insufficient, and pointed out that most of those being detained by the government were Syrians, not foreigners, they said. 外交官員稱，盡管卜拉希米基本上是在用一種客觀的方式來描述敘利亞的形勢，他的話語中仍然透著一股失望情緒。他們說，卜拉希米曾告訴阿薩德，敘利亞的改革并不充分，并且向阿薩德指出，敘利亞政府關(guān)押的大多數(shù)是敘利亞人，而不是外國人。 The raging conflict is expected to be the focus of the United Nations general debate this week, with some 120 heads of state or government gathering in New York. Although no new initiatives on Syria are expected, some new ideas are being floated. 據(jù)估計(jì)，在本周舉行的聯(lián)合國一般性辯論當(dāng)中，敘利亞的激烈沖突將成為討論重點(diǎn)，屆時(shí)將有約120名國家元首或政府首腦齊聚紐約。盡管會(huì)上預(yù)計(jì)不會(huì)出臺(tái)關(guān)于敘利亞問題的新動(dòng)議，一些新的想法卻已經(jīng)浮出水面。 The opposition must develop a “common, democratic pluralistic platform” to reassure several hundred possible high level defectors that they have a future in Syria, Germany’s foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, told reporters. “This includes religious and ethnic tolerance.” 德國外長吉多·韋斯特韋勒(Guido Westerwelle)告訴記者，反對(duì)派需要建立一個(gè)“共同、民主的多元化平臺(tái)”，幫幾百名潛在的高層叛逃者樹立信心，讓后者相信自己在敘利亞有很好的前景。“這其中就包括宗教和種族寬容。” Representatives of many council nations, including Russia, India, France and Portugal, expressed the need to do more to reassure the Alawite religious minority that rules Syria that its rights would be guaranteed, diplomats said. 外交官員稱，俄國、印度、法國、葡萄牙等許多安理會(huì)成員國的代表均表示，需采取進(jìn)一步措施來安撫統(tǒng)治敘利亞的宗教少數(shù)派別阿拉維派，讓他們相信自己的權(quán)利會(huì)得到保障。 Still, the usual divisions on Syria were on display in the closed-door meeting, diplomats said. The Russians said more had to be done to stop the arming of the opposition, while the West blamed the Assad government. 外交官員還表示，盡管如此，在敘利亞問題上的一貫分歧還是在閉門會(huì)議中顯示了出來。俄國說需要采取進(jìn)一步措施來制止為反對(duì)派提供武裝的行為，西方則對(duì)阿薩德政府進(jìn)行了抨擊。 Mr. Brahimi said the full council needed to unite behind his efforts, and members seemed ready to give him the necessary time to come up with a plan. He is expected to return to the region next week and to visit Moscow and Beijing. 卜拉希米說，他的努力需要安理會(huì)全體成員國團(tuán)結(jié)一致的支持，與此同時(shí)，各成員國似乎也樂意給他足夠的時(shí)間來制定出一個(gè)計(jì)劃。卜拉希米預(yù)計(jì)將于下周返回中東，還會(huì)訪問莫斯科和北京。 “It is premature for any plan of action,” said Mohammed Loulichki, Morocco’s envoy to the United Nations, who attended Mr. Brahimi’s briefing. “現(xiàn)在制定任何行動(dòng)計(jì)劃都為時(shí)過早，”參加了卜拉希米報(bào)告會(huì)的摩洛哥常駐聯(lián)合國代表穆罕默德·盧利什基(MohammedLoulichki)表示。 “He gave a realistic, very factual assessment,” he said. “If you want to prevent yourself from being disappointed, you have to be very cautious.” “他對(duì)形勢進(jìn)行了實(shí)事求是、十分客觀的評(píng)估，”盧利什基說。“如果不想讓自己失望，你就得十分小心?！?/p> 2012-09-25
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