03-18-08

国际奥委会称没有国家政府呼吁抵制奥运 (IOC Says No Governments Call for Olympic Boycott)

国际奥委会主席罗格说，没有任何国家的政府因为中国处理西藏局势的方式要求抵制北京奥运会。罗格说，他对主要国家政府几乎一致反对抵制奥运“感到鼓舞”。在此之前，欧洲国家的体育部长和奥委会星期一表示反对抵制北京奥运会。欧洲奥委会主席希基说，抵制奥运从来没有起过作用。

他补充说，抵制1976年蒙特利尔奥运会、1980年莫斯科奥运会和1984年洛杉矶奥运会只是惩罚了运动员。亲西藏的示威人士宣布星期二会在瑞士洛桑国际奥运会总部外面举行抗议活动。他们要求国际奥委会阻止北京奥运火炬穿越西藏的计划。

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge says no governments have called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games because of China's handling of the unrest in Tibet. Rogge said he had been "heartened" that major governments were "almost unanimously" against a boycott. His statement came after European sports ministers and Olympic committees came out against any boycott of the Games on Monday. European Olympic Committees head Patrick Hickey said boycotts never worked. 

He added that boycotts of the Montreal Games in 1976, Moscow Olympics in 1980 and at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles only punished the athletes. Pro-Tibet demonstrators announced plans for a protest outside the International Olympic Committee's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday. They will call on the IOC to block plans for the Olympic torch to pass through Tibet. 

联合国称伊拉克难民致申请政治庇护人数上升 (U.N. Says Iraq Refugees Fuel Rise in Asylum Seekers)

联合国负责难民事务的机构说，在工业化国家申请政治庇护的案例连续5年减少的趋势在2007年出现逆转，主要原因是由于申请庇护的伊拉克人持续增多。联合国难民事务高级专员公署星期二发表报告说，2007年，在工业化国家申请政治庇护的人数上升了10%。2006年是20年来申请案例最少的一年。

联合难民公署报告说，2007年，在申请庇护的人当中最多的是伊拉克人，这已经是连续第二年。他们的人数在2006年已经几乎翻了一番。去年，有4万5千多名伊拉克人申请庇护。

联合国难民公署说，因国内冲突而流离失所的伊拉克人据估计有450万，在工业化国家寻求庇护的伊拉克人只占其中的1%。

The U.N. refugee agency says a five-year decline in asylum applications in industrialized nations was reversed in 2007, largely due to a continued rise in Iraqi asylum seekers. In a release issued Tuesday The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reports the number of applications for refugee status in industrialized nations rose ten percent in 2007. 2006 had been the lowest for applications in 20 years.

The agency reports that Iraq asylum seekers top the list for the second year in a row in 2007 - and that number almost doubled from 2006. More than 45 thousand Iraqis applied for asylum last year.

The UNCHR says that Iraqi asylum seekers in industrialized countries make up only one percent of the estimated four-point-five million Iraqis displaced by the conflict in that nation.