10-21-2005

北约将向巴灾区派部队工程兵医疗队 (NATO to Send Troops, Engineers, Medical Teams to Quake-Hit Pakistan)

北约组织正在考虑一项方案，向巴基斯坦地震灾区派遣1千名军人的部队、几架直升机、几百名工程兵以及建立野战医院的医疗队。此前，联合国负责援助工作的最高官员埃格兰向北约提出请求，要求北约在考虑援助巴控克什米尔时，想象力要大，胆子要大。他说，国际社会在救助生命方面还没有完全尽力。

NATO to Send Troops, Engineers, Medical Teams to Quake-Hit Pakistan

NATO is considering a plan to send one thousand troops, several helicopters and hundreds of military engineers to earthquake-hit Pakistan, as well as medical units to set up a field hospital.

The move follows an appeal to NATO by the top United Nations relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, to think "big and bold" in its response to the massive relief effort in Pakistani Kashmir. He said the world is not doing what it can to save lives.

黎反驳UN对哈里里暗杀事件调查报告 (Syria Dismisses UN Probe Into Hariri Assassination)

联合国调查官员迈里斯公布一份54页的报告。报告说，暗杀行动是几个月前计划 好的。报告暗指叙利亚军事情报负责人、叙利亚总统阿萨德的妻舅肖卡特和其他 人与暗杀事件有牵连。

在贝鲁特，反叙利亚的议员赞成报告中的发现，并重新要求亲叙利亚的黎巴嫩总 统拉胡德下台。报告说，总统拉胡德在暗杀哈里里前不久接到一名暗杀事件嫌疑 人的电话。拉胡德总统办公室否认这一指控，并说他没有意图下台。

联合国秘书长安南把对今年2月发生在贝鲁特的这次汽车爆炸暗杀行动的调查延长到12月中旬。

U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis issued a 54-page report Thursday, saying the assassination was planned over many months. It implicates, among others, Syria's military intelligence chief (Asef Shawkat), who is the brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In Beirut, anti-Syrian legislators hailed the findings and renewed their calls for Lebanese President Emile Lahoud -- a close ally of Syria -- to resign.Mr. Mehlis' report says President Lahoud received a telephone call from a suspect in Mr. Hariri's assassination shortly before it occurred. The president's office has denied the accusation and says he has no intention of stepping down.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has extended the investigation until December 15th.