December 23, 2003 Текст 2 un Inspections in Libya to Start Soon

By Louis Charbonneau

Reuters

VIENNA, Austria – Libya has accepted intrusive UN inspections to convince the world it cannot hide banned nuclear weapons and snap checks could start soon, UN and Libyan officials said Monday.

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Moammar Gadhafi’s oil-rich state, long on the official U.S. list of sponsors of terrorism, said last week it was abandoning plans to build an atomic bomb and other banned weapons.

Senior ministers said Monday that Libya would sign an additional UN protocol allowing snap checks of nuclear sites. Asked when such checks would begin, Foreign Minister Mohamed Abderrhmane Chalgam said: "It will not take much time. We just need to discuss technical procedures."

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The head of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency based in Vienna said the inspections could start next week.

During much of his rule, Libya has been under U.S. or UN sanctions, accused of sponsoring or carrying out terrorist acts ranging from bombing airliners to training foreign guerrillas.

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France is pressing Libya to raise compensation for families of 170 victims of the bombing of a French airliner in 1989.

Britain said Libya may have been prompted to abandon its illegal arms programs by watching the fate of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Libya’s surprise moves could prompt the lifting of U.S. sanctions and the return of U.S. oil companies. They mark an about-face for the mercurial Gadhafi, who seized power 34 years ago.

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Iran yields to un

Tehran, Iran had pledged on Saturday to give the UN nuclear watchdog crucial letters next week making official its acceptance of tougher nuclear inspections and a suspension of its controversial uranium enrichment program.

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The UN international atomic energy agency has given Iran until October 31 to prove it does not have a nuclear weapons programme. The Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, said last week that Tehran would offer whatever cooperation was needed to show its nuclear programme was to produce electricity.

The Washington Post,

October 22, 2003

Упражнение II. Переведите беседу с листа:

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Q.: Расскажите, пожалуйста, о Международном суде ООН.

A.: The International Court of Justice which is often called "World Court" is the main judicial body of the UN. It was founded as far back as 1945.

Q.: Каков его состав, и кто его назначает?

A.: The Court is made up of fifteen judges, no two from the same nation. They are elected as persons, not as representatives of their nations, by the Security Council and the Assembly voting separately without any veto.

Q.: Обязаны ли члены ООН подчиняться решениям Международного суда?

A.: Member-states can certainly take their disputes before other tribunals of their own choice, but if they come into the World Court they are bound to accept the Court’s judgement.

Упражнение III. Переведите тексты 5 и 6 письменно:

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Middle east and africa want help not imposition

Democratic reform cannot be imposed on the middle east and africa from outside the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, told Tony Blair yesterday, rebuffing US proposals for the region.

"The president reiterated that any modernisation has to stem from the traditions and the culture in the area," a spokesman for the Egyptian embassy in London, Ayman al-Kaffa, told Associated Press.

"There is no magic wand that you can use to bring democracy overnight and definitely it cannot be dictated," Mr Kaffa added, though he said Egypt would welcome US and European support "to help the nations in the area reach peace and prosperity".

The Times,

April 2, 2003

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