由于中俄抵制 南极海洋保护区计划告寝.pptxVIP

SYDNEY, Australia — International talks in Australia on establishing two marine reserve areas, each larger than Texas, in the wate ers around Antarctica ended in failure on Friday, with some delegates to the negotiations saying that China and Russia had resiste d the proposals. 澳大利亚悉尼——在澳大利亚举行的关于在南极附近水域建立两个海洋保护区的国际谈判，周五以失败告终。这两个保护区中的任何一个，面积都超过了美国的德克萨斯州。一些参与谈判的代表称，中国和俄罗斯抵制了上述提议。 The United States and New Zealand had jointly proposed the creation of a 500,000-square-mile reserve in the Ross Sea, in the hopes of allevia ting pressure on Antarctic species facing the effects of climate change and fishing. A second major proposal, from Australia, Fran ce and the European Union, would have set up a series of four reserves in the east Antarctic waters, covering about 386,000 square miles. 此前，美国和新西兰联合倡议，在罗斯海建立50万平方英里的保护区，从而减轻南极物种因为气候变化和捕鱼的影响所造成的压力。另外一个重要的提议来自澳大利亚、法国和欧盟，包括在南极东部水域建立作为一个整体的四个保护区，面积约为38.6万平方英里。 Bu t neither was approved at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which en ded Friday in the Australian city of Hobart after two weeks of talks among government officials, scientists and environmentalists from 24 countries and the European Union. 但在南极海洋生物资源养护委员会(Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources)的年度 会议上，这两项提议都没有通过。在来自24个国家以及欧盟的政府官员、科学家和环保人士进行了两周的谈判之后，会议于周五在澳大利亚的霍巴特结束。 Any one of the commission’s member states can block a major proposal like the creation of a marine reserve. The commission does not make its deliberations public, but several nonvoting deleg ates from nongovernmental organizations said China and Russia were the only countries to speak against the two proposals, both of which have been presented before in various iterations. 委员会的所有成员国都可以否决建立海洋保护区这样重大的协议。委员会不公开审议过程，但几名非政府组织的无表决权代表称，中国和俄罗斯是仅有的反对这两项提议 的国家。此前，这两项提议都已通过多个版本被呈现。 “The overall political situation, where Russia is in a political confrontation with other countries, main ly Western or NATO countries, overs