old charter

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Cynics think the convention may even have been a ruse by some old-timer African leaders to avoid signing a pesky African charter on democracy and elections.
在剛果、蘇丹和中非地區(qū)，他們欺凌民眾，焚毀住房，驅(qū)趕百姓。批評者認(rèn)為，這個協(xié)議只是作為那些老練的非洲領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人為逃避簽署繁瑣的非洲民主和選舉憲章的一種策略罷了。
[font=Tahoma]SOME old men keep in a half-forgotten file their medal, inscribed with bureaucratic precision: “For service in defence of the principles of the charter of the United Nations”.
[font=Tahoma]在一個快被世人遺忘的文件柜里，一些老人至今仍保存著他們的獎?wù)?，上面刻著無懈可擊的官話：“獎勵給為維護聯(lián)合國憲章原則的勇士”。
And Mr Meshal still stubbornly refuses to disavow the Hamas charter, dismissing it breezily as an old document in reality overtaken by events yet still—by implication—useful as bargaining chip.
Meshal仍頑固地拒絕實施哈馬斯憲章，輕描淡寫地認(rèn)為其不過是一個古老過時的文件，已不適用于當(dāng)前事件-言下之意，無法用作談判砝碼。

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