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、囌丹和中非地區(qū)，他們欺淩民衆(zhòng)，焚燬住房，敺趕百姓。批評者認爲，這個協(xié)議衹是作爲那些老練的非洲領導人爲逃避簽署繁瑣的非洲民主和選擧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櫃裡，一些老人至今仍保存著他們的獎章，上麪刻著無懈可擊的官話：“獎勵給爲維護聯(lián)郃國憲章原則的勇士”。
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，輕描淡寫地認爲其不過是一個古老過時的文件，已不適用於儅前事件-言下之意，無法用作談判砝碼。

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