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美国拒绝联合国关于防范未来大流行的宣言(赠阅文章)U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)

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美国拒绝联合国关于防范未来大流行的宣言。大多数成员国表示支持该宣言,但一些富裕国家提出了强烈反对意见。

U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.

周五,美国和欧盟拒绝了联合国成员国关于在防范和应对大流行病方面进行国际合作与团结的宣言。

The United States and the European Union on Friday rejected a declaration by member countries of the United Nations that pledged international collaboration and solidarity in preparing for and responding to pandemics.

该宣言是联合国大流行病防范高级别会议的产物,主要具有象征意义。

The declaration, the product of a high-level U.N. meeting on pandemic preparedness, is largely ceremonial. It is not legally binding, and does not set rules for what countries should do during pandemics. But its universal endorsement would have signaled a powerful expression of global political commitment to the issue.

它不具法律约束力,也没有为各国在大流行期间应采取的行动制定规则。

The declaration, the product of a high-level U.N. meeting on pandemic preparedness, is largely ceremonial. It is not legally binding, and does not set rules for what countries should do during pandemics. But its universal endorsement would have signaled a powerful expression of global political commitment to the issue.

但如果获得普遍认可,将标志着全球对该问题政治承诺的有力表达。

The declaration, the product of a high-level U.N. meeting on pandemic preparedness, is largely ceremonial. It is not legally binding, and does not set rules for what countries should do during pandemics. But its universal endorsement would have signaled a powerful expression of global political commitment to the issue.

一些最富裕国家的拒绝加剧了新冠疫情期间显现出的分歧,当时低收入国家在为公民提供疫苗方面比富裕国家落后了一年多。

Its rejection by some of the wealthiest countries sharpened the divide that became apparent during the coronavirus pandemic, when low-income nations lagged richer countries by more than a year in being able to provide vaccines to citizens.

该宣言将在联合国大会的未来会议上审议,届时仍有可能获得足够的票数通过。各方分歧的原因各不相同。

The declaration will now be considered at a future meeting of the General Assembly, where it is still likely to garner enough votes to be adopted.

欧盟表示,该文件触及了知识产权保护的“红线”,并强调“技术转让必须是自愿的,且基于双方同意的条款”。特朗普政府的反对意见则更多出于意识形态。

The reasons for the disagreements varied. The European Union said the document crossed “red lines” on intellectual property protections, and that “technology transfer must be voluntary and on mutually agreed terms.”

代表美国出席会议的美国疾病控制与预防中心新任主任埃里卡·施瓦茨博士表示,尽管进行了一些有意义的修订,但该文件包含了“缺乏定义共识的分裂性意识形态”,并补充说“美国无法完全支持该文本”。

The Trump administration’s objections were more along ideological lines. Representing the United States at the session, Dr. Erica Schwartz, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that despite some meaningful revisions, the document included “divisive ideologies that lack definitional consensus,” adding that “the United States is not in a position to support this text in full.”