美俄在叙利亚问题上激辩联合国

The US and Russia laid out starkly different views about how to end the Syrian conflict yesterday as Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin exchanged the sort of rhetorical barbs that have not been seen at the UN since the cold war.

美国与俄罗斯昨日就如何结束叙利亚内战提出了截然不同的看法。美国总统巴拉克奥巴马(Barack Obama)与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔普京(Vladimir Putin)之间尖锐交锋，呈现冷战结束以来联合国未见的一幕。

While Mr Obama told the UN General Assembly that there could be no place in Syria’s future for President Bashar al-Assad, a “tyrant who drops barrel bombs on innocent children”, the Russian president urged the west to work with the “legitimate” Syrian government to defeat terrorism.

奥巴马在联合国大会(UN General Assembly)上称，叙利亚的未来不可能有现任总统巴沙尔阿萨德(Bashar al-assad)的位置，并称阿萨德是一个“向无辜儿童投下桶爆弹的暴君”，而俄罗斯总统则敦促西方与叙利亚“合法”政府一起打败恐怖主义。

After the US president called for a “managed transition” towards a new leader in Syria, Mr Putin proposed the formation of a new international coalition to defeat the Islamist militants of Isis that would be “similar to the anti-Hitler alliance”.

在奥巴马呼吁在叙利亚进行向新领导人“有管理的过渡”后，普京提议成立一个“类似于反希特勒联盟”的新国际联盟，战胜“伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯兰国”(Isis)的伊斯兰主义武装分子。

The Russian leader said that the Assad regime was crucial to the fight against Isis. “We think it is an enormous mistake to refuse co-operating with the Syrian government which is valiantly fighting terrorism,” he said.

普京称，阿萨德政权对于打击Isis至关重要。“我们认为，拒绝与正在奋勇打击恐怖主义的叙利亚政府合作是一个巨大的错误，”他说。