双语新闻：西方对俄制裁压垮欧亚联盟

2014-09-09 12:01:19来源：可可英语

　　Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh president, implicitly criticised Russian policy last week inMinsk, saying tit-for-tat sanctions were “a road to nowhere”.

　　哈萨克斯坦总统努尔苏丹•纳扎尔巴耶夫(Nursultan Nazarbayev)上周在明斯克含蓄批评了俄罗斯的政策，称针锋相对的制裁是“无果之路”。

　　The Eurasian Economic Union is viewed by some in the west as an attempt by Mr Putin torecreate the Soviet Union.

　　欧亚经济联盟被西方某些人视为普京重建苏联的努力。

　　Yet the lack of a common stance undermines its stated aim of creating a common market withfree movement of capital, goods, services, and labour.

　　然而，由于缺乏共同立场，其宣示的创建一个资本、商品、服务和劳动力自由流动的共同市场的目标遭到削弱。

　　“It’s very much a problem for relations inside the union,” says Dosym Satpayev, head of RiskAssessment Group, a think-tank in Almaty. “I am not sure that this integration project willexist in the long term.”

　　阿拉木图智库风险评估集团(Risk Assessment Group)掌门人多瑟姆•萨帕耶夫(Dosym Satpayev)表示：“欧亚联盟内部关系存在很大的问题。我不确定这个一体化项目是否会长期存在。”

　　The strains have become clearer in recent days. Last week, amid growing concerns aboutRussia’s stand-off with the west, Mr Nazarbayev, who first proposed the idea of a union ofpost-Soviet states two decades ago, raised the possibility of leaving it.

　　近日这种内部紧张变得更为明显。上周，在各方越来越担心俄罗斯与西方对峙的背景下，纳扎尔巴耶夫提出了退出欧亚联盟的可能性。纳扎尔巴耶夫在20年前首先提出了后苏联国家成立联盟的想法。

　　“Kazakhstan has the right to leave the Eurasian Economic Union,” he said in an interview withstate television. “Kazakhstan will not enter an organisation which threatens ourindependence.”

　　他在接受官方电视台采访时表示：“哈萨克斯坦有权退出欧亚经济联盟。哈萨克斯坦不会加入危及本国独立的组织。”

　　Both Moscow and Astana play down the prospect of Kazakhstan’s leaving the EEU, which is notdue to come into existence formally until January.

　　莫斯科和阿斯塔纳双方都有意淡化哈萨克斯坦退出欧亚经济联盟的前景。欧亚经济联盟要到明年1月才会正式问世。

　　Nonetheless, officials and analysts agree that the crisis in Ukraine has strained relations. “It isclear now that this association with Russia can cost Kazakhstan dearly,” says one person withknowledge of government thinking in Astana.

　　然而，官员和分析师们同意乌克兰危机让各方关系紧张的看法。一位了解阿斯塔纳政府思路的人士表示：“现在明显的是，与俄罗斯的这种联系可能让哈萨克斯坦吃大亏。”

　　Kazakhstan has long sought to balance the competing interests of its two powerful neighbours,Russia and China. But its strong trade, financial and social ties with Russia mean that sanctionsagainst Moscow are inevitably affecting Kazakhstan, says Umut Shayakhmetova, chairman ofthe board of Halyk Bank, Kazakhstan’s second-largest lender.

　　哈萨克斯坦长期寻求平衡两大邻国俄罗斯和中国相互竞争的利益。但哈萨克斯坦第二大银行——国民银行(Halyk Bank)董事长乌穆特•沙亚赫梅托瓦(Umut Shayakhmetova)表示，该国与俄罗斯密切的贸易、金融和社会联系意味着，对莫斯科的制裁将不可避免地影响哈萨克斯坦。

　　“We are already getting lots of compliance questions from western banks,” she says,predicting the effect of sanctions against Moscow would be “very bad” for Kazakhstan.

　　沙亚赫梅托瓦表示：“西方银行已经对我们提出了许多合规问题。”她预计，制裁莫斯科将对哈萨克斯坦产生“非常不利”的影响。

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