烏克蘭舉行民族團結會談
Ukrainian leaders have launched national unity talks in Kyiv Wednesday, a day after pro-Russian separatists killed seven government soldiers in the country's east and amid unconfirmed reports of fresh violence.
星期三，烏克蘭領導人在基輔舉行“民族團結”會談。一天前，親俄分離主義分子在烏克蘭東部打死7名烏克蘭軍人。未經證實的報道說，有新的暴力事件發生。
National lawmakers and regional officials, religious leaders and civic activists are attending the talks, part of a "road map" laid out by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
烏克蘭議會議員和地區官員參加了這次會談。這是一個歐洲安全與合作組織制定的路線圖計劃的一部分。
The OSCE plan calls on both the Ukrainian government and the separatists to refrain from violence. It also seeks immediate amnesty for those involved in the fighting and talks on decentralizing the country's political system and on the status of the Russian language.
歐安組織的計劃呼籲烏克蘭政府和分離分子保持克制，不要採取暴力。立即赦免曾參與戰鬥的人員。談判把國家政治制度非中央化，並討論俄語的地位。
But the separatist rebels are not represented, raising doubts about the negotiations’ effectiveness.
但分離主義武裝人員沒有出席會議，使得會談的有效性備受質疑。
At the talks, Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov sounded a hard line toward the rebels, saying Kyiv would not bow to blackmail.
在會談中，烏克蘭總統圖爾奇諾夫採取強硬路線，他說，基輔不會屈服於訛詐。
Turchynov said his government would use legal means to stop "those who, with weapons in their hands, are trying to wage war against their own country and impose their -- or, rather, the will of another state."
他說，他的政府將採用合法措施制止那些手持武器，試圖對自己的國家發動戰爭的人。這些人想把另一個國家的意志強加給烏克蘭。
On Tuesday, pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine killed seven government soldiers in an ambush of a military armored column near the city of Kramatorsk.
星期二，親俄分離主義分子在東烏克蘭城市克拉馬托爾斯克附近伏擊一支裝甲車隊，打死7名烏克蘭軍人。
On Wednesday, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted Vyacheslav Ponomarev, the self-styled "people's mayor" of Slovyansk, the rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, as saying eight government soldiers had been killed and seven wounded overnight in a battle with rebels outside Slovyansk.
星期三，俄羅斯國際文傳通訊社援引反叛力量據點斯洛文斯克自稱的人民市長波諾馬廖夫的話說，昨天夜間該市外圍的一場戰鬥中，有8名政府軍士兵被打死，7人受傷。
There was no immediate response to the claim from Kyiv.
基輔方面還沒有做出反應。
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Bloomberg Television on Wednesday that Ukraine “is as close to civil war as you can get” and that a solution must be found to satisfy all of its regions.
俄羅斯外長拉夫羅夫星期三對彭博電視臺說，烏克蘭已經非常接近內戰。必須找到讓各方滿意的解決辦法。
