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.
在刚果、苏丹和中非地区，他们欺凌民众，焚毁住房，驱赶百姓。批评者认为，这个协议只是作为那些老练的非洲领导人为逃避签署繁琐的非洲民主和选举宪章的一种策略罢了。
[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]在一个快被世人遗忘的文件柜里，一些老人至今仍保存着他们的奖章，上面刻着无懈可击的官话：“奖励给为维护联合国宪章原则的勇士”。
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仍顽固地拒绝实施哈马斯宪章，轻描淡写地认为其不过是一个古老过时的文件，已不适用于当前事件-言下之意，无法用作谈判砝码。

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