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Updated: 2005-08-02 11:15


Bush installs Bolton as U.N. ambassador

美国总统布什8月1日绕过参议院任命约翰·博尔顿为美国驻联合国大使,而民主党参议员则表示强硬的博尔顿将会损害美国的声誉。据路透社报道,此次任命仪式是在白宫罗斯福厅举行的。除布什和博尔顿外,美国国务卿赖斯也出席了这一仪式。

Bush installs Bolton as U.N. ambassador
The new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton departs from the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in New York, August 1, 2005.

President Bush bypassed the Senate and installed John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Monday over protests by Democrats that the combative critic of the world body would hurt U.S. credibility.

Five months after nominating Bolton, Bush appointed him in a subdued White House Roosevelt Room ceremony with Bolton beside him and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice standing nearby.

"This post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about U.N. reform. So today I've used my constitutional authority to appoint John Bolton as America's ambassador to the United Nations," Bush said.

Bolton, 56, will be able to serve until January 2007, when a new Congress is sworn in. Bush gave Bolton a "recess appointment," taking advantage of aloopholethat allows him to make such appointments when Congress isin recess.

Recess appointments are by no means rare but it was believed to be the first time such an appointment had been made for the job of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy called it an abuse of power.

"It's adeviousmaneuver that evades the constitutional requirement of Senate consent and only further darkens the cloud over Mr. Bolton's credibility at the U.N.," he said.

Bush sidestepped the Senate confirmation process after it became clear he would not be able to overcome Democrats who held up the nomination of the outspoken conservative on charges he tried to manipulate intelligence and intimidated intelligence analysts to support his hawkish views as the top State Department diplomat for arms control.

(Agencies)

 

Vocabulary:
 

loophole: an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation(漏洞)

in recess: (暂停,休息)

devious: indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way(迂回的,曲折的)

 
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