২৯/০২/২০১৬ এর The Daily Star Editorial
1.Cessation( বিরাম, বিরতি, ইস্তফা) : Desistance, mitigation, abstentions, forbearance
2.Hostilities( যুদ্ধবিগ্রহ, লড়াই, হিংস্রতা) : Fight, encounter, battle
3.swirling around ( কোন বিষয়ের প্রেক্ষিতে এক শ্রেনির লোকের মধ্যে বিস্তার লাভ/ ঘুরপাক খাওয়া)To circulate among some group of people in response to a particular subject; To circulate or occur in response to something or someone that is controversial, provocative, or secretive
4.brokered( দালালি, মধ্যস্থতা)
5.backed( সাহায্যপ্রাপ্ত) : Supported
6.whether( যদি)
7.truce( সাময়িক অস্ত্র বিরতি/ যুদ্ধ বিরতি চুক্তি)
8.eventually( অবশেষে, পরিশেষে) : Finally,
9.take hold( কার্যকর হয়): start to have an effect.
10.glimmer of hope( ভালো কিছু ঘটার কিঞ্চিৎ সম্ভাবনা/ আশা) the belief that there is a slight chance that something positive will happen
11.forestall( আগে কিছু করা): act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something.
12.looming( প্রতিভাত হওয়া, বিপদজনক কিছু ঘনিয়ে আসা)an event regarded as threatening) seem about to happen.
13. humanitarian( মানবতাবাদী)
14. besieged( অবরুদ্ধ, ঘেরাও,) Confined, Surrounded
15. put off( বন্ধ রাখা, খুলে ফেলা, কৌশলে এড়ানো) : evade elude, hold over
16. spill into( আছড়ে পড়া)
17. formal( আনুষ্ঠানিক, প্রথাগত)
18.ceasefire( অস্ত্র বিরতি, যুদ্ধ বিরতি)
19.ravaged( বিদ্ধস্ত, ধংস, ছারখার, লুটপাট) : devastated, annihilate, destroy
20.negotiations( আপস আলাপ-আলোচনা)
21.persistence( চালু থাকা, বজায় থাকা, বিদ্যমানতা) : existence, subsistence
22.stalemate ( অচল অবস্থা, দাবা খেলায় চাল মাত)
23. blostered( সহায়তা করা, সমর্থন দেয়া) : to add to, support, or uphold
24. status quo( বর্তমান অবস্থা) : the existing state or condition
25. untenable( অসমর্থনীয়, অচল) : incapable of being defended, as an argument, thesis, etc.; indefensible.
26. stakeholders( মধ্যস্থতাককারী)
27. Exhaust( নিঃশেষ হয়ে যাওয়া)
28. Crave out( কোন কিছুর ভিতর থেকে কিছু বের করে আনা)
এবার পড়ি
February 29, 2016
Cessation of Hostilities’ in Syria
Give peace a chance
DESPITE the many questions swirling around the ‘cessation of hostilities’, brokered by the US and Russia and backed by the UN Security Council, in Syria including whether a truce will eventually take hold, the plan offers a glimmer of hope. The development in the five-year-old war, that has seen more than a quarter of a million people killed, many more injured and millions displaced, could forestall a looming humanitarian crisis for a half million Syrians at risk of going hungry. And a truce allowing aid in besieged pockets of the country could put off a second wave of refugees to spill into Turkey and on to Europe.
Still some way from a formal ceasefire, this may be the most realistic outcome diplomats were able to secure given the complexity of the Syrian conflict. Simply put, the focus is now on allowing humanitarian access to war ravaged cities and creating conditions for further negotiations to take place without the persistence of war that has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad regime, IS, an array of rebels and Kurdish fighters at each other’s throat for years.
Time has come for Moscow and Tehran who, have bolstered the Assad regime, and the West, Turkey and some Gulf States, who back the rebel groups, to come to the realisation that the status quo is untenable for much longer. Peace can only be achieved by understanding among all stakeholders, not by outside force.
The international community, building on the pause to the bloodshed, should now exhaust all options to carve out a more formal ceasefire agreement.
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