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| "The Court considers that general international law does not contain any prohibition on declarations of independence," |
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“法院认为，国际法中并不包含禁止宣布独立的内容。” |
| said the president of the International Court of Justice, Hisashi Owada, as he read the court's non-binding opinion. |
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国际法院院长小和田恒宣读这项没有法律约束力的观点时表示。 |
| "Accordingly, it concludes that the declaration of independence on the 17th of February 2008 did not violate general international law." |
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“相应的，国际法院得出结论，2008年2 月17 日，科索沃宣布独立并不违反国际法。” |
| That ruling came as a setback for Serbia, which had asked the International Court of Justice, the ICJ, to give an opinion on Kosovo's declaration. |
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该裁决对塞尔维亚来说是一个重大打击。塞尔维亚一直要求国际法院对科索沃宣布独立给出意见。 |
| Serbian President Boris Tadic said Serbia would not recognize Kosovo's independence. |
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塞尔维亚总统塔迪奇称，塞尔维亚永远不会承认科索沃的独立。 |
| Kosovo officials hailed the decision. In Washington, visiting Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci called the ruling "the best possible answer for the entire world." |
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科索沃官员对该决定表示欢迎。正在访问华盛顿的科索沃总理哈新姆·塔西称该裁决是“全世界最好的答复”。 |
| Trial observers said the court's non-binding ruling could encourage more countries to recognize Kosovo's independence. |
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审判观察员表示，法院不具法律约束力的裁决将鼓励更多国家认可科索沃的独立地位。 |
| Kosovo's statehood has been recognized by 69 countries, including the United States and most European Union nations. |
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目前已有69 个国家承认科索沃的国家地位，包括美国和欧盟大部分国家。 |
| But Serbia and its main ally Russia and several others have opposed the move. |
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但是塞尔维亚及其主要盟国俄罗斯以及其他一些国家反对这样做。 |
| In Washington, the U.S. State Department expressed support for the ICJ ruling and urged Europe to "unite behind a common future." |
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在华盛顿，美国国务院表达了对ICJ 裁决的支持，敦促欧洲“为了共同的未来团结起来”。 |
| A spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said the U.N. chief urged "constructive dialogue" and |
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联合国秘书长潘基文的一名发言人表示，潘基文敦促进行更多“有建设性的对话”， |
| urged all sides to "avoid any steps that could be seen as provocative and derail the dialogue." |
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敦促各方“避免采取被认为是挑衅性的，扰乱对话的举措”。 |
| The spokesman said the advisory opinion would be forwarded to the General Assembly, |
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这名发言人表示，顾问性的建议将递交联合国大会， |
| which would "determine how to proceed on this matter." |
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以便于其决定“怎样着手处理该问题”。 |
| Kosovo was placed under U.N. supervision in 1999, following a 78-day NATO bombing campaign that ended a two-year war |
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1999 年，北约对科索沃进行了78 天的轰炸，终止了塞尔维亚和科索沃达尔巴尼亚人长达两年的战争， |
| between Serbia and the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo, which was then a Serbian province. |
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当时阿尔巴尼亚还是塞尔维亚的一个省份。自那时起，科索沃已经处于联合国的监控下。 |
