1、此资料由网络收集而来，如有侵权请告知上传者立即删除。资料共分享，我们负责传递知识。奥巴马总统在联合国埃博拉疫情防控高级别会议英语演讲稿Mr. Secretary-General, thank you for bringing us together today to address an urgent threatto the people of West Africa, but also a potential threat to the world. Dr. Chan, heads of stateand government, especially our African partner
2、s, ladies and gentlemen: As we gather heretoday, the people of Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea are in crisis. As Secretary-General Banand Dr. Chan have already indicated, the Ebola virus is spreading at alarming speed.Thousands of men, women and children have died. Thousands more are infected. I
3、funchecked, this epidemic could kill hundreds of thousands of people in the coming months.Hundreds of thousands.Ebola is a horrific disease. It’s wiping out entire families. It has turned simple acts of love andcomfort and kindness - like holding a sick friend’s hand, or embracing a dyin
4、g child - intopotentially fatal acts. If ever there were a public health emergency deserving an urgent,strong and coordinated international response, this is it.But this is also more than a health crisis. This is a growing threat to regional and globalsecurity. In Liberia, in Guinea, in Sierra Leone
5、, public health systems have collapsed. Economicgrowth is slowing dramatically. If this epidemic is not stopped, this disease could cause ahumanitarian catastrophe across the region. And in an era where regional crises can quicklybecome global threats, stopping Ebola is in the interest of all of us.
6、The courageous men and women fighting on the front lines of this disease have told us whatthey need. They need more beds, they need more supplies, they need more health workers, andthey need all of this as fast as possible. Right now, patients are being left to die in the streetsbecause there’
7、s nowhere to put them and there’s nobody to help them. One health worker inSierra Leone compared fighting this outbreak to “;fighting a forest fire with spray bottles.; Butwith our help, they can put out the blaze.Last week, I visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is mo
8、unting thelargest international response in its history. I said that the world could count on America tolead, and that we will provide the capabilities that only we have, and mobilize the world the waywe have done in the past in crises of similar magnitude. And I announced that, in additionto the ci
9、vilian response, the United States would establish a military command in Liberia tosupport civilian efforts across the region.Today, that command is up and it is running. Our commander is on the ground in Monrovia,and our teams are working as fast as they can to move in personnel, equipment and supp
10、lies.We’re working with Senegal to stand up an air bridge to get health workers and medicalsupplies into West Africa faster. We’re setting up a field hospital, which will be staffed bypersonnel from the U.S. Public Health Service, and a training facility, where we’re gettingready t
11、o train thousands of health workers from around the world. We’re distributing suppliesand information kits to hundreds of thousands of families so they can better protectthemselves. And together with our partners, we’ll quickly build new treatment units acrossLiberia, Guinea and Sierra L
12、eone, where thousands will be able to receive care.Meanwhile, in just the past week, more countries and organizations have stepped up theirefforts - and so has the United Nations. Mr. Secretary-General, the new UN Mission for EbolaEmergency Response that you announced last week will bring all of the
13、 U.N.’s resources tobear in fighting the epidemic. We thank you for your leadership.So this is all progress, and it is encouraging. But I want us to be clear: We are not moving fastenough. We are not doing enough. Right now, everybody has the best of intentions, but peopleare not putting in th
14、e kinds of resources that are necessary to put a stop to this epidemic.There is still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be. We know fromexperience that the response to an outbreak of this magnitude has to be fast and it has to besustained. It’s a marathon, but you hav
15、e to run it like a sprint. And that’s only possible ifeverybody chips in, if every nation and every organization takes this seriously. Everybody herehas to do more.International organizations have to move faster, and cut through red tape and mobilize partnerson the ground as only they can. Mor
16、e nations need to contribute critical assets andcapabilities - whether it is air transport, or medical evacuation, or health care workers, orequipment, or treatment. More foundations can tap into the networks of support that theyhave, to raise funds and awareness. More businesses, especially those who already have apresence in the region, can quickly provide their own expertise and resources, from access tocritical supply chains to telecommunications. And more
