Rewrite each sentence in indirect speech, beginning as shown and translate them in the written form.

Direct speech:

She said to somebody: " Progressive people all over the world protest against terrorism "

Indirect speech: She said that progressive people all over the world protest against terrorism.

1. A government source said: “The prime minister’s objective here is to get the US companies to cooperate with us more, to make sure that our intelligence agencies get the information they need to keep us safe.”

2. Still, we continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today.- B. Obama

3. Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.- B. Obama

4. National Security Council spokesman Alistair Baskey told Fox News. “We will continue to take action to disrupt the continuing, imminent threats to the United State and our citizens.”

5. He said: " Our resolve to prosecute terrorist elements and any other person who undertake the active use of children in hostilities or armed conflicts, or engage in other unlawful acts contrary to our domestic laws and international obligations on protection of children and young persons remain unshakeable and irreversible. No matter how long it takes, justice will certainly be done in due course."

6. “An arrest warrant alone won’t stop a rebel leader like Sheka from committing atrocities – Congo’s authorities need to bring him to justice, ” said Ida Sawyer, senior Congo researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The army and UN peacekeepers should increase their efforts to arrest him before more civilians suffer.”

7. “Attacks on the West, in particular, are high on their list and increasing in priority, ” said Mr. Vickers, the under secretary of defense for intelligence.

8. “This was a long-running investigation into a cell, a terrorist nucleus, ” Mr. De Qué vy said. “To avoid the things that happened in Paris, they intervened more quickly.”

9. “The supposed parallels included the fact that the suspects were brothers, that they reportedly were influenced by the lectures and writings of Anwar al-Awlaki, that they were ‘homegrown’ terrorists, and that they attacked civilians in a Western city, ” the defense wrote in its request to delay the trial by one month.

Task: Present the latest news in the indirect speech and answer your group mate’s questions.

MODULE 1

FOREIGN POLICY

FILE 6 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR ROLE. UNITED NATIONS.