印度总理辛格率代表团赴海牙，出席11月8日召开的第五届“印度-欧盟峰会”，这次会议对促进印欧关系具有重大意义。外电报道如下：Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be leading a high-powered delegation¹ to The Hague November 8 for the fifth annual India-European Union summit which is being viewed as a watershed² in relations between the two sides, India's foreign ministry³ said Friday.

The summit will endorse⁴ the EU's proposal to upgrade its relationship with India to a strategic partnership⁵. The EU has a similar partnership with five other nations - US, Canada, Russia, Japan and China.

Watershed表示“分水岭，转折点”，例如：A watershed in modern American history, a time that . . . forever changed American social attitudes（现代美国历史的转折点，一个…永远改变了美国社会观念的时刻）。