Ambassador Li Song remarks on nuclear submarine cooperation of AUKUS

李松大使评美英澳核潜艇合作

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China Military Online
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Huang Panyue
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2021-10-14 19:22:33

日内瓦,10月14日 -- 10月13日,中国常驻联合国日内瓦办事处和瑞士其他国际组织代表团以视频会议方式举行记者会。

GENEVA, Oct. 14 -- The Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland hosted a press conference via video link on October 13.

期间,中国裁军大使李松就美国、英国、澳大利亚建立“三边安全伙伴关系”(AUKUS)等问题回答记者提问。

Chinese Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs Li Song answered questions on issues concerning the establishment of the alliance AUKUS among the US, Britain, and Australia.

当被问及中方对美、英、澳三国宣布建立AUKUS,并将据此帮助澳建立一支核动力潜艇舰队的看法时,李松大使表示,这一合作是美英澳三国在国际防扩散领域发挥所谓“领导力”的最糟糕体现。

When asked about the remarks on the establishment of AUKUS and their move to help Australia obtain nuclear-powered submarines, Amb. Li said that AUKUS is an awkward example set by the US, Britain and Australia in their so-called "leadership" in the international non-proliferation work.

AUKUS是冷战思维和狭隘地缘政治观念的产物,三国开展核潜艇合作堪称“教科书级”核扩散案例,践踏《不扩散核武器条约》(NPT)精神,对条约有关规定构成严峻挑战。

AUKUS is an outcome of the Cold War mentality and narrow geopolitics. The nuclear submarine cooperation among the three countries can be regarded as a textbook-level nuclear proliferation case, which goes against the spirit of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and also poses a severe challenge to relevant provisions.

作为NPT存约国,美英帮助澳大利亚这一无核武器国家打造核潜艇舰队,涉及包括数以吨计武器级高浓缩铀在内的敏感核材料、技术和设备转让,对NPT而言史无前例。国际原子能机构针对无核武器国家的全面保障监督也从未适用于这样的合作。三国核潜艇合作是“火”,国际监督是“纸”,当前,纸已经包不住火。"

As depositary states of the NPT, the US and Britain are to help Australia, a non-nuclear-weapon state, to develop nuclear-powered submarines, including the sensitive nuclear materials such as tons of weapon-grade enriched Uranium, and transfer of relevant technologies and equipment. Such cooperation has never happened in the history of the NPT. The comprehensive safeguard mechanism for non-nuclear-weapon states by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has never been applicable to such cooperation.

除核扩散风险外,AUKUS还将冲击南太平洋和东南亚无核武器区,刺激地区军备竞赛,破坏地区团结合作,影响地区和平稳定。

In addition to nuclear proliferation risks, AUKUS will lead to a wider range of impacts to regional nuclear-weapon-free zones in South Pacific and Southeast Asia, intensify regional arms race, undermine regional unity and cooperation, as well as the regional peace and stability.

亚太地区不欢迎核扩散。最近外国核潜艇在南海发生的事故进一步说明,不远万里游弋到此的外国核潜艇只会兴风作浪、惹是生非,不会受到本地区国家和人民的欢迎。

Nuclear proliferation is not welcomed in Asian Pacific. Amb. Li also noted that the recent incident of a foreign nuclear submarine in the South China Sea further indicated that those submarines which traveled all the way across the globe can only bring trouble to our region and will not be well accepted by regional countries and peoples.

 

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