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2023年3月13日
 
关于AUKUS的领导人联合声明
2021年9月，澳大利亚、英国和美国宣布建立新的澳英美三边安全伙伴关系AUKUS，旨在促进一个自由和开放的印太地区，并且使它安全和稳定。
AUKUS的第一个主要行动计划是我们的历史性三边决定，支持澳大利亚获得装备常规武器的核动力潜艇（SSN）。今天，我们宣布实现这一关键能力的步骤。
我们将共同完成SSN-AUKUS——由三边研发、基于英国下一代潜艇设计的核动力潜艇，该设计吸收三国的技术，包括美国的最先进潜艇技术。澳大利亚和英国将把SSN-AUKUS用作他们的未来潜艇。澳大利亚和英国将在本十年内在各自国内船厂开始建造SSN-AUKUS。
为了以最早时间向澳大利亚交付装备常规武器的核动力潜艇，我们计划以下述分阶段方式，根据各国相互作出的承诺推进每一阶段：
这一计划旨在支持澳大利亚发展基础设施、技术能力以及工业和人力资本，以生产、维护、操作和管理装备常规武器的核动力潜艇的主权舰队。澳大利亚对负责任地管理海军核动力技术给予完全承诺。
在2021年9月宣布AUKUS三边安全伙伴关系时，我们承诺确立核不扩散的最高标准。我们今天宣布的计划兑现了这一承诺，并且体现出我们长期以来对全球核不扩散制度的领导作用和尊重。我们继续与国际原子能机构（International Atomic Energy Agency）磋商，以制定出一项不扩散方针，为获取核动力潜艇能力设立最强有力的先例。
我们的计划将提高所有三国在今后几十年内生产和维持可互操作的核动力潜艇的工业能力，扩大我们在印太地区水下的个体和集体存在，并为全球安全与稳定作出贡献。通过这些成果，AUKUS体现了一个原则，即基于合作关系的共同行动，能够使各方受益。
实施AUKUS还需要强有力的、新颖的信息共享和技术合作。我们的国家致力于进一步的三边合作，从而加强我们的联合能力，增进我们的信息和技术共享，整合我们的产业基地和供应链，同时加强每个国家的安全体制。
一个多世纪以来，我们三国与其他盟友和伙伴肩并肩，帮助维持世界和平、稳定和繁荣，包括在印太地区。我们相信要有一个保护自由、尊重人权、法治、主权国家独立和以基于规则的国际秩序的世界。我们今天宣布的步骤将有助于在未来几十年推进这些互利共赢的目标。
 
欲查看原稿内容: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/13/joint-leaders-statement-on-aukus-2/
本译文仅供参考，只有英文原稿才可以被视为权威资料来源。

MARCH 13, 2023
 
In September 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced AUKUS – a new security partnership that will promote a free and open Indo-Pacific that is secure and stable.
 
The first major initiative of AUKUS was our historic trilateral decision to support Australia acquiring conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs). Today, we announce our pathway to achieve this critical capability.
 
Together we will deliver SSN-AUKUS – a trilaterally-developed submarine based on the United Kingdom’s next-generation design that incorporates technology from all three nations, including cutting edge U.S. submarine technologies. Australia and the United Kingdom will operate SSN-AUKUS as their submarine of the future. Australia and the United Kingdom will begin work to build SSN-AUKUS in their domestic shipyards within this decade. 
 
In order to deliver conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines to Australia at the earliest possible date, we intend to pursue the following phased approach, moving through each phase based on mutual commitments from each nation:
 
Beginning in 2023, Australian military and civilian personnel will embed with the U.S. Navy, the Royal Navy, and in the United States and United Kingdom submarine industrial bases to accelerate the training of Australian personnel. The United States plans to increase SSN port visits to Australia beginning in 2023, with Australian sailors joining U.S. crews for training and development; the United Kingdom will increase visits to Australia beginning in 2026.
 
As early as 2027, the United States and United Kingdom plan to begin forward rotations of SSNs to Australia to accelerate the development of the Australian naval personnel, workforce, infrastructure and regulatory system necessary to establish a sovereign SSN capability.
 
Starting in the early 2030s, pending Congressional approval, the United States intends to sell Australia three Virginia class submarines, with the potential to sell up to two more if needed. This step will systematically grow Australia’s sovereign SSN capability and support capacity. 
 
In the late 2030s, the United Kingdom will deliver its first SSN-AUKUS to the Royal Navy. Australia will deliver the first SSN-AUKUS built in Australia to the Royal Australian Navy in the early 2040s.
 
This plan is designed to support Australia’s development of the infrastructure, technical capabilities, industry and human capital necessary to produce, maintain, operate, and steward a sovereign fleet of conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines. Australia is fully committed to responsible stewardship of naval nuclear propulsion technology.
 
When we announced the AUKUS partnership in September 2021, we committed to set the highest nuclear non-proliferation standard. The plan we announce today delivers on this commitment and reflects our longstanding leadership in, and respect for, the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. We continue to consult with the International Atomic Energy Agency to develop a non-proliferation approach that sets the strongest precedent for the acquisition of a nuclear-powered submarine capability.
 
Our plan elevates all three nations’ industrial capacity to produce and sustain interoperable nuclear-powered submarines for decades to come, expands our individual and collective undersea presence in the Indo-Pacific, and contributes to global security and stability. In these outcomes, AUKUS reflects the principle that shared action, taken in partnership, can benefit all.
 
Implementing AUKUS will also require robust, novel information sharing and technology cooperation. Our nations are committed to further trilateral collaboration that will strengthen our joint capabilities, enhance our information and technology sharing, and integrate our industrial bases and supply chains while strengthening the security regimes of each nation.
 
For more than a century, our three nations have stood shoulder to shoulder, along with other allies and partners, to help sustain peace, stability, and prosperity around the world, including in the Indo-Pacific. We believe in a world that protects freedom and respects human rights, the rule of law, the independence of sovereign states, and the rules-based international order. The steps we are announcing today will help us to advance these mutually beneficial objectives in the decades to come.
 
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