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华盛顿特区
2022年3月11日
罗斯福厅
美东标准时间上午10时31分
总统：上午好。抱歉让你们久等了。我刚同乌克兰总统泽连斯基交谈了一段时间。
我告诉他，正如我们每次通话时我都会告诉他的，美国在乌克兰人民英勇奋战以保卫自己的国家时，同他们站在一起。他们正在这样做。
在普京继续发动凶残的进攻时，美国以及我们的盟友和合作伙伴继续步调一致地努力增强对普京施加的经济压力，并进一步让俄罗斯在国际舞台上处于孤立地位。
今天稍后，我们将同其他北约盟国和七国集团——加拿大、法国、德国、意大利、日本和英国——以及欧盟——共同宣布几项新举措，以孤立普京并进一步对他入侵乌克兰的行径追究责任。
今天，我想谈谈其中的几点。
首先，我们每个国家都将采取步骤取消俄罗斯的最惠国待遇。确立最惠国待遇指的是两个国家同意在可能做到的最惠条件下进行贸易——低关税、极少的贸易壁垒以及允许达到的最高的进口量。
在美国，我们称之为“永久性正常贸易关系”（PNTR），但这是一回事。取消俄罗斯的永久性正常贸易关系待遇将使俄罗斯更难以同美国进行商贸。而且同占全球经济一半以上的国家同步采取这一举措将使已在我们的制裁下受到重创的俄罗斯经济遭受又一次致命打击。
我要感谢佩洛西议长、（众议院共和党）领袖麦卡锡、（参议院民主党）领袖舒默和（参议院共和党）领袖麦康纳尔，以及参议员怀登（Wyden）和克拉波（Crapo），还有众议员尼尔（Neal）和布雷迪（Brady）在国会就这个问题发挥的跨党派领导作用。
我要特别感谢佩洛西议长，她一直大力倡导取消永久性正常贸易关系待遇，但同意暂缓在众议院采取行动，直到我能够协调好我们所有的关键盟友以保持步调一致。我们盟友的团结一致极其重要，正如你们所知，至少在我看来是这样。
在华盛顿有很多问题造成我们意见相左，但捍卫乌克兰的民主并惩治俄罗斯的侵略行径不应当成为其中之一。
整个自由世界都团结起来抗击普京。我们国内的两党正在引领前行。有了这种跨党派合作，我期待着签署取消永久性正常贸易关系的法案，并使之成为法律。再说明一下，大多数人称之为“最惠国”待遇。
我们还在进一步采取措施禁止进口俄罗斯经济的几大特色部门的产品，其中包括海产、伏特加酒和钻石。
而且我们还将继续孤立普京。七国集团将寻求取消俄罗斯从国际货币基金组织和世界银行等主要的多国机构贷款的能力。
普京是一名侵略者——就是侵略者。而且普京必须付出代价。
他不能发动一场威胁国际和平与稳定的根本基础的战争——而他正在这样做——随后还要求国际社会提供金融帮助。
七国集团还在对腐败的俄罗斯亿万富翁进一步施压。我们正在补充我们所针对的寡头及其家庭成员的名单。而且我们正在七国集团中增强协作，以针对并追缴他们的不义之财。
他们支持普京。他们盗取俄罗斯人民的财富。他们还寻求在我们各国藏匿他们的金钱。他们是存在于莫斯科的盗贼统治的一部分。而且他们必须承担受到这些制裁的痛苦。
我们在追查这些——他们价值数百万美元的豪华游艇和度假别墅的同时，还要让他们更难以购买在我们国家生产的高档产品。我们正在禁止向俄罗斯出口奢侈商品。这也是我们正在采取的最新步骤，但不是我们将要采取的最后步骤。
正如我在开始采取所有这些步骤时所言，我们将更沉重地打击普京，因为美国以及我们最亲密的盟友和合作伙伴正在步调一致地采取行动。
我们的所有制裁措施及出口管制正在合力碾压俄罗斯的经济。
卢布已经贬值一半以上。我获悉现在大约需要 200 卢布才能兑换 1 美元。莫斯科证券交易所已经关闭了整整两周，因为他们知道一旦恢复交易，就可能崩盘。
信用评级机构已经将俄罗斯政府降为“垃圾”级——其债券降为“垃圾”级。
撤离俄罗斯的企业和跨国公司的数目与日俱增。
我们还将继续与盟国和合作伙伴密切合作，确保这种密切合作继续下去，使乌克兰人民能够保卫自己的国家。
去年，美国向乌克兰提供了超过 10 亿美元的安全援助，包括反装甲和防空能力——用于摧毁坦克、飞机和直升机——每天都有新的物资运抵。
美国也在为我们的盟国和合作伙伴向乌克兰运送大量安全援助提供便利。
在人道主义援助方面，我们正在与联合国和人道主义组织密切合作，为因遭受暴力而流离失所的乌克兰人民提供援助。
我们正在提供——我们正在提供成千上万吨的人道主义物资——食物、水、药品——每天都在通过卡车和火车运送。
昨天，哈里斯副总统在波兰宣布为乌克兰追加 5300 万美元的人道主义援助。这使人道主义援助总额在短短两周内达到 1.07 亿美元。
我们与其他三十多个国家共同参与这项工作，这些国家正在提供数亿美元的援助。
昨晚，值得称赞的是，国会通过了一项两党共同支持的支出法案，其中包括向乌克兰人民提供136亿美元的追加援助。我期待立即签署该法案。
不过我也要申明：我们将确保乌克兰拥有抵御俄罗斯侵略军的武器。我们将——我们将提供资金、食物和援助来救助乌克兰人民。我将欢迎乌克兰难民。如果他们需要来美国，我们应该张开双臂欢迎他们。
我们将为乌克兰提供更多支持。我们将继续与我们的欧洲盟友站在一起，发出一个明确的信息：一个团结、奋起的北约将以其强大的力量不遗余力地保卫其成员的每一寸领土。
我们不会在乌克兰与俄罗斯开战。北约与俄罗斯之间的直接对抗将意味着第三次世界大战，我们必须努力防止。
但是，我们已经知道，普京永远不会在他对乌克兰发动的这场战争中获胜。
他想要不战而胜，统治乌克兰。他失败了。
他想要摧垮欧洲的决心。他失败了。
他想要削弱跨大西洋联盟。他失败了。
他想要分裂美国的民主体制，分化我们的立场。他失败了。
美国人民团结一致。全世界团结一致。我们与乌克兰人民站在一起。我们不会让独裁者和幻想做帝王的人左右世界的方向。
民主国家临危不惧，正在应对这一挑战，呼吁全世界站在和平与安全这一边。
我们正在展示我们的力量，我们不会动摇。
愿上帝保佑你们所有的人。愿上帝保佑乌克兰。愿上帝保佑我们的军队。
问：拜登总统，您手下的白宫官员曾经说过，俄罗斯可能会使用化学武器或制造假旗行动来使用化学武器。您有什么证据能够证明这一点？如果普京发动化学武器袭击，美国会做出军事回应吗？
总统：我不打算谈论情报。但如果俄罗斯使用化学武器，他们将付出沉重的代价。
美东标准时间上午 10时40分
欲查看原稿内容: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/11/remarks-by-president-biden-announcing-actions-to-continue-to-hold-russia-accountable/
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。

Remarks by President Biden Announcing Actions to Continue to Hold Russia Accountable
MARCH 11, 2022•SPEECHES AND REMARKS
Roosevelt Room

10:31 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning.  I’m sorry to keep you waiting.  I’ve just spoken for some time with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
I told him, as I have each and every time we’ve spoken, the United States stands with the people of Ukraine and their bravely — as they bravely fight to defend their country.  And they are doing that.
And as Putin continues his merciless assault, the United States and our Allies and partners continue to work in lockstep to ramp up the economic pressure on Putin and to further isolate Russia on the global stage.
Later today, together with other NATO Allies and the G7 — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom — as well as the European Union — we’re going to jointly announce several new steps to squeeze Putin and hold him more — even more accountable for his aggression against Ukraine.
And I want to speak to a few of those points today.
First, each of our nations is going to take steps to deny most-favored-nation status to Russia.  A most-favored-nation status designation means two countries have agreed to trade with each other under the best possible terms — low tariffs, few barriers to trade, and the highest possible imports allowed.
In the United States, we call this “permanent normal trade relations” — PNTR — but it’s the same thing.  Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States.  And doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions.
And I want to thank Speaker Pelosi, Leader McCarthy, Leader Schumer and McConnell, and Senators Wyden and Crapo, Representatives Neal and Brady for their bipartisan leadership on this in the Congress.
I would like to offer a special thanks to Speaker Pelosi
who has been a strong advocate for revoking PNTR and who agreed to hold off on that in the House until I could line up all of our key allies to keep us in complete unison.  Unity among our allies is critically important, as you all know, from my perspective, at least.
Many issues divide us in Washington, but standing for democracy in Ukraine, pushing [punishing] Russia’s aggression should not be one of those issues.
The free world is coming together to confront Putin.  Our two parties here at home are leading the way.  And with that bipartisan cooperation, I’m looking forward to signing into law the bill revoking PNTR — which is, again, most people think of it as “most-favored-nations” status.
We’re also taking a further step of banning imports of goods from several signature sectors of the Russian economy, including seafoods, vodka, and diamonds.
And we’re going to continue to squeeze Putin.  The G7 will seek to deny Russia the ability to borrow from leading multinational institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Putin is an aggressor — is the aggressor.  And Putin must pay the price.
He cannot pursue a war that threatens the very foundations — which he’s doing — the very foundations of international peace and stability and then ask for financial help from the international community.
The G7 is also stepping up pressure on corrupt Russian billionaires.  We’re adding new names to the list of oligarchs and their families that we’re targeting.  And we’re increasing coordination among the G7 countries to target and capture their ill-begotten gains.
They support Putin.  They steal from the Russian people.  And they seek to hide their money in our countries.  They’re part of a — that kleptocracy that exists in Moscow.  And they must share in the pain of these sanctions.
And while we’re going after these — their superyachts and their vacation homes worth hundreds of milli- — millions of dollars, we’re also going to make it harder for them to buy high-end products manufactured in our country.  We’re banning the export of luxu- — luxury goods to Russia.  They’re also the latest steps we’re taking, but they’re not the last steps we’re going to take.
And as I said at the beginning of all of these steps, we’re going to hit Putin harder because the United States and our closest Allies and partners are acting in unison.
The totality of our sanctions and export controls is crushing the Russian economy.
The ruble has lost more than half its value.  They tell me it takes about 200 rubles to equal 1 dollar these days.  The Moscow stock exchange has been closed for fully — for two weeks because they know the moment it opens, it will probably collapse.
Credit rating agencies has downgraded Russia’s government to “junk” status — its economy to “junk” status.
The list of businesses and international corporations leaving Russia is growing by the day.
We’re also continuing the close corporations [cooperation] with Allies and partners to make sure that the close cooperation we continue to have, the Ukrainian people are — are able to defend their own nation.
The United States has sent more than $1 billion in security assistance to Ukraine over the last year, including anti-armor and anti-air capabilities — taking out tanks and planes and helicopters — with new shipments arriving every day.
We, the United States, are also facilitating significant shipments of security assistance from our Allies and partners to Ukraine.
On the humanitarian front, we’re working closely with the U.N. and humanitarian organizations to support the people of Ukraine who have been displaced by the violence in Ukraine.
We’re providing — we’re providing tens of thousands of tons of human supplies — excuse me, humanitarian supplies — food, water, medicines — coming via truck and train every single day.
Yesterday in Poland, Vice President Harrins — Harris announced an additional $53 million in additional humanitarian support to Ukraine.  That brings the total humanitarian assistance to $107 million in just two weeks.
We’ve joined in this effort by more — with more than 30 other countries who are providing hundreds of millions more.
And last night, to their great credit, the Congress passed a bipartisan spending bill that included an additional $13.6 billion in new assistance to the Ukrainian people.  And I look forward to signing that immediately.
And I also want to be clear though: We will make sure Ukraine has weapons to defend against an invading Russian force.  We will — we will send money and food and aid to save the Ukrainian people.  And I will welcome the Ukrainian refugees.  We should welcome them here with open arms if they need access.
And we’re going to provide more support for Ukraine.  We’re going to continue to stand together with our Allies in Europe and send an unmistakable message: We will defend every single inch of NATO territory with the full might of a united and galvanized NATO.
We will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine.  Direct confrontation between NATO and Russia is World War Three, something we must strive to prevent.
But we already know Putin’s war against Ukraine will never be a victory.
He hoped to dominate Ukraine without a fight.  He failed.
He hoped to fracture European resolve.  He failed.
He hoped to weaken the transatlantic alliance.  He failed.
He hoped to split apart American democracies, in terms of our positions.  He failed.
The American people are united.  The world is united.  And we stand with the people of Ukraine.  We will not let autocrats and would-be emperors dictate the direction of the world.
Democracies are rising to meet this moment, rallying the world to the side of peace and the side of security.
We’re showing our strength, and we will not falter.
May God bless all of you.  God bless Ukraine.  And God bless our troops.
Q    President Biden, your White House has said that Russia may use chemical weapons or create a false-flag operation to use them.  What evidence have you seen showing that?  And would the U.S. have a military response if Putin does launch a chemical weapons attack?
THE PRESIDENT:  I’m not going to speak about the intelligence.  But Russia would pay a severe price if they used chemical weapons.
10:40 A.M. EST