北约总部（NATO Headquarters）
比利时布鲁塞尔（Brussels）
欧洲中部夏令时间晚9:28
总统：晚上好。在介绍今天的会议前，我想先简单谈谈目前我们在国内抗击COVID-19新冠疫情的情况。
我们美国已经取得巨大进展。国内很多地区正在恢复正常。我们的经济增长居世界前列。病例和死亡记录正大幅度下降。但是仍然有太多的人失去生命。
过去7天，我们每天平均仍有370人死亡——370人死亡，大大低于危机高峰时期，但仍然令人悲不自胜。我们看到一个触目惊心的数字：美国几乎有600,000人因COVID-19新冠疫情失去生命。
我向所有失去亲人的人表示慰唁。我知道这个黑洞正在吞噬你们。失去自己的骨肉至亲，你们心如刀割。
所以，我继续对美国说：你们如果还没有接种疫苗，应该考虑接种。尽快接种疫苗。我们有大量的疫苗，大量的接种点。为了战胜这个病毒，我们还需要付出更多的努力。现在不是可以懈怠的时候。所以，恳请——恳请尽快接种疫苗。我们已经承受了太多的痛苦。实在令人痛心疾首。
诸位，我知道现在刚过9:30，布鲁塞尔时间——晚上9:30，我仍然身在北约 。你们都为此感到很兴奋。我知道。（笑声）
但是最近我有机会与几位领导人会晤。我已经与其他领导人相互通话。在这里，这是极其富有成效的一天。
我刚刚结束了与土耳其总统埃尔多安（Erdoğan）的会晤。我们举行了积极和富有成效的会谈，很大程度上是一对一的会见。我们详细讨论了如何着手处理一系列——一系列问题。我们两国有各种重要的议题。双方的团队正继续我们的讨论。我相信我们土耳其和美国双方会取得实际进展。
现在，我要感谢秘书长斯滕尔伯格（Stoltenberg）今天主持的北约峰会获得极大的成功。
我今天很荣幸在30个国家出席的会议上第一个发言。我强调我们正面临世纪罕见的全球卫生危机。与此同时，作为我们联盟根基的民主价值观正受到来自内部和外部日益沉重的压力。俄罗斯和中国都试图插入楔子，破坏我们跨大西洋的团结。我们看到恶意网络活动日益猖獗。
我们的联盟根深叶茂，我们可以依靠——我们的集体安全和我们的共同繁荣可以在这个基础上继续得到巩固。
我十分明确地强调，美国对北约第5条款（Article 5）的承诺坚如磐石，永不动摇。这项庄严的承诺不可亵渎。
北约——北约休戚与共。我们曾以此抗击了以往的一个又一个威胁。这也是我们应对未来挑战——众多挑战最强大的力量来源。
每一个人——今天到会的每一个人，坦率地说，都对美国的回归表示赞赏。
我们谈到俄罗斯的侵略行为对北约和我们的集体安全构成了威胁。
为此，我在这次峰会前与布加勒斯特9国（Bucharest 9）——东部侧翼的盟国会晤。今天我还与波罗的海（Baltic）国家：爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和立陶宛举行会晤。
我向我们的盟国表示，我将向——我将向总统普京（Putin）表达这样的立场：我不希望与俄罗斯发生冲突，但一旦俄罗斯继续从事有害活动，我们必将做出反应。我们不会放弃捍卫跨大西洋联盟的使命，也不会背离对民主价值观的坚定信念。
作为盟国，我们还强调我们继续支持乌克兰主权和领土完整。
我们一致同意就核威慑、军备控制和战略稳定进行密切磋商。
出席会议的领导人在阿富汗问题上达成了强烈的共识。我们的军队正在撤回国内，但是我们一致表示，我们对阿富汗人民的外交、经济和人道主义承诺恪守不渝，我们对阿富汗国防和安全部队（Afghan National Defense and Security Forces）的支持坚定不移。
我欢迎我们各盟国和伙伴认识到反恐怖主义——反恐怖主义行动必须继续，保证阿富汗永远不再成为——对我们各国发动袭击的庇护所，即使我们已在中东（Middle East）和非洲挫败了恐怖主义网络。
我感到十分高兴的是，我们作为一个联盟采纳了具有深远意义的计划，要求保证北约可以抗击我们今天和未来的各种挑战，与以往不同的挑战——北约的2030纲领——我们一致同意为执行这个纲领提供资源。
北约上一次制定战略计划的时间是2010年，当时俄罗斯被认为是一名伙伴，而中国甚至还未被提到。
我们谈到中国的活动对我们今天的集体安全构成了长期的系统性挑战。
我们一致同意为提高我们世界各地关键基础设施的适应能力付出更多的努力，其中包括可靠的通讯提供方、供应链和能源网络。
我们一致同意促进与我们在印度-太平洋（Indo-Pacific）的民主伙伴的合作，应对那里存在的挑战。
我们还就新的网络防御政策——北约7年来的第一次——改善集体防御的能力，防范国家和非国家行为方对我们的网络和我们关键基础设施构成的威胁。
我们通过了气候安全行动计划（Climate Security Action Plan）——几年前人们曾认为我们永远不会采取这样的行动——要求减少北约设施的排放，应对气候变化造成的安全危险，同时高度——严阵以待遏制和防范各种威胁。
最后，我们一致同意，最重要的共同使命之一是重振和加强我们各民主政体坚韧不拔的力量，我们必须向全世界和我们各国人民证明，民主仍然能够以压倒的力量战胜我们时代的各种挑战，切实满足我们各国人民的需要。
我们必须根除销蚀我们实力的腐败；防范为获得政治利益散布仇恨和分裂的方面——虚假的民粹主义；为促进维护和捍卫我们宝贵的民主价值观以及维护新闻自由和司法独立的机构的发展壮大进行投资。上述诸项都有助于推进我们的纲领。
我将以此证明民主和我们的联盟仍然能够以压倒的力量战胜我们时代的各种挑战并切实满足我们各国人民的需要。
从现在开始展望今后25年，这一切都取决于我们能否蹈厉奋发，战胜挑战，因为在日益复杂的世界上，众多的独裁者正设法利用这些问题妄图以超越民主政体的速度以求一逞。我们一致强调，我们会证明他们的荒谬无稽。
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欲查看原稿内容:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/06/14/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference-3/

Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference
NATO Headquarters
Brussels, Belgium
9:28 P.M. CEST
THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening.  Before I turn to today’s meetings, I want to say a short word about our ongoing fight against COVID-19 at home.
We’ve made enormous progress in the United States.  Much of the country is returning to normal, and our economic growth is leading the world, and the number of cases and deaths are dropping dramatically.  But there’s still too many lives being lost.
We’re still averaging, in the last seven days, loss of 370 deaths per day — 370 deaths.  That’s significantly lower than at the peak of this crisis, but it’s still a real tragedy.  We’re approaching a sad milestone: almost 600,000 lost lives because of COVID-19 in America.
My heart goes out to all those who have lost a loved one.  I know that black hole that seems to consume you, that fills up your chest when you lose someone that’s close to you that you adored.
That’s why I continue to say to America: If you’ve not been vaccinated, get vaccinated.  Get vaccinated as soon as possible.  We have plenty of vaccination, plenty of sites.  We have more work to do to beat this virus, and now is not the time to let our guard down.  So, please — please get vaccinated as soon as possible.  We’ve had enough pain.  Enough pain.
Folks, I know it’s after 9:30, Brussels time — 9:30 p.m., and I’m still at NATO.  You’re all excited about that.  I know.  (Laughter.)
But I’ve had a chance to meet with several leaders recently, and I’ve had calls with others.  It’s been an incredibly productive day here.
I just finished a meeting with President Erdoğan of Turkey.  We had a positive and productive meeting, much of it one-on-one.  We had detailed discussions on how to proceed on a number of — a number of issues.  Our two countries have big agendas.  Our teams are going to continue our discussions, and I’m confident we’ll make real progress with Turkey and the United States.
But now I want to thank Secretary General Stoltenberg for leading a very successful NATO Summit today.
I had the honor of leading off the discussion today among the 30 nations, and I pointed out that we’re facing a once-in-a-century global health crisis.  At the same time, the democratic values that undergird our Alliance are under increasing pressure both internally and externally.  Russia and China are both seeking to drive a wedge in our transatlantic solidarity.  We’re seeing an increase in malicious cyber activity.
But that our Alliance is the strong foundation on which we can — our collective security and our shared prosperity can continue to be built.
And I made a point to make clear that the U.S. commitment to Article 5 of the NATO Treaty is rock solid and unshakable.  It’s a sacred commitment.
NATO — NATO stands together.  That’s how we’ve met every other threat in the past.  It’s our greatest strength as we meet our challenges of the future — and there are many.
And everyone — everyone in that room today understood the shared appreciation, quite frankly, that America is back.
We talked about Russia’s aggressive acts that pose a threat to NATO and to our collective security.
That’s why I met with the Bucharest 9 — the eastern flank allies — in advance of this summit.  And today I also met with the leaders of the three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
I shared with our Allies that I will convey to Pre- — what I’ll convey to President Putin: that I’m not looking for conflict with Russia, but that we will respond if Russia continues its harmful activities and that we will not fail to defend the Transatlantic Alliance or stand up for democratic values.
As Allies, we also affirmed our continued support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
We agreed to keep consulting closely on nuclear deterrence, arms control, and strategic stability.
And there was a strong consensus among the leaders in that meeting on Afghanistan.  Our troops are coming home, but we agreed that our diplomatic, economic, and humanitarian commitment to the Afghan people and our support for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces will endure.
And I welcomed our Allies and partners to recognize that counterterrorism — that counterterrorism efforts must continue to ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a ca- — a safe haven for attacks on our countries, even as we take on terrorist networks in the Middle East and Africa.
And I’m deeply gratified that, as an Alliance, we adopted a far-reaching plan to make sure that NATO can meet the challenges that we face today and in the future, not yesterday — the NATO 2030 agenda — and that we agreed to fully resource that agenda.
The last time NATO put together a strategic plan was back in 2010, when Russia was considered a partner and China wasn’t even mentioned.
We talked about the long-term systemic challenges that China’s activities pose to our collective security today.
We agreed to do more to enhance the resilience of our critical infrastructure around the world, including trusted telecommunications providers, supply chains, and energy networks.
We agreed to enhance our cooperation with our democratic partners in the Indo-Pacific to meet challenges that exist there.
We also endorsed a new cyber defense policy — NATO’s first in the past seven years — to improve the collective ability to defend against counter threats from state and nonstate actors against our networks and our critical infrastructure.
And we adopted a Climate Security Action Plan — which, several years ago, people thought we would never would do — for reducing emissions from NATO installations and adapting to the security risk of climate change while keeping a sharp — very sharp on our ability to deter and defend against threats.
And finally, we agreed that among the most important shared missions is renewing and strengthening the resilience of our democracies by pointing out we have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people.
We have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength; guard against those who would stoke hatred and division for political gain — this phony populism; invest in strengthening the institutions that underpin and safeguard our cherished democratic values, as well as protecting the free press and independent judiciaries.  All of those run the agenda.
That’s how I’ll prove that democracy and that our Alliance can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs and the needs of our people.
This is going to be looked at 25 years from now as whether or not we stepped up to the challenge, because there’s a lot of — a lot of autocracies that are counting on them being able to move more rapidly and successfully in an ever-complicated world than democracies can.  We all concluded we’re going to prove them wrong.