12月17日VOA聽力：助理國務卿努蘭表現北約支撐烏克蘭
In the estimation of NATO Deputy Secretary GeneralAlexander Vershbow, today's security environmentis complex and fast moving,increasingly moredangerous and less predictable than it has been ina long, long time.
“We face threats from state and from non-stateactors; from the south and from the east;fromconventional military forces and from unconventional terrorist, cyber or hybrid attacks,”hesaid in his opening remarks at the recent Berlin Security Conference.
One of the threats facing the Euro Atlantic community today is Russia, and its aggressiveposture in Ukraine.
In a blatant breach of international conventions, Moscow attempted to illegally annex Ukraine'sCrimean Peninsula,and sent heavy weapons and troops in support of militant separatistsstaging an uprising in eastern Ukraine.
The Euro Atlantic community stands with Ukraine, said Assistant Secretary for European andEurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland.
“We have given political, economic, and security support to Ukraine;we imposed successivelyharsh rounds of sanctions to bring Russia to the negotiating table;and we supported adiplomatic resolution to the conflict via the Minsk agreements and the Normandy talks led byGermany and France,” she said.
“Now we have to help Ukraine see it through.
We must maintain pressure on Russia and its separatist proxies to complete the unfinishedcommitments of Minsk,including:the return of all hostages; full humanitarian access for UNagencies, NGOs, and government relief agencies;free and fair elections in Donbas under theUkrainian constitution and observed by ODIHR;the removal of all Russian forces and weapons;and the return of the international border to Ukraine.
Sanctions are an essential tool for holding Russia accountable:they must be rolled over untilMinsk is fully implemented.
And we must keep our Crimea-related sanctions in place until Russia returns the peninsula toUkraine,” said Assistant Secretary Nuland.
That said, Ukraine's government must clean up its own house, starting with reforming thejustice system, cleaning up wide-spread corruption at every level, and stabilizing the economyand breaking the hold of corrupt state enterprises and oligarchs.
“Ukraine's own people are demanding a faster pace of change,” said Assistant SecretaryNuland; “The best antidote to Russian aggression and malign influence is Ukraine's successas a democratic, prosperous, European state.”
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