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Bush: NATO, EU Should Build Partnerships¹ With Russia
Deborah Tate
Warsaw
15 Jun 2001 09:44 UTC

President Bush has called for extending NATO deeper into eastern Europe, arguing that Russia has nothing to fear from an expansion of the western military 1)alliance. Mr. Bush made his comments in Warsaw, Poland on the eve of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In the 2)keynote speech of his European trip, Mr. Bush said he believes NATO membership should be open to all of Europe's 3)democracies that are ready to share the responsibilities of the alliance. "All of Europe's new democracies, from the Baltics to the Black Sea and all that lie between, should have the same chance for security and freedom and the same chance to join the institutions of Europe as Europe's old democracies have," he said.
But Russia has made clear it is against NATO 4)expansion, especially if it includes the Baltic states.
In a speech at Warsaw University, Mr. Bush said Russia need not be concerned. He says he will 5)underscore the point when he meets with Mr. Putin Saturday in Slovenia. "I will express to President Putin that Russia is part of Europe and therefore does not need a 6)buffer zone of insecure states separating it from Europe," he said. "NATO, even as it grows, is no enemy of Russia.
Mr. Bush said the unified², peaceful and free Europe he 7)envisions must be open to Russia. He looked forward to the day when that country is fully³ reformed, fully democratic and closely bound to the rest of Europe. He called on NATO and the European Union to build partnerships with Russia.
Mr. Bush also said he would use his meeting with Mr. Putin to make the case that it is time to move beyond Cold War 8)doctrines.
The President wants to step back from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow for the establishment of a missile defense⁴. He argues such a system is necessary to defend against potential attack from so-called 9)rogue nations like Iran and North Korea.
But Moscow 10)vehemently opposes the plan on grounds it would 11)undermine arms control.
European allies are also 12)skeptical. But the proposal did receive support from Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski at a joint⁵ news conference earlier in the day. The Polish leader spoke⁶ through a translater. "It may turn out that the new security systems are not 13)controversial at all, and that they would not constitute any problems for us, but would rather reinforce our feeling of security," he said.
Late Friday Mr. Bush attended a state dinner at the Presidential Palace.

(1) alliance[E5laIEns]n.联盟, 联合
(2) keynote[5ki:nEJt]n.基调
(3) democracy[dI5mRkrEsI]n.民主政治, 民主主义
(4) expansion[Ik5spAnF(E)n]n.扩充, 开展, 膨胀
(5) underscore[ 9QndE`skR:(r) ]vt.划线于...下, 强调n.底线
(6) buffer[5bQfE(r)]n.缓冲器
(7) envision[In`vIVLn]vt.想象, 预想
(8) doctrine[5dRktrIn]n.教条, 学说
(9) rogue[rEJ^]n.流氓, 无赖vt.欺诈vi.流浪, 耍无赖
(10) vehemently adv.激烈地, 暴烈地
(11) undermine[QndE5maIn]v.破坏
(12) skeptical[5skeptIk(E)l]adj.怀疑性的,好怀疑的
(13) controversial[kRntrE5v:F(E)l]adj.争论的, 争议的

 

1 partnerships   

n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 )；合伙人身份；合作关系

参考例句：

• Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句

2 unified   

(unify 的过去式和过去分词)； 统一的； 统一标准的； 一元化的

参考例句：

• The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
• The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。

3 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

4 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

5 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

6 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。