据拉格妮尔德·西古尔达多蒂尔报道，下周美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥即将访问冰岛，届时冰岛计划与美方探讨加强双边合作，其中也包括防务领域的合作。就在一个月前，美国刚与邻国格陵兰岛达成了安全协议。
By Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir Iceland plans to discuss closer cooperation with the US, including on defense, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives for a visit next week. That’s after the US struck a security deal over neighboring Greenland just last month.
冰岛外交部长索尔格杜尔·卡特琳·贡纳斯多蒂尔周五在接受采访时说道：“当前存在诸多安全威胁，因此强化与盟友的团结至关重要。”
“There are threats out there which make it important that we strengthen our solidarity,” Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir said in an interview on Friday.
她补充道：“我们希望能在经贸合作、能源合作，尤其是防务与安全领域取得进展。马尔科·鲁比奥的到访具有极其重要的意义。”美国国务院周四也透露，鲁比奥访冰期间将重点探讨“经济与安全领域的协作事宜”。
“Hopefully we can push through on business cooperation, energy cooperation and — not the least of which — defense and security,” she said. “It’s extremely important that Marco Rubio is coming to Iceland.”The State Department said on Thursday that Rubio would discuss “economic and security collaboration” while in Iceland.
冰岛虽为北大西洋公约组织的创始成员国，但本国并无常备军队，也没有外国军队长期驻扎。直到2006年，美国在凯夫拉维克还设有军事基地。
Although Iceland is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it has no army of its own and no troops are permanently stationed in the country. The US had a military base at Keflavik until 2006.
贡纳斯多蒂尔表示：“我们将继续充当北约在北方地区的‘耳目’。”
“We will continue to be the eyes and ears of the alliance here in the north,” Gunnarsdóttir said.