维尔纽斯，10月6日——立陶宛总理明道加斯·辛凯维丘斯周二表示，如果华盛顿同意在该国建立永久美军基地，立陶宛愿意承担相关费用。
VILNIUS, Oct 6 - Lithuania is ready to pay the cost to set up a permanent US military base if Washington should agree to establish one there, Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius said on Tuesday.
周一，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，他将考虑立陶宛关于建立永久基地的请求：“他们是我的朋友，是优秀的人，所以我们肯定会认真考虑。”立陶宛是欧盟和北约成员国，与俄罗斯及其亲密盟友白俄罗斯接壤。自2019年以来，美国一直通过轮换部署的方式，在该国保持一个近1000人的装甲营驻扎，这意味着部队每隔几个月就会轮换一次。
On Monday, US President Donald Trump said he would consider Lithuania's request for a permanent base: "They are friends of mine, they are great people, so we will certainly look at it." Lithuania, a member of the EU and NATO, borders Russia and Moscow's close ally Belarus. The United States has kept an armoured battalion of almost 1,000 troops there since 2019, in overlapping rotations, meaning the troops arrive and leave every few months.
辛凯维丘斯表示，他上个月在维尔纽斯与特朗普特使约翰·科尔的会晤中，提议将这种部署转变为永久存在。
Sinkevicius said he proposed turning this into a permanent presence at a meeting with Trump's envoy John Coale last month in Vilnius.
辛凯维丘斯在社交媒体上写道：“我很高兴这个想法被认真对待……这是威慑和安全的关键保障。我们的伙伴只需做出永久驻军的政治决定，立陶宛已准备好承担相关费用。”路透社
"I'm glad that this idea is being taken seriously... This is a critically important guarantee of deterrence and security," Sinkevicius wrote on "Our partners only need to make the political decision to permanently station troops, and Lithuania is ready to cover the costs involved." REUTERS