莫斯科，10月6日电——克里姆林宫周二警告称，北约成员国立陶宛初步决定解除其领土上部署核武器的宪法禁令，可能导致该地区局势出现新一轮升级。
MOSCOW, Oct 6 - The Kremlin on Tuesday warned that a preliminary decision by NATO member Lithuania to lift a constitutional ban on hosting nuclear arms on its territory could lead to a new round of escalation in the region.
立陶宛议会周二投票赞成取消该禁令，这是生效所需的两轮投票中的第一轮。
Lithuania's parliament voted in favour of removing the ban on Tuesday, in a first of two ballots required for the change.
当记者询问俄罗斯如何看待这一事态发展，以及美国总统特朗普本月早些时候提出的在该波罗的海国家建立美军基地的提议时，克里姆林宫发言人佩斯科夫表示："如果实际上作为北约领头国家（美国）的军事基础设施向我们边境靠拢，那么当然不能不被视为加剧紧张局势的一步。"
Asked by reporters how Russia viewed that development, as well as a proposal floated this month by US President Donald Trump to build an American military base in the Baltic country, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "If the military infrastructure of what is, in effect, NATO's leading country (the US) is moving closer to our borders, then, of course, this cannot be perceived as anything other than a step towards escalating tensions."
他补充道："在邻国领土部署核武器也是同样的道理。这两种事态发展都不会有助于欧洲大陆的稳定与可预测性；相反，它们将非常遗憾地标志着紧张局势的又一次显著升级。"立陶宛是欧盟和北约成员国，与俄罗斯及莫斯科的亲密盟友白俄罗斯接壤。自2019年以来，美国在那里轮换部署了一个近1000人的装甲营，部队每隔几个月轮换一次。
He added: "The same applies to the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of a neighbouring state. Neither of these developments will contribute to stability and predictability on the European continent; on the contrary, they will, much to our regret, mark yet another significant escalation of tensions." Lithuania, a member of the EU and NATO, borders Russia and Moscow's close ally Belarus. The US 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.
解除核武器禁令的法律改革需要议会三分之二多数在两轮投票中通过才能生效，旨在废除立陶宛脱离苏联三十多年前设立的禁令。
The legal overhaul of the nuclear arms ban, which requires a two-thirds majority in two parliamentary votes to go into effect, is set to remove prohibitions put in place more than three decades ago after Lithuania broke away from the Soviet Union.