可·鲁比奥表示，美国与冰岛都希望加强在安全与防务领域的合作。
The US and Iceland are keen to foster closer cooperation on security and defense, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
“鉴于地理位置的特殊性，冰岛对欧洲乃至美国本土的防御都发挥着至关重要的作用，”鲁比奥周二在访问雷克雅未克时说道，“我们愿意就此展开对话，探讨双方还能在哪些领域开展合作。”鲁比奥在霍夫迪宫会见了冰岛外交部长索尔格杜尔·卡特琳·贡纳斯多蒂尔。这座宫殿正是1986年美国总统罗纳德·里根与苏联领导人米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫举行峰会的地点，那次峰会也标志着冷战走向尾声。
“Iceland, and its location, plays a critical role in the defense, both of Europe, but also the homeland of the United States because of geography,” Rubio said during a visit to Reykjavik on Tuesday. “We would be open to having those conversations to see what more we can do together.”Rubio met with Icelandic Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir at Hofdi House, site of a 1986 summit between US President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
今年10月正是此次被称为“雷克雅未克峰会”的会议40周年纪念日。随后，鲁比奥又与冰岛总理克里斯特伦·弗罗斯塔多蒂尔举行了会谈。
October is the 40th anniversary of that meeting, known as the Reykjavik Summit. Rubio then went to a meeting with Iceland’s prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir.
“双方都有意愿加强合作；显然，只要存在对两国都有利的机会，我们都会努力去实现，”鲁比奥说道。
“There’s interest in doing more together, and obviously if there’s opportunities that make sense for both countries, it’s something we would pursue,” Rubio said.
虽然冰岛是北大西洋公约组织的创始成员国，但它并无自己的军队，也没有任何外国军队长期驻扎于此。直到2006年，美国才结束了在凯夫拉维克军事基地的长期驻军。
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 continuous presence at a military base at Keflavik until 2006.
“过去我们确实在此长期驻军，不过2006年撤军并非因为出现了什么问题，而是由于我们需要将兵力调配至世界其他地区，”鲁比奥解释道，“事实上，过去20年来世界局势已经发生了巨大变化。”周一，鲁比奥在启程访问前表示，此次出访的契机源于今年早些时候在北约峰会上与冰岛外长的一次交谈。他称冰岛一直是美国的“良友”。
“We obviously had an enduring presence here that ended in 2006, not because of anything that was going wrong, but because we shifted forces to other parts of the world,” Rubio said. “The reality of it is, the world has changed over the last 20 years.”Rubio said as he left Washington for the visit on Monday that his trip stemmed from a conversation with his Icelandic counterpart at a NATO summit earlier this year. He said Iceland has been a “good friend” of the US.
此次访问是自2021年安东尼·布林肯率团访问冰岛以来，美国国务卿首次到访该国。美国国务院称，鲁比奥此行将重点探讨经济与安全领域的合作事宜。离开冰岛后，鲁比奥还将前往希腊与葡萄牙。
Rubio’s visit is the first by a US Secretary of State since Antony Blinken traveled to Iceland as part of a broader group in 2021. The State Department said Rubio would discuss economic and security collaboration during his trip. From Iceland, Rubio heads to Greece and then Portugal.
冰岛是一个仅有约40万人口的岛国。今年早些时候，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普曾扬言要夺取格陵兰岛，此后双方于上月达成协议，决定扩大美军在冰岛的军事存在，自此冰岛便备受外界关注。
Iceland, an island nation of about 400,000 people, has been in the spotlight since US President Donald Trump earlier this year threatened to seize Greenland, before negotiating an agreement last month to expand US military presence.
“我们与冰岛的合作关系可以说是非常切实且具体的，”鲁比奥说道，“我认为我们对世界的看法是一致的。”
“Our alignment with Iceland is generally, you know, very concrete,” Rubio said. “I think we share the same perspectives of the world.”