西欧国家积极探索加强防务合作

West European Nations Actively Exploring the means for Close Defence Cooperation.

自1983年美国总统里根提出"战略防御倡议"以来,特别是去年10月美苏首脑冰岛会晤和今年4月戈尔巴乔夫提出"双零点方案"建议后,西欧国家普遍感到美国的"核保护伞"越来越不可靠,西欧安全面临新的严重威胁。有鉴于此,法国总统密特朗、联邦德国总理科尔和英国首相撒切尔等西欧国家领导人进行频繁会晤,一些著名的学者、专家及有识之士也纷纷举行各种会议,研究欧洲安全面临的严峻形势。

At present, security in Western Europe is facing a new challenge—the readjustment of the US strategy might possibly lead to decoupling of the Euro-American defence relations and a possible detente between the two superpowers will bring forth certain decisions detrimental to the intesests of Western Europe. Against this background, leaders in these countries unequivocally stand for strengthing defence cooperation among themselves. Their shortterm aim is to seek for a unanimous stand among themselves toward the forthcoming nuclear disarmament talk between the US and USSR, while the long-term one is to build a European defence for Europeans. Their strategic planning in this respect is to build a European defence community capable of self-defence and not harmful to the NATO, based on the military strength of these countries with French-German defence cooperation as the main force, France, FRG and Britain as the nucleus and the seven members of the Western European Union as the basic forces.