As to its future, and whether it has one as a North Atlantic defence alliance, that much bigger question will be for another day.

至于北约的未来，和其是否依旧要成为一个北大西洋防务联盟，这些更大的问题还需日后再议。

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Commodore Leavy: To clarify, while Australia, the United States and Japan share common values and strategic interests, there is no trilateral defence alliance between our countries.

利维准将：需要澄清的是，虽然澳大利亚、美国和日本具有相同的价值和战略利益，但不存在三国防务同盟。

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There were reasons for the delay – not least the determination of the eastern and central Europeans to join the alliance that they had seen as such an effective defence against the Soviet Union.

会议的耽搁是有原因的，尤其是北约将决定让东欧和中欧各国入约视为对前苏联的又一成功的防卫举措。

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The party is divided between those who argue that Scotland sans Trident could be a conventionally armed partner in the defence alliance, apparently in line with public thinking, and those who say that it is hypocrisy to banish Trident while sheltering under the Nato nuclear umbrella.

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