But this eastward expansion has paused.

但其东扩业已暂停。

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Russia is vehemently opposed to the further eastward expansion of NATO to two large former Soviet Republics.

俄罗斯坚决反对北约向东欧扩展到这两个前苏联成员的国家。

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NATO congratulates itself on winning the cold war without firing a shot, and then reuniting Europe with its eastward expansion.

北约各国为不费一枪一弹就取得了冷战的胜利而弹冠相庆，随后，他们又靠东扩行动重新统一了欧洲。

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Moscow has always been strongly opposed to NATO's eastward expansion.

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I'm proud of Britain's role in driving forward the single market and the EU's eastward expansion.

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Agenda 2000 is supposed also to prepare the Union for eastward expansion early in the next century.

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Yeltsin will sign the security agreement, although he strongly opposes NATO's eastward expansion.

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