斯塔默访白宫与特朗普会晤：特朗普接受查尔斯三世第二次国事访问邀请
2025年2月27日，英国首相 Keir Starmer 访问位于华盛顿特区的白宫，与美国总统特朗普会晤。两人在椭圆形办公室会见记者，随后共进工作午餐并举行工作会谈，当天下午3时28分在白宫东厅举行联合记者会。这是 Starmer 就任首相后对白宫的一次正式访问，两人此前已见过两次面。
椭圆形办公室环节最受瞩目的一幕，是 Starmer 当面转交英国国王查尔斯三世的国书：国王邀请特朗普对英国进行第二次国事访问。Starmer 说，这是从未有过的事、是史无前例的，国王希望这一次比上一次国事访问办得更好，这是一封真正历史性的、史无前例的第二次国事访问邀请函，信中还提到温莎。特朗普当场查看签名后说：「答案是肯定的。代表我们出色的第一夫人 Melania 和我本人，答案是肯定的。我们期待前往，向国王致敬，也向你们的国家致敬。」他在随后的联合记者会上再次说，这封由国王经首相手书送达的历史性第二次国事访问邀请「是莫大的荣誉，因为以前从未发生过」，并请 Starmer 代为转达美方的接受。
乌克兰是会谈的中心议题。特朗普在联合记者会上说，他向 Starmer 通报了结束俄乌战争的努力：他与俄总统 Putin、乌总统 Zelenskyy 先后通了电话，美方团队还多次与北约秘书长沟通，下一步是迈向一个「完全可以实现的停火」。他还宣布，Zelenskyy 将于次日（2月28日）到白宫签署一项历史性协议，使美国成为开发乌克兰矿产、稀土以及石油天然气的主要伙伴，美国纳税人将由此有效收回援助乌克兰的资金，该矿产协议还将为美乌更可持续的未来关系奠定基础。他说，这场战争三年多来约有100万乌克兰人与俄罗斯人无谓丧生，并称在他就任一个多月里，美方在和平上取得的进展已超过此前数年。
记者追问美方会否为欧洲向乌克兰派驻维和力量提供空中掩护等「后盾」（backstop）时，特朗普在椭圆形办公室说，美方人员因矿产协议进入乌克兰工作本身就是一种后盾，「如果我们带着很多人在那里工作，我不认为有谁会乱来」，但他同时说，和平协议尚未达成，他不喜欢在达成协议之前谈维和。Starmer 在椭圆形办公室表示英方将全力确保任何协议都是持久的；在联合记者会上被问到是否得到了满意答复时，他说双方进行了非常富有成效的讨论，协议必须先达成，两国团队将继续商讨如何确保协议持久并得到执行。他在记者会开场还明确表示，英国已准备好「派兵上阵、派飞机升空」来支持一项协议，与盟友一道行动，因为这是和平得以持续的唯一途径；他还说，和平不能是奖励侵略者、或给伊朗这类政权以鼓励的和平，历史必须站在缔造和平者一边、而不是入侵者一边。
特朗普在记者会上表示支持北约条约第五条（集体防御条款），但说他不认为会有需要动用它的理由，并预计会达成一项成功的、长期的和平。Starmer 说他将于周日（3月2日）主持18个国家的会议继续商讨乌克兰问题，并说欧洲必须挺身而出：英国今年将向乌克兰提供比以往更多的军事援助，并已在本周早些时候公布冷战以来英国国防开支最大幅度、持续性的增长。特朗普说，英国等北约伙伴必须大幅投资国防能力，很多情况下国内生产总值（GDP）的4%或5%是合适的，并对英国正在提高军费表示肯定。
查戈斯群岛问题在椭圆形办公室被记者直接问到：Starmer 已签署协议把查戈斯群岛移交毛里求斯，美方是否批准？特朗普回答，双方很快会就此讨论，他感觉结果会非常好；对方谈的是一项非常长期的、有力的租约，「实际上约140年，这可是很长的时间」，美方倾向于同意英方的做法，但现在还稍早，须先拿到细节，「听起来不坏」。逐字记录中特朗普未就该协议提及迭戈加西亚基地的名称，表态限于租约与原则倾向。
经贸方面，两人在记者会上宣布着手一项新的经济协议。Starmer 说，两国在对方经济中各有1.5万亿美元投资、在两国经济中共创造超过250万个就业岗位，双边贸易关系公平、平衡、互惠；两国是仅有的两个拥有万亿美元级科技行业的西方国家、在人工智能领域领先，双方已决定开始着手一项以先进技术为核心的新经济协议。特朗普说：「我们将达成一项很棒的贸易协议。无论如何，我们最终会达成一项对两国都非常好的贸易协议，我们此刻正在推进。」被问到 Starmer 是否说服他不要对英国加征关税时，特朗普说「他试过，他午餐时真的很卖力」，并说两国「很有可能最终达成一项真正的贸易协议，那样关税就没有必要了。我们拭目以待」。
特朗普还在记者会上说，Winston Churchill 的半身像已经回到椭圆形办公室「它应在的位置」。Starmer 说，这次访问非常好、非常富有成效，英国与美国仍是彼此在防务上的第一伙伴，两国军队之交织程度无出其右；双方团队接下来将共同确定第二次国事访问的日期。
（来源：白宫）
Starmer Meets Trump at the White House: Trump Accepts King Charles III's Invitation for a Second State Visit
On February 27, 2025, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the White House in Washington, D.C., for talks with President Donald Trump. The two men spoke to reporters in the Oval Office, then held a working lunch and further work sessions, and closed the day with a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House, which began at 3:28 p.m. It was a formal White House visit by Starmer as prime minister; the two leaders had met twice before.
The most closely watched moment of the Oval Office session was Starmer's delivery, by hand, of a letter from King Charles III inviting Trump to make a second state visit to the United Kingdom. Starmer said the invitation was really special, that it had never happened before and was unprecedented, that the King wanted to make this visit even better than the last state visit, and that it was a truly historic and unprecedented second state visit; the letter also mentioned Windsor. After checking the signature, Trump replied: "The answer is yes. On behalf of our wonderful First Lady, Melania, and myself, the answer is yes. And we look forward to being there and honoring the King and honoring, really, your country." At the joint news conference that followed, Trump again called the historic second state visit extended by letter from King Charles through the prime minister a great honor "because it's never happened before," and asked Starmer to convey America's acceptance.
Ukraine was the central subject of the talks. At the news conference, Trump said he had provided Starmer with an update on efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine: he had held back-to-back calls with President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, his team had spoken with the NATO secretary general on numerous occasions, and the next step was toward a very achievable cease-fire. He also announced that Zelenskyy would visit the White House the next day, February 28, to sign a historic agreement that would make the United States a major partner in developing Ukraine's minerals, rare earths and oil and gases, under which American taxpayers would effectively be reimbursed for the money poured into helping Ukraine defend itself, and which would provide the basis for a more sustainable future relationship between the United States and Ukraine. He said approximately 1 million Ukrainians and Russians had been senselessly killed in more than three years of conflict, and that in just over one month his administration had achieved more progress toward peace than the previous administration had in years.
Asked whether the United States could be persuaded, as part of a peace settlement, to provide air cover — a backstop security position — for contributions Europe might make, Trump said in the Oval Office that having a lot of American workers in Ukraine under the minerals agreement would itself be a backstop: "I don't think anybody is going to play around if we're there with a lot of workers." He added, however, that no deal had been made yet and that he did not like to talk about peacekeeping until a deal existed. Starmer said in the Oval Office that Britain would play its full part in making sure any deal was a lasting one. At the news conference, asked whether he had received a satisfying answer on a backstop, he said the two sides had held a very productive discussion, that the deal had to come first, and that their teams would be talking about how to make sure the deal sticks, is lasting and is enforced. In his opening remarks he stated plainly that the United Kingdom was ready "to put boots on the ground and planes in the air to support a deal, working together with our allies, because that is the only way that peace will last," and that it could not be a peace that rewards the aggressor or encourages regimes like Iran's, saying history must be on the side of the peacemaker, not the invader.
At the news conference, Trump said he supported Article 5 of the NATO treaty but did not think there would be any reason for it, predicting a successful, long-lasting peace. Starmer said he would host 18 countries on Sunday, March 2, to further discussions on Ukraine, and that Europe had to step up: Britain would give more military aid to Ukraine this year than ever, and he had set out that week the biggest sustained increase in British defense spending since the Cold War. Trump said the United Kingdom and other NATO partners needed to make large investments in their defense capabilities, that in many cases 4 percent or 5 percent of gross domestic product would be appropriate, and he welcomed Britain's increase.
The Chagos Islands were raised directly by a reporter in the Oval Office, who asked whether Trump would approve the deal Starmer had signed to give the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Trump replied that the two governments would have discussions about it very soon and that he had a feeling it was going to work out very well; that they were talking about a very long-term, powerful and very strong lease — "about 140 years, actually. That's a long time" — and that the United States would be inclined to go along with Britain's country, though it was a little early, the details had to be provided, and it did not sound bad. In the transcript, Trump did not name the Diego Garcia base in connection with the agreement; his remarks were limited to the lease and his inclination in principle.
On trade, the two leaders announced at the news conference that work would begin on a new economic agreement. Starmer said the two countries had $1.5 trillion invested in each other's economies, creating over 2.5 million jobs across both economies; that the trading relationship was fair, balanced and reciprocal; that the two nations were the only two Western countries with trillion-dollar tech sectors and were leaders in artificial intelligence; and that they had decided that day to begin work on a new economic deal with advanced technology at its core. Trump said: "We're going to have a great trade agreement. One way or the other, we're going to end up with a very good trade agreement for both countries, and we're working on that as we speak." Asked whether Starmer had persuaded him not to put tariffs on the United Kingdom, Trump said, "He tried. He was working hard at lunch," and added that there was a very good chance the two countries could "end up with a real trade deal where the tariffs wouldn't be necessary. We'll see."
Trump also noted at the news conference that the bust of Winston Churchill was back in its rightful place in the Oval Office. Starmer called the visit very good and very productive, said Britain and America remained each other's first partner in defense with no two militaries more intertwined, and said their teams would now work together to set a date for the second state visit.
(Source: The White House)
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图片来源：图：2025年2月27日，英国首相斯塔默在白宫罗斯福厅签署留言簿，特朗普总统在旁（白宫官方照片，公共领域）。 / Photo: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signs the guest book in the Roosevelt Room of the White House as President Trump looks on, February 27, 2025 (official White House photo, public domain).
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