古巴外交部周二称一艘美国核动力潜艇在美国海军基地停靠关塔那摩湾“挑衅性升级”

古巴外交部表示，美国核动力潜艇帕萨迪纳号(USS Pasadena)本月早些时候停靠在关塔那摩湾的海军基地。美国海军发言人告诉美国广播公司新闻，这是一次“预定的后勤停留”，因为这艘潜艇将前往哥伦比亚参加多国海上演习。

“外交部强烈反对一艘核动力潜艇于2023年7月5日抵达关塔那摩湾，该潜艇一直停留在位于那里的美国军事基地，直到7月8日，这是美国的挑衅升级，其政治或战略动机不得而知，”声明写道。

声明继续称:“此时此刻，那里有一艘核潜艇，这不禁让人怀疑，在这个世界和平地区采取这一行动背后的军事原因是什么。”。

美国海军帕萨迪纳号在西太平洋部署六个月后，于2017年3月30日返回圣地亚哥的洛马海军基地。

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美国海军发言人说，美国政府通知古巴政府，这艘潜艇将于7月5日上午停靠关塔那摩湾。

“这不是没有先例。其他核动力潜艇以前也曾停靠在关塔那摩，没有发生事故，”该发言人补充道。

在该岛的另一边，一艘俄罗斯军舰于周二抵达哈瓦那港口。

俄罗斯官方报纸《俄罗斯新闻报》(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)报道称，这艘名为“Perekop”的俄罗斯训练舰进入港口，载有“人道主义援助，以及直接从俄罗斯圣彼得堡博物馆(Russian Museum of St. Petersburg)运来的设备，用于在哈瓦那美术馆(Museum of Fine Arts)举办多媒体展览。

佩列科普号从俄罗斯港口城市克朗什塔特穿越大西洋到达加勒比海。它于6月20日离开俄罗斯，于7月11日抵达古巴。俄罗斯国防部表示，这艘船将继续在加勒比海、南美和非洲停靠，然后在9月返回俄罗斯。

俄罗斯军舰出现在古巴海岸是一个迹象增加外交关系两国之间。

遭受疫情重创的古巴几个月来一直面临食品和天然气等基本商品的严重短缺。

Cuban government calls US nuclear submarine stop a 'provocative escalation'

The Cuban Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called the stop by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine at the U.S. naval base atGuantanamo Baya "provocative escalation.”

The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Pasadena, stopped at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay earlier this month, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said. A U.S. Navy spokesperson told ABC News it was a "scheduled logistics stop" as the submarine transits to Colombia to participate in a multinational maritime exercise.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly rejects the arrival of a nuclear-powered submarine in Guantanamo Bay on July 5, 2023, that stayed until July 8 at the US military base located there, which is a provocative escalation of the United States, whose political or strategic motives are not known," the statement read.

"The presence of a nuclear submarine there at this moment makes it imperative to wonder what is the military reason behind this action in this peaceful region of the world," the statement continued.

The U.S. government notified the Cuban government that the submarine would stop in Guantanamo Bay on the morning of July 5, a U.S. Navy spokesperson said.

"This is not without precedent. Other nuclear-powered submarines have stopped at Guantanamo before without incident," the spokesperson added.

On the other side of the island, a Russian naval vessel arrived at Havana's port on Tuesday.

The naval vessel -- a Russian training ship named the Perekop - entered the port carrying "humanitarian aid, as well as equipment delivered directly from the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg for multimedia exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts of Havana," Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the official state newspaper of Russia, reported.

The Perekop traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from the Russian port city of Kronshtadt to the Caribbean Sea. It departed Russia on June 20 and arrived in Cuba on July 11. The ship will go on to make other stops in the Caribbean, South America and Africa before returning to Russia in September, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The presence of the Russian naval ship on Cuba's shores is a sign ofincreased diplomatic relationsbetween the two nations.

Cuba, which was hit hard by the pandemic, has been experiencing severe shortages of basic goods like food and gas for months.