In fact, if we use the year 2000 as a target, I believe that in that year the number of nations with which we have relations will be an increase on today's number rather than a decrease.
事實上，如果我們用西元兩千年作為一個目標年的話，我相信西元兩千年我們外交關係的數字應當是會增加而非減少的。