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Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat Victoria Nuland (U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland (Reuters/Gleb Garanich - thinkINpictures @1WORLD Community)
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pegawai Rusia, yang menulis sebarang tweet perbualan telefon bugged di mana
seorang diplomat kanan Amerika Syarikat kedengaran berkata “f ** k EU” ketika
membincangkan cara-cara untuk menamatkan krisis politik di Ukraine, telah
menafikan bahawa Rusia terlibat dalam membocorkan rakaman.
Dmitry
Loskutov, pembantu kepada Timbalan Perdana Menteri Dmitry Rogozin, katanya
ternampak video 4 minit, bertajuk ‘boneka Maidan’ dimuat naik di YouTube dengan
bahasa, kapsyen Rusia - agak secara kebetulan. Asal rakaman tidak jelas. Video
ini pertama kali dilaporkan di Kyiv Post.
Apabila
wartawan White House, Peter Baker, meminta Loskutov “Bagaimana ia datang di
internet untuk anda?” rasmi Rusia menjelaskan di Twitter beliau bahawa ia
berlaku ketika dia innocently melayari laman ini manakala bosnya adalah jauh bermesyuarat.
Loskutov menegaskan bahawa keputusannya untuk mengumumkan kembali video di
Twitter halaman peribadinya pada hari berikutnya mempunyai apa-apa kaitan
dengan kerja hariannya untuk kerajaan.
Dalam
banyak yang bercakap - tentang klip, diplomat tertinggi baru Washington bagi
Eropah, Victoria Nuland, kedengaran berkata “f ** k EU” semasa bercakap dengan
rakan beliau, Duta Amerika ke Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyat, bagaimana untuk
menamatkan berte-rusan krisis politik di Ukraine.
Perbualan
memalukan berkisar kerajaan Ukraine dan tawaran Presiden Viktor Yanu-kovich
bulan lepas untuk membuat pemimpin pembangkang, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Perdana
Menteri baru dan Vitaly Klitschko, Timbalan Perdana Menteri.
“Saya
tidak fikir bahawa Klitschko perlu pergi ke dalam kerajaan. Saya tidak fikir
adalah perlu. Saya tidak fikir ia adalah idea yang baik, “Nuland nampaknya
mengatakan. Pada pandangan beliau, Yatsenyuk harus bertanggungjawab bagi
kerajaan baru, tetapi Klitschko tidak akan mendapat bersama-sama dengan dia. “It’s
just not going to work,” nota katanya.
“Dari
segi dia tidak ke dalam kerajaan, hanya membiarkan dia tinggal dan melakukan
kerja rumah politiknya,” suara lelaki - dipercayai Pyatt - replies. “Dari segi
proses bergerak ke hadapan, kami ingin menyimpan demokrat sederhana
bersama-sama,” tam-bah beliau.
Kemuncaknya
perbualan bocor yang berkuasa akhirnya datang apabila Nuland berkata, dia
diberitahu bahawa ketua Ban PBB Ki - moon adalah kira-kira untuk melantik bekas
duta Belanda ke Kiev, Robert yang nampak berdekatan sekali, sebagai wakilnya di
Ukraine.
“Itu
akan menjadi besar saya rasa untuk membantu ‘glue’ perkara ini dan PBB mem-punyai
lekatkannya dan anda tahu, f ** k EU,” dia kata-kata merujuk jelas kepada
perbezaan mereka ke atas dasar-dasar.
Russian
Govt not complicit in US diplomat's 'F**k
the EU' call leak, Official says . . .
A
Russian official, who tweeted a bugged phone conversation in which a senior US
diplomat is heard saying “f**k the EU" while discussing ways to end the
political crisis in Ukraine, has denied that Russia was involved in leaking the
recording.
Dmitry
Loskutov, an aide to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, said he spotted a
four-minute video, titled ‘Maidan puppets’ uploaded on YouTube with
Russian-language captions, quite by chance. The origin of the recording is not
clear. The video was first reported in the Kyiv Post.
When
the White House correspondent, Peter Baker, asked Loskutov "How did it
come up on the internet for you?" the Russian official explained on his
Twitter that it happened when he was innocently surfing the web while his boss
was away at a meeting. Loskutov stressed that his decision to repost the video
on his personal Twitter page the next day had nothing to do with his daily work
for the government.
In
the much talked-about clip, Washington's new top diplomat for Europe, Victoria
Nuland, is heard saying “f**k the EU" while speaking with her counterpart,
an American Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyat, on how to end the ongoing
political crisis in Ukraine.
The
embarrassing conversation revolves around the Ukraine government and President
Viktor Yanukovich's offer last month to make opposition leader, Arseniy
Yatsenyuk, the new Prime Minister and Vitaly Klitschko, Deputy Prime Minister.
“I
don’t think that Klitschko should go into the government. I don’t think it is
necessary. I don’t think it is a good idea,” Nuland appears to say. In her
view, Yatsenyuk should be in charge of the new government, but Klitschko would
not get along with him. “It’s just not going to work,” she notes.
“In
terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his
political homework,” a male voice - believed to be Pyatt - replies. “In terms
of the process moving ahead, we want to keep the moderate democrats together,”
he adds.
The
leaked conversation's powerful climax finally comes when Nuland says she was
told that UN chief Ban Ki-moon is about to appoint the former Dutch ambassador
to Kiev, Robert Serry, as his representative in Ukraine.
"That
would be great I think to help glue this thing and have the UN glue it and you
know, f**k the EU," she remarks in apparent reference to their differences
over policies.
Presiden
Majlis Kesatuan Eropah Herman Van Rompuy (EU Council president Herman Van
Rompuy (AFP Photo/Georges Gobet - thinkINpictures @1WORLD Community)
Pyatt
menjawab: “Kita mesti melakukan sesuatu untuk membuat ia melekat bersama -sama,
kerana anda boleh cukup yakin bahawa jika ia mula mendapat ketinggian, Rusia
akan bekerja di belakang tabir untuk cuba torpedo.”
Jabatan
Negara Amerika Syarikat tidak menafikan kesahihan video, yang pergi virus internet,
dan menekankan bahawa Nuland telah memohon maaf untuk “komen dila-porkan.”
Bagaimanapun, beliau tidak memberikan sebarang penjelasan lanjut yang telah
dijangka dari beliau semasa sidang akhbar di Kiev pada hari berikutnya.
“Saya
tidak akan mengulas mengenai perbualan diplomatik swasta,” katanya kepada
pemberita selepas mengadakan perbincangan dengan Presiden Ukraine Viktor
Yanukovich dan pemimpin pembangkang.
Daripada
meminta maaf untuk rancangan untuk masuk campur dengan politik di Ukraine,
diplomat Amerika Syarikat telah memilih untuk menuduh Rusia bocor rakaman.
Jurucakap White House Jay Carney berkata pada hari Khamis bahawa jawatan
Loskutov dengan jelas menunjukkan penglibatan mungkin Moscow.
Jurucakap
Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat, Jen Psaki, juga telah menyerang pegawai Rusia
untuk mempromosikan pita itu sebagai “rendah baru dalam tradecraft Rusia.”
Beliau menafikan bahawa White House cuba untuk mengatur satu senario politik
tertentu di Kiev, namun.
“Sudah
tentu tidak,” dakwanya. “Ia sepatutnya tidak menghairankan bahawa
pegawai-pegawai Amerika Syarikat bercakap tentang isu-isu di seluruh DUNIA.
Sudah tentu kita lakukan. Itulah yang diplomat lakukan,” tambah Psaki.
Sementara
itu, Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel telah menyatakan kemarahan atas perbualan
telefon bocor. Jurucakap beliau menekankan pada Jumaat bahawa Merkel dianggap
komen Nuland ini “benar-benar tidak boleh diterima,” sambil menambah baha-wa
Kesatuan Eropah akan terus dengan “usaha intensif untuk menenangkan keadaan di
Ukraine.”
Pada
hari Sabtu, semasa temu bual di televisyen Belgium RTBF, Presiden Majlis Eropah
Herman Van Rompuy juga menyifatkan komen Victoria Nuland sebagai tidak boleh
diterima.
Ketua
Majlis Eropah menegaskan bahawa dasar EU ke arah Ukraine telah betul, sambil
menambah bahawa “rakan-rakan Amerika tidak perlu campur tangan dengan dasar
Kesatuan Eropah.”
Pyatt
replies: "We've got to do something to make it stick together, because you
can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, the Russians will be
working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it."
The
US State Department has not denied the authenticity of the video, which went
viral on the internet, and stressed that Nuland had apologized for the
"reported comments." However, she offered no further explanation which
had been expected from her during a press conference in Kiev the next day.
“I
will not comment on a private diplomatic conversation," she told reporters
after talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and opposition leaders.
Instead
of apologizing for plans to meddle with politics in Ukraine, US diplomats have
chosen to accuse Russia of leaking the recording. White House spokesman Jay
Carney said on Thursday that Loskutov's post clearly pointed to Moscow's
possible involvement.
US
State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, has also attacked Russian officials
for promoting the tape as "a new low in Russian tradecraft." She
denied that the White House was trying to orchestrate a particular political
scenario in Kiev, however.
"Absolutely
not," she claimed. "It should be no surprise that US officials talk
about issues around the world. Of course we do. That's what diplomats do,"
Psaki added.
Meanwhile,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed outrage over the leaked phone conversation.
Her spokeswoman emphasized on Friday that Merkel considered Nuland's comment
"absolutely unacceptable," adding that the European Union will
continue with its "intensive efforts to calm the situation in
Ukraine."
On
Saturday, during an interview on Belgian television RTBF, European Council
President Herman Van Rompuy also described Victoria Nuland's comments as
unacceptable.
The
Head of the European Council pointed out that the EU's policy towards Ukraine
has been right, adding that "American colleagues should not interfere with
the policy of the European Union."
