Penolong Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat Victoria Nuland (U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (Reuters/Gleb Garanich - thinkINpictures @1WORLD Community)
SitiWanMahani - Seorang 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 per-bualan telefon bocor. Jurucakap beliau menekankan pada Jumaat bahawa Merkel diang-gap 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."
