美外交官拒絕對電話通話中涉歐盟言論置評

U.S. diplomat Victoria Nuland refused to comment Friday on the leak of an apparently bugged private phone conversation in which the speaker makes a disparaging remark about the European Union.

Nuland told reporters Friday she will not comment on a "private diplomatic conversation." But she called the recording of the call "pretty impressive tradecraft," saying the audio quality of the recording was very good.

U.S. officials have implied Russia may be involved in the leak of the recording, which features voices resembling those of Assistant Secretary of State Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. The people on the alleged call discuss international efforts to resolve Ukraine's ongoing political crisis, and at one point, the voice resembling Nuland's uses vulgar wording to suggest the European Union's position should be ignored.

U.S. officials on Thursday pointed to a tweet by an aide to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin as the first to promote the recording, which appeared on the YouTube website.

An aide to Rogozin, Dmitry Loskutov, told the Associated Press on Friday that neither Rogozin nor the Russian government played a role in leaking the tape.美國外交官盧嵐星期五拒絕就顯然被竊聽的私下談話的內容發表評論。電話中的這個人對歐盟使用了貶低的語言。

盧嵐星期五對記者說，她不會對“外交官之間的私下對話”發表評論。不過她稱那段電話錄音是“令人欽佩的間諜手法”，還說，錄音的音頻質量非常好。

美國官員暗示俄羅斯可能跟錄音泄露有關，其中的聲音聽起來像是美國助理國務卿盧嵐和美國駐烏克蘭大使皮雅特。錄音中的兩人討論瞭解決烏克蘭當前政治危機的國際努力。聽上去像盧嵐的聲音在通話中一度使用了不雅的字眼，說可以無視歐盟的立場。

美國官員星期四指出，始作俑者是俄羅斯副總理德米特里•羅戈津的一名助手，將這段錄音上傳到了YouTube網站。

羅戈津的助手羅斯庫托夫星期五對美聯社說，羅戈津和俄羅斯政府都跟這段錄音的泄漏沒有關聯。