俄罗斯驻联合国大使致CNN主持人克里斯汀·阿曼普的公开信

Dear Ms. Amanpour,

 

I am taken aback by the personal attacks you resorted to in your show on March 20. I have known you for many years (including through a number of on-the-air interviews) and used to respect you professionally. So it was somewhat startling that my inability to give another interview provoked such an outburst.

 

As to my unwillingness, as you put it, to leave my "comfort zone” – you are absolutely right. After 8 meetings of the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine and Crimea (six of them in front of TV cameras) I feel very comfortable that the truth is beginning to come across.

 

If, though, you imply that I don’t want to answer tough questions, then you are mature enough to know that I spoke to the “full house” at the Washington National Cathedral in October, 1983, two weeks after the South Korean airliner was downed, and then testified at the US Congress in May of 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, not to mention hundreds of other media and “live” appearances. So I can explain to anyone what “leaving a comfort zone” means.

 

But I wouldn’t be writing to you if you did not also choose to personally attack my daughter – your younger colleague – a Russian TV journalist. I am very proud of her – not only is she a good journalist, but she strictly keeps her professional distance from me.

 

Incidentally, I recall you married the State Department Spokesman. How was your professional credibility in the course of your courtship?

 

Don’t bother to answer. I don’t really want to know.

 

Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations 

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In her Thursday show, Amanpour said: "And one more note: we continue to reach out to the Russian government for their comment, including officials such as UN Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin. We haven't had much luck, but perhaps people like Churkin feel they don't really have to leave their comfort zone."

 

“Churkin’s own daughter is the US-based reporter for ‘Russia Today’ in New York. She's shown here, quizzing US State Department spokesman, Jen Psaki, over this whole Ukraine crisis. And in the past, she's even reported on her own father.”

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所有跟帖： 

• 喜欢这句：Don’t bother to answer. I don’t really want to know. -吕不韦_2009- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 08:32:20

• 呵呵，自己的喉舌公开辱骂友好国家的大使，还还意思说b别人双重标准。 -gushen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 12:30:05

• 回复：一位资深外交官如此过度的反应显得没风度和thin skin。西方记者问比这尖锐多倍的问题是常事。 -QinJin- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 13:00:49

• 呵呵，谈风度了？CNN的就合该不用有风度的？美国人没风度就是正常的？回应美国人的没风度就是没风度？ -封我又如何- ♂ (151 bytes) () 03/23/2014 postreply 14:15:01

• CNN主播讲的没问题啊。 -gushen- ♂ (146 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 07:24:51

• 外交官是应该锱铢必较的，包括‘面子’，尤其是大国之间经常会有礼仪之争，不能输阵 -东坡学士- ♂ (125 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 08:29:19

• 这句话，尤其是那个 even 词儿，就用得很阴险（读的时候声调、重音很重要），呵呵， -东坡学士- ♂ (940 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 11:17:02

• 外交官和记者争取面子。呵呵。 -gushen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 12:27:10

• 能仔细解释一下吗？我也没弄明白到底精彩之处在哪里 -ouyanghui- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 10:09:29

• 回复：+1 -QinJin- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 10:28:31

• 女主播这句话就属于相当主观的臆测（带有揶揄、讽刺的口吻，明显的贬义）， -东坡学士- ♂ (272 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 10:56:15

• 和她的前后文联系起来听，味道就不同了！ -东坡学士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 11:58:37

• 回复：就更没有问题了。 -QinJin- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 12:56:15

• 问题在于把没关系的私人关系(做记者的女儿)扯进来，不讲职业道德。 -helix22- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 12:06:04

• 记者揭公众人物的私人关系，有问题吗？日人民报骂骆家辉时有人说它没职业道德吗？ -gushen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 12:24:47

• 就事论事，扯上以前的别的事儿就显出‘意气之争’了，呵呵，打住吧？！ -东坡学士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2014 postreply 13:13:35