Το U.S. Department of State για Τουρκία-Ελλάδα-Πρόσφυγες

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Οι ερωτο-απαντήσεις στην ενημέρωση των δημοσιογράφων από τον Εκπρόσωπο του U.S. Department of State, John Kirby, της Δευτέρας 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2016, παρουσιάζουν ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον καθώς ένα κομμάτι τους αφορά την ανθρωπιστική κρίση στο Αιγαίο, την Ελλάδα και την Τουρκία.

Παραθέτουμε το σχετικό απόσπασμα στα Αγγλικά ώστε να μην υπάρξει κανένα  θέμα τυχόντος μεταφραστικού λάθους.

Στο καταλυτικό ερώτημα ποιος «διευκολύνει»  όλους αυτούς τους απελπισμένους ανθρώπους, τους Σύρους πρόσφυγες, να μπουν στην Ελλάδα, και τι κάνουν για αυτό οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, ο εκπρόσωπος απέφυγε να δώσει ευθεία απάντηση δικαιολογώντας, μάλιστα, την Τουρκία ότι και αυτή έχει να διαχειριστεί μια δύσκολη κατάσταση…

Πάντως, όπως είπε ο κ. Kirby , οι ΗΠΑ πιστεύουν ότι η λύση στην ροή προσφύγων από τη Συρία θα προκύψει μόνον εάν επιτευχθεί πολιτική συμφωνία να σταματήσει ο πόλεμος στη Συρία και πρόσθεσε ότι οι ΗΠΑ συνομιλούν με όλες τις πλευρές για το ζήτημα αυτό και πως προσπαθούν να βοηθήσουν Ελλάδα και Τουρκία στην αντιμετώπιση του προσφυγικού προβλήματος.

Ο διάλογος

QUESTION: John, I want to go back to the refugee crisis again, and what the United States to try to stop this tragedy, especially for Greece, because this price is unbearable, as you know, for Greece. Every day thousand of refugees arrive in Greece, and because of the economic crisis, the country cannot afford this problem. My question is this: Did you talk to the Turks? Did you try to stop this refugee tide that started from Turkey? And as you may know, many of them – many children – are end up dead in the sea. I’m asking – my question is this: Did you talk to the Turks to try to stop this flowing of the refugees?

MR KIRBY: We have talked to every nation that’s been touched by this crisis.

QUESTION: Yes.

MR KIRBY: And Greece is one of them, you’re absolutely right. And Turkey is absolutely one of them. And that’s why the United States remains the world – the world’s leader when it comes to contributing funds and resources to help nations that are dealing with this, including Turkey and Jordan, deal with the refugees that they have that they are trying to care for. So yeah, we talk about this all the time.

If you’re asking are we pointing fingers and blaming, no —

QUESTION: No, I’m asking this.

MR KIRBY: — we’re not.

QUESTION: I’m trying to find out if you asked the Turks to try to stop this —

MR KIRBY: The —

QUESTION: — because they are – I mean, they are using – they take boats from Turkish ports, okay?

MR KIRBY: I – listen, I – look, I —

QUESTION: Who is helping them to go from Turkey to Greece and then to Europe? This is the question.

MR KIRBY: I understand the question. These are desperate people, and they are pursuing desperate means to escape violence and death and the destruction of their homes and their property. The real source is Assad and the regime and the continued fighting there in Syria. We’ve talked about that, which is why our effort here at the State Department is to get to a political solution, to get to a resolution of the conflict, so that we can do – so there can be an end to this civil war and conflict so that people don’t have to leave Syria. We want them to be able to have a home there. That’s the whole purpose here. So yes, we’re of course talking to all nations and other nations in Europe that are deeply affected by this refugee crisis. It’s why we continue to contribute more resources. The Secretary announced additional resources for Syrian refugees in particular when he was in London. We’re going to continue to look for ways, as he said there, to even increase our contributions.

But this isn’t – back to what I said before – you brought up Turkey. This isn’t some theoretical exercise for them. I mean, they’re dealing with millions of desperate people on their side of the border, and then others – hundreds of thousands, perhaps, maybe even more than that – on the other side. And so we’re very committed to working with them to try to help them address this in the best way possible.