報道陣の質問受けず……米ロ首脳の会見に「あっけにとられた」 BBC北米編集長
Everybody here was absolutely flabbergasted because we were expecting firstly to be able to ask questions of um both of the leaders. We’ve been told we were being ushered through for a press conference, but instead what we got, as you saw, was a a joint statement from the two men, then rapidly leaving the stage before any of us could ask what those joint statements actually meant. Because the key thing that neither of them said was that they had agreed a ceasefire in Ukraine. There is no sign whatsoever that they reached agreement on that. Vladimir Putin talked about uh a trustworthy relationship that they had built. Um he didn’t um announce anything substantive that you could say was a productive outcome from this meeting and then they they rushed off the stage much to the shock and surprise I may say of the waiting press. I mean, if you’re trying to read between the lines of what both of them had to say, it sounded to me as though Vladimir Putin was saying that he was pleased to have had the opportunity to make his case to the American delegation and directly face to face in person with Donald Trump about the reasons why he says uh he felt it necessary to invade Ukraine. Now, we know he’s talked to Donald Trump about that before, and Donald Trump has sounded quite sympathetic to Vladimir Putin’s arguments about um NATO encroaching towards Russia’s borders and the reasons why he thought that that Ukraine posed some kind of long-term security threat and therefore felt the need to do something about it. It sounded to me as though he had reiterated that case to Donald Trump today and stopped well short of agreeing to stop the fighting. one can only assume that that is the the major point that Donald Trump was referring to that they were unable to reach agreement on him and he was very clear um on his way here that he wanted a ceasefire that he wanted to be able to announce that at the end of this meeting and he said this morning I will not be happy if I don’t get a ceasefire and he didn’t look like a particularly happy man it has to be said when he left the stage unable to announce
アメリカのドナルド・トランプ大統領とロシアのウラジーミル・プーチン大統領が15日午前（日本時間16日未明）から、米アラスカ州アンカレッジで会談した。
会談はウクライナでの停戦が焦点となったが、トランプ氏は合意には至らなかったと述べた。
両首脳は共同声明の発表後、記者の質問に答えずに退場し、それぞれすぐにアラスカを後にした。
会見に参加したBBCのサラ・スミス北米編集長は、「報道陣はあっけにとられてしまった」、「共同声明の実際の意味について、誰も質問できなかった」と述べた。
トランプ大統領が会談前に「停戦が確保できなかったらうれしくない」と述べていたとスミス編集長は述べ、「それだけに、その発表ができないままステージを離れた時の大統領は、特にうれしそうな様子には見えなかった」と話した。
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