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华盛顿哥伦比亚特区（Washington, D.C.）
2020年4月8日
特朗普总统、副总统彭斯和抗击冠状病毒工作小组成员在新闻发布会发表讲话
詹姆斯·布雷迪新闻发布厅（James S. Brady Press Briefing Room）
美国东部夏令时间下午5:47
摘译
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国务卿蓬佩奥：谢谢总统先生。在总统领导下，我在国务院的团队和我本人正尽我们的力量保护美国人民不受病毒的伤害，同时帮助他们返回祖国也是一件很重要的工作。
众所周知， 由于很多国家都关闭了铁路交通、汽车客运、基础设置系统，关系到撤离这些国家的能力——他们被困在那里，他们陷入困境——国务院为此闻风而动采取行动。
自1月29日至今，我们已安排490多个航班从世界各地飞回美国，帮助50,000多美国公民从90多个国家回到自己的祖国。我们在全世界范围内采取撤侨行动的规模在我们一生中可谓前所未有。我们正与各方面进行协调，涉及外国政府、军队、机场当局、医疗单位、运输公司、旅馆等等，数不胜数。我们正与他们合作，确保美国人能够回国与家人团聚。
你们可以看到，在我背后是一幅航班地图，说明我们撤侨的情况……遍及世界各地。每一天我都有机会听取我们的团队汇报的感人事件。我可以举几个例子。
我们驻秘鲁的使团：与秘鲁军队和警察部队一起安排内河船只溯流而上——前往上游接回被困在亚马逊（Amazon）森林深处的公民。
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国务院撤侨工作小组（Repatriation Task Force）、我们的领事官员杰出地完成了任务。我感谢我们在国防部（Department of Defense）的伙伴为其中一些航班返回国内提供了帮助，还要感谢其他政府机构——我们在本届美国政府各部门的兄弟姐妹为撤回这些人员提供了帮助。
最后，除了我们的撤侨努力外，我们还继续为世界各地的国家提供帮助。我们有疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的官员通过自己的专长帮助这些国家，关注这些国家保障本国公民安康的所有需求，从而我们可以恢复世界各地的经济——全球经济——在这场危机结束后重新站起来。
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问：国务卿先生，这些工作人员中有多少冠状病毒检测呈阳性？他们得到检测了吗？他们将隔离吗？如果你要将50,000人撤出国家首都，世界各地国家的首都，这会对海外的外交努力有什么影响？
国务卿蓬佩奥：这50,000人中的绝大多数不是我们的外交官。这些是在那里的普通公民，他们是在出差或者因为商务原因，或者在做人生难得的旅行。我们看到游轮上有这样一些人，但是当然全球各地都有被困住的人。
所以我们的使领馆——除去在武汉，我们将那里的所有人撤离了——我们在全球其他地方的设施都办公。我们有少数人现在检测呈阳性，但是我们感到对此有不错的掌控，我们正在尽一切努力确保不仅国务院官员，而且我们国防部在这些使团工作的同事，都在以减少给他们和他们的健康带来风险的方式工作。
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问：非常感谢。你觉得中国保持——扣住了重要信息不让美国知道吗？这将有任何后果吗？
国务卿蓬佩奥：你知道，这不是一个需要报应的时候，但仍是一个需要明确和透明的时候。我们仍在就这个问题进行努力。这些有能力的人仍然需要数据，以便对如何研发治疗方法和疫苗以及如何了解这个病毒在哪里作出分析。
所以，每个国家，包括中国在内——每个国家都需要对他们国家出现的情况做到透明。他们需要分享这个数据——我们向世界分享了我们的数据——从而让世界上最优秀的科学家能够作出正确的结论，让这个经济，让这个全球经济尽快回到我们所希望的状态。
每个国家都有这个责任。它从中国境内开始，所以他们有特殊责任快速和迅速地正确对待。要询问每一个国家。随着我们未来数日和数周向前推进，确保我们分享这点。要做——要做得正确。要做得好。当我们这样做的时候，我们就会重新起来。
问：但是一开始，他们是否应该更早地与美国分享他们的数据？
国务卿蓬佩奥：所有国家都有责任准确、及时、全面、透明和彻底地分享信息，一经得到信息尽快这样做。我们将等到另外一个时候再评估所有国家做得如何。
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问：你说中国有责任得到正确数字。你如何宽泛地形容现在与中国的合作？
国务卿蓬佩奥：我们一直有许多合作的领域，对吗？他们正在提供我们所需要的帮助。在实地一些地方我们现在确实能够得到我们需要的数据，我们对此深深感谢。
他们说了他们希望合作。我们完全有准备与他们合作。这个合作意味着分享数据，透明，坦率，让信息自由流通。这是我们的期待，不是——但是不是仅对中国——而是对今天在这个处境中的所有国家。
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结束 美东夏令时间晚7:32

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
SECRETARY POMPEO:  Thank you, Mr. President. Under the President’s leadership, my team and I at the State Department are doing our part to protect the American people from the virus and, importantly, to get them home.
As you know, when many countries shut down their rail lines, their buses, their infrastructure systems, the capacity to get out of those countries — they were trapped, they’re stranded — the State Department swung into action.
Since January 29th, we have now repatriated over 50,000 United States citizens back to their homes from more than 90 countries, more than 490 flights back to the United States from all across the world.  This worldwide scale of our repatriation efforts is without parallel in our lifetime.  We are coordinating with foreign governments, militaries, airport authorities, medical units, transportation companies, hotels, you name it.  We’re working with them to make sure the American people get back to be with their families.
You can see, behind me, the map of the flights, that we have brought back people from all across the world.  Every day, I get a chance to hear some of the remarkable stories from our team.  Let me give you just a couple of examples.
Our mission in Peru: Working with the Peruvian military and police forces to send riverboats up the — up the river to get citizens that were stranded deep inside the Amazon forest.…The Repatriation Task Force at State Department, our consular officers have done great work.  I want to thank our partners in the Department of Defense who have helped with some of these flights back home and other government agencies — our sisters and brothers across the United States government in this administration that have helped get these people back.
And then, lastly, aside from our repatriation efforts, we continue to help countries around the world as well.  We’ve got CDC officials helping these countries with expertise and all the things that these countries need to get their citizens safe and healthy and back so that we can get the economy all across the world — the global economy — back on its feet when this crisis is over.
Q    Mr. Secretary, how many of these staffers have tested positive for coronavirus?  Have they been tested?  Are they going into quarantine?  And what does this do to diplomatic efforts overseas if you’re pulling 50,000 people out of state capitals — or national capitals, nation capitals all over the world?
SECRETARY POMPEO:  So the vast majority of these 50,000 weren’t our officers.  These were ordinary citizens who were there, traveling for business or for commercial or for their trip of a lifetime.  We’ve seen some of them in the cruise ships, but of course they’re stranded all over the world.
So our embassies — save for the one that is in Wuhan, which we did pull everybody out of — the rest of our facilities around the world are all open.  We’ve had a handful of our folks now test positive, but we feel like we have a good handle on it and we’re doing everything we can to make sure that not just the State Department officials, but our Department of Defense colleagues that are working on these missions as well are doing so in a way that reduces risk to them and their wellbeing also.
Q    Thank you so much.  Do you feel like China held — withheld critical information from the United States?  And will there be any consequences for that?
SECRETARY POMPEO:  You know, this is not the time for retribution, but it is still the time for clarity and transparency.  We’re still working on this problem set.  There’s still data that these good people need so that they can perform their analysis of how to both develop therapeutics and a vaccine and to understand where this virus is.
So, every country, China included — every country needs to be transparent about what’s gone on in their country.  They need to share that data — we share ours with the world — so that the best scientists in the world can get to the right conclusions and bring this economy, this global economy back to the place that we all want it to be as quickly as we can.
Every country has that responsibility.  It started in China, and so they had that special responsibility to get it right quickly and fast.  Ask every country.  As we move forward in the days and weeks ahead, make sure we share that.  Do it — do it right.  Do it well.  And when we do, we’ll get this thing back on.
Q    But early on, should they have shared their data sooner with the United States?
SECRETARY POMPEO:  Every country has an obligation to share that information accurately, timely, completely, transparently, and thoroughly, just as quickly as they can gather it.  We’ll leave for another time to evaluate how everyone did in that.
Q    You said that China has a responsibility to get correct figures.  How would you broadly characterize cooperation with China right now?
SECRETARY POMPEO:  There’s lots of places we’ve been cooperating, right?  They’re providing us assistance where we need it.  There are places on the ground now where we do have access to the data we need, and we’re deeply appreciative of that.
They’ve said they want to cooperate.  We’re completely prepared to cooperate with them.  That cooperation means sharing data, being transparent, being upfront, allowing information to flow freely.  That’s our expectation, not — not just of China, though — of every country that is in this place today.