美国国务院发言人内德·普赖斯举行任内最后一次面对面每日记者会

在2023年3月7日发布的一份声明中，布林肯国务卿宣布，内德·普赖斯将于本月卸任美国国务院发言人一职。

#伯恩斯大使#在推特上说，“国务院发言人普赖斯就要离职了，我要恭喜他在国务院演讲台上杰出的表现。身为前发言人，我钦佩他为了推进我们的公共外交，所做的一切。”

发言人内德·普赖斯在推特上说，“[3月13日]是我最后一次面对面记者会。站在台上的只有一个人，但召开记者会需要其他许多人的协助。感谢我的同事们的团队合作，感谢每天提出棘手和必要问题的记者们。能有这个机会，我不胜感激。”

2023年3月13日，内德·普赖斯举行了他作为美国国务院发言人的最后一次面对面每日记者会。内德在任期间举行了200多场记者会，为世界各地的人们提供了准确、及时的信息。感谢你的服务，内德。

美国国务院发言人内德·普赖斯表示......

2023年3月13日国务院新闻发布会的开场中，发言人内德·普赖斯的评论要点摘录如下: 

普赖斯先生：下午好。今天要请各位有一点耐心，我开场只有七八件事要讲。

没有啦，其实我只有一件事要讲。就像各位当中许多人可能已经猜到的，这将是我最后一次在镜头前做简报。所以，我想占用大家一点时间，用几分钟来谈谈离别之际的一些想法。

在思考我要说些什么的时候，我回忆了一下我在2021年2月2日的首场记者会。这让我意识到过去几年发生了多少变化。

首先，那场记者会只有38分钟长。（笑声）你们能想象吗？我知道你们中有很多人都怀念那些日子。

还有这些事也都变了：你们大家那时都如此的礼貌，你们那时会介绍一下自己，你们那时会把自己的提问数量限制在一个，要追问也会很审慎。那之后我一直怀念那些日子。

而现在，看看这间屋子，现在的人数比2021年2月2日要多得多。这也许和我们取消了因新冠疫情而采取的人数限制有关。但是，我也说了，这是我最后一次做简报，所以就让我暂且认为，这更多是因为要让这间屋子成为报道对外政策的记者该来的地方。

请在文字实录上写“此处无笑声”。非常好。（笑声）

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此次新闻发布会全文：https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-march-13-2023/ 

U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price Delivers His Final In-Person Daily Press Briefing

In a statement released on March 7, 2023, Secretary Blinken announced that this month, Ned Price will step down as the State Department’s Spokesperson.

Ambassador Burns said on Twitter, "As @StateDeptSPOX Price steps down, I send my congrats for his stellar work at the @StateDept podium.  As a former spokesperson, I admire all he’s done to advance our public diplomacy."

Spokesperson Ned Price said on Twitter," [March 13] was my final in-person press briefing. One person stands at the podium, but briefing requires assistance from many more. Thanks to my colleagues for the teamwork and to the reporters who ask tough and necessary questions every day. I’m grateful to have had this opportunity."

On March 13, 2023, Ned Price delivered his last in-person daily press briefing as the Department’s spokesperson. During his tenure, Ned conducted more than 200 briefings – providing people around the world with accurate, timely information. Thank you for your service, Ned. 

U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price says...

At the top of the March 13, 2023 Department of State Press Briefing, Spokesperson Ned Price comments included the following excerpted points…

MR PRICE: Good afternoon. Now, if you’ll bear with me, I have only seven or eight toppers to get through today.

No, actually, I only have one. As many of you may have surmised, this will be my last on-camera briefing. And so, with your forbearance, I want to spend just a couple minutes offering some parting thoughts.

As I was thinking about what to say, I took a look back at my first briefing on February 2nd of 2021. I realized in doing so just how much has changed over the past couple of years.

First, that briefing was only 38 minutes long. (Laughter.) Could you imagine? I know many of you have pined for those days.

Here’s what else has changed: You were all so polite, you were introducing yourselves, you were limiting yourselves to a single question, to being judicious with follow-ups. I’ve since pined for those days.

And looking out on this room now, there are now many more of you than there were on February 2nd of 2021. Now, perhaps that has something to do with the fact that we’ve lifted the COVID capacity limits. But, again, it’s my last briefing, so let me think for just a moment that it has more to do with making this room the place to be for foreign policy reporters.

Let the transcript reflect there was no laughter. That’s great. (Laughter.)

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For full transcripts of this press release: https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-march-13-2023/