persona non grata
BBCがテイン・セイン大統領との単独会見の模様を掲載しています。インタビューにあたったスティーブン・サッカー氏の大統領評です。
persona non grata、すなわち、unacceptable personは外交用語で、「好ましからざる人物」を意味します。その人物が民衆がのぞむのであれば、スーチー女史が大当郎になってもかまわないと明言しました。独裁政治から180度の転換にメディアも注目しています。（UG）
Burma's Thein Sein 'would accept Suu Kyi as president'
Stephen Sackur
Presenter, BBC HARDtalk
For a man who was persona non grata in the US until last week, President U Thein Sein has been looking remarkably relaxed in New York City.
Admittedly I met him in the confines of a swanky Manhattan hotel, surrounded by an entourage of advisers and minders, but nonetheless this former stalwart of Burma's military dictatorship is clearly relishing his rebirth as an unlikely champion of reform.
He even managed a smile for his interrogator from the BBC. All those years spent vilifying the evil and imperialist western media appear to have been forgotten.
In person Thein Sein lacks the charisma of the Nobel laureate democracy activist Aung San Su Kyi, but his role in Burma's political re-awakening is as important as hers. Indeed the two of them appear to recognise they need each other.
