But Kysliak is an ambassador, and chooses his words very carefully.  Especially, for a non native speaker, there is a heightened sense of meaning of words.   bewail, lament, give up for lost  Interesting difference between to bewail/ lament or to give up for lost, is it not? As an inside joke: give up for lost indeed would put his remark in a very special light.  But since I am not familiar with the person Kysliak, I cannot guess as to what he was up to. In that sense the conversations were a bit too professionally kind and the sections that moved into a humoristic domain, were not actually represented.