The way I read it, it was drafted by a lawyer (prob. not the director of communications himself) as a sort of safe statement. It doesn't admit anything, makes

The way I read it, it was drafted by a lawyer (prob. not the director of communications himself) as a sort of safe statement. It doesn't admit anything, makes no promises about the future, and simply makes assertions to hopefully prevent people from further talking about it. It reads far more like what a lawyer would write than what a PR company would write.