Frankly, I kind of feel like you’re looking awfully hard for a way to stir shit.
We use news articles all the time reporting statements from governments; there’s certainly no requirement to only use primary sources. If any news source would be acceptable as a secondary source to report a government’s statements, I’d think BBC in the UK, DW in Germany, France24 in France, or RFE/RL in the US would be the one you’d use.
And I don’t see what this business about two parties has to do with the matter.