In front of the presidential palace in Islamabad, journalists from all over the world lined up in front of the south gate of the presidential palace.

Zheng Xing, who was originally a correspondent of China ** TV in Somalia, has now become a well-known war correspondent, and he can be seen in every war that Somalia has participated in, and many Somali military operations have been disclosed to the public for the first time.

Li Lan visited Pakistan, and he had just retired from the battlefield in Kenya, and he rushed to Islamabad as soon as possible, because he was not only a war correspondent stationed abroad, but also the only foreign correspondent who could meet Li Lan face to face at close range.

Li Lan's important diplomatic work, he can shoot at close range, because of the time schedule, he did not follow Li Lan's team to Moscow, Li Lan's first offense in Pakistan, he did not want to miss it.

However, when he arrived in Islamabad, the public talks between the two countries had already passed, and after a hasty lunch, he hurried to the presidential palace, because there was still the most important signing ceremony in the afternoon, and the agreement that was finalized in the morning meeting would be signed in the afternoon.

Having missed half of the highlights, he was not in the mood to enjoy Pakistani food, and all his thoughts were to record the signing ceremony in the afternoon.

When he arrived at the presidential palace, the reporters were already in a long queue, hurriedly handed over their cameras to the staff of the presidential palace, and then walked to the back of the line and took out his press card and invitation letter.

Along the way, he doesn't know how many times he took out his documents and got here from Islamabad airport. The road is full of roadblocks, checkpoints, and five steps and one post. Ten steps and one sentry, repeated checks. After several turns.

In front of the gate of the presidential palace, there is a stricter check, and as for the cameras, the cameras, as well as electronic equipment, must be brought into the venue by the staff, and then help the reporters to be placed in a fixed position, and after the interview, the staff will return the cameras to them.

Rules like this are pretty much the same everywhere, especially in the Middle East. Journalists will face stricter checks and more security steps.

At half past one in the afternoon, when the time to enter the field arrived, the soldiers of the Pakistani Interior Army in front of the gate began to check the documents and let them go.

Zheng Xing, who was in the queue, roughly counted the signing ceremony, which attracted nearly 80 reporters, which is about the same number as he guessed, because it was not an ordinary signing ceremony, and after the signing ceremony, the two heads of state would answer questions from reporters on the spot. than the signing ceremony. The real newsworthiness is during the reporter Q&A that follows.

The speed of the inspection was not slow, and when it was Zheng Xing's turn, less than ten minutes had passed.

As the team walked to the door, Zheng Xing took out his passport and invitation letter. The oncoming Pakistani internal security soldiers took out the bottom sheet, and the soldiers on the side compared the number of computers and double-checked. Check them one by one, after confirming that they are correct. Zheng Xing walked into the gate of the presidential palace and walked past the metal detector. After a full body search, he was able to walk towards his position.

Slowly pacing in the presidential palace, Zheng Xing looked at the layout of the presidential palace in detail, he had heard the seniors introduce the presidential palace of Pakistan is a very beautiful place, and he doesn't know when he can come over next time, he doesn't want to come in a hurry but has no impression.

Everywhere you look, the buildings of the presidential palace are light and elegant, and there is no vulgar atmosphere. It is a grand complex of rectangular buildings with three levels overlapped, and the external outline is dominated by straight lines and rectangles, with almost no arcs and circles. In terms of length, width, and height, the lower layer is the largest, the second level, and the third layer is second. The door opening of the house gate is rectangular, about seven or eight meters high, about two or three meters wide, about three or four meters deep, and the end of the door hole is the gate.

The interior of the Presidential Palace is magnificent and gorgeous, and it suddenly gives people a sense of extraordinary grandeur of the imperial palace. The hall is about fifty or sixty meters long on the left and right, about thirty or forty meters wide at the front and back, and about twenty or thirty meters high at the top and bottom. There are chandeliers on the ceiling, carpets on the floor, and portraits on the walls. On the left wall hang portraits of past presidents, each with a brief text underneath.

Among these portraits is Pervez. Musharraf's. Musharraf was the president of Pakistan, chief of the army staff, with the rank of general, and was a well-known politician. Five years ago, the Pakistan Anti-Terrorism Court issued an arrest warrant for him, alleging that he was involved in the fight against Prime Minister Benazir. Bhutto's assassination.

Last year, he returned home from four years of "self-exile" to run in the congressional election, but was arrested and will face exile. Interestingly, the portrait of such a failed hero is also hung on the wall of the presidential palace as a former president, which somewhat reflects the values of Pakistani culture that do not judge heroes by success or failure, and comment objectively and impartially on a person.

In the middle of the left side of the presidential palace hall, there is another large gate, about 4 meters high and 3 meters wide. Walk through the gate and enter another large, tall rectangular hall. On the left hand side of the entrance is a rectangular podium, about one or two hundred square meters, with carpet and a few chairs, and under the podium are movable chairs. On the wall of the right hand of the entrance gate, not against the door, hangs the father of Pakistan. Ali. Jinnah's huge oil portrait is solemn and solemn. It looks like a lecture hall or lecture hall.

In the center of the lobby of the Presidential Palace, about a dozen cameras have been set up along the area between the main entrance and the main entrance, and the cameras are facing the left. About 10 meters away, the camera is facing a table with miniature flags of the two countries and two brown and black leather chairs behind it.

On the side, a person Zheng Xing didn't know pointed to the table in the distance and whispered to another person: "Wait a while, the Soba cooperation agreement will be signed there." ”

More than 10 meters behind the camera, there are two podiums for standing speeches, on which microphones have been set up, presumably prepared for Li Lan and Hu Saien to meet with reporters after attending the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement.

When Zheng Xing entered the hall, there were already about one or two hundred people inside, and there were still people coming in and out of the main entrance. But it looks like more people are coming in. Go out a little less. Among the one or two hundred people in the hall were journalists, officials, staff, guards. These are easy to identify initially and simply from the appearance.

After seeing so many people of all kinds, Zheng Xing couldn't help but think that among these two hundred people, it is estimated that there are also intelligence personnel from various countries who use various identities as covers, which is difficult to make scientific and accurate identification from the appearance.

Among the crowds, the most eye-catching are the uniformed Pakistani guards. Behind the desk, which was to be used for the signing of the Soba cooperation agreement, stood two guards, about 180 centimeters tall, tall and burly. The air is high-spirited, bronzed, white uniform, holding a long javelin, and the head of the javelin is decorated with small flags and feathers, which has strong national characteristics. The guards stood with javelins, their bodies straight, solemn and elegant, and their eyes did not squint. Motionless.

When the time came, the main entrance of the hall slowly opened, and the figures of Li Lan and Hussein stepped on the red carpet at the same time and sat down at the table at one time.

After the signing ceremony began. The staff of both sides began to put the contracts in front of the two of them, and after signing them, the two sides held the contracts in front of the major media.

The signing process was not carried out very quickly, with dozens of officially printed contracts. It was almost an hour before the signing of the contract, waiting for the last contract. It is also about the shipbuilding base After the signing of this most critical contract, Zheng Xing can clearly feel the various changes of the people around him.

Those who rejoice have. There are those who are worried, and there are those who gloat inexplicably.

As for Zheng Xing himself, he was still quite happy, because he knew a little bit that his country had spent a lot of thought in the negotiations of this shipbuilding base a long time ago, and today this contract was finally signed, and the country's purpose was achieved. And he also knew that it was his own country that really funded the construction of this shipbuilding base.

He did not know the significance of the state's arrangement, and why Pakistan had placed such a costly shipbuilding base, but he understood that the national strategy was not child's play, nor could it be emotional, and that it was inevitably related to the country's strategy.

The signing of the last contract means that the time for reporters to ask questions has arrived.

After the staff took the contract down, someone announced that the time for reporters to ask questions would begin, and reporters with questions could raise their hands to ask questions.

Almost all the reporters raised their arms at the first time, and the reporters designated by the staff spoke up.

After the first few questions, the next few questions quickly pointed to Kenya and Uganda and the sanctions imposed on Somalia by the United Nations in response to the war on Somalia.

Hussein is naturally on Li Lan's side, and Li Lan, who is facing this kind of problem, can only continue to emphasize: "The dispatch of troops to South Sudan is not to attack Uganda, this time South Sudan is led by South Sudan to conduct a trilateral joint anti-terrorism exercise on the border between South Sudan and Uganda, and we are also training the long-distance training ability of the troops by the way, as for the warning of the Somali Ministry of Defense to Uganda, it is just that the language of the Ministry of Defense is excessive, and on the way to Pakistan, I have already had a telephone exchange with the President of Uganda, The friendship between the two sides has been greatly deepened, and Mr. President Museveni has also invited our Defence Force troops to travel to Uganda, and I have also asked Uganda to send a military team to Somalia in order to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation between the two countries.

Somalia is an African country, and on the issue of African integration, the principle will never change, and we resolutely oppose the long-cherished wish of foreign forces to interfere with Africa's integration process and prevent Africa from moving towards peace. Somalia has always been a friend of Africa, and President Museveni is willing to treat Somalia as a friend.

In this military exercise, I also want to seek a solution to some of the problems between South Sudan and Uganda and strengthen the harmonious relations between neighboring countries. For all kinds of speculation from the outside world, I can only say that I stand on others. I have heard enough similar remarks, and I hope that the media around the world can be more objective and seek more verification when publishing articles. Don't lose the integrity of your journalism for the sake of attracting attention. ”

Zheng Xing in the audience looked at Li Lan and talked, and he admired it a little in his heart, he and Li Lan are also old acquaintances, and he has done many exclusive interviews with Li Lan alone in the past few years, and his friendship is not bad.

Looking at Li Lan, who has been calling for wind and rain on the political stage in the past few years, he has seen growth, or more like a politician, and he really admires it in his heart. It is not that I admire Li Lan's means and power, but that I admire his easy-going and constant demands on himself when he leaves the political stage.

On the stage, Li Lan's answer continued: "The United Nations is an organization for all countries in the world to jointly resolve problems, and once it becomes a tool in the hands of others, then there really is not much need for the United Nations to exist, because it has lost its significance, which is why it will lose its binding force."

For a long time, Western countries have not stopped sanctions against Somalia, and the United Nations has issued a sanctions resolution on Somalia, which does not have much impact on Somalia, because there are still many countries that are dissatisfied with the United Nations resolutions in recent years and are not satisfied that it has become a political tool in the hands of others, otherwise Somalia would not have so many friends now. Right or wrong, there are naturally eyes watching, not saying what is what. ”

As Li Lan finished answering, the next question soon followed, and the two people on the stage still answered each other fluently, and some of the Western media naturally couldn't avoid a little difficulty when asking questions, but none of these were difficult to disappoint the two of them.

Zheng Xing didn't raise his hand, but listened attentively to the appearance of one question after another, listened to the answers of the two people on the stage, and recorded important information.

Soon, some of the questions that everyone was more concerned about were asked, and Zheng Xing stopped recording and raised his right hand, just as he was also pointed.

Pulling down the corner of his clothes slightly, Zheng Xing took the microphone handed over by the staff, looked at Li Lan in front of him and asked: "Dear President Li Lan, in fact, my question is very simple, and it also involves the president's privacy. Excuse me, who is the little girl who took the first lady off the plane before? ”

"Her name is Sally, and she is my daughter, and an old man entrusted Sally to General Tanya in the last hours of his life, and I saw that she was very well-behaved, and I cherished her." Li Lan, who was on the stage, smiled at Zheng Xing and replied. (To be continued......)