Chapter 756: Do you think you are still the empire on which the sun never sets?
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The sun shone unearthfully into Qusay's office, and in this large room, Qusay met with visiting British Energy Secretary Webb and the British chargé d'affaires. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info≦≧..
Although Weber was a little unhappy because he was delayed for a few days before receiving the meeting, Weber still made a diplomatic smile.
"Mr. Webb is very welcome to Iraq, because he is very busy, so he has not taken the opportunity to meet with the two of you until now, and he has had a good time in Baghdad these days, right?" Qusay asked.
Play? I, the head of an important British department, am busy with official business every day, and I dragged on here for a few days just to come to Iraq to see the scenery? Weber cursed in his heart, but said: "Yes, Iraq is a good place, but the scenery by the sea is not as good as the beaches of Lebanon." ”
The beaches of Lebanon, which are full of beautiful women in three-point swimsuits, are rich in beautiful women, this sentence, if it is said in Saudi Arabia, it is definitely disrespectful, for Saudi Arabia, which has strict laws, it is illegal to show more skin, but Iraq is relatively much more open, for example, in Iraq, it is allowed for women to work as normally as men and women. ≦≧ the most open in the Middle East is probably Lebanon.
"Our tourism industry in Iraq has not yet been developed, and all you can see on the seashore now is cargo ships and oil tankers coming and going." Qusay said.
"Your country is a big oil exporter, so most of the ships sailing on the sea are oil tankers, but your recent sea crude oil transportation is too frequent, right?" Weber said: "Your oil exports have almost doubled, has such a large-scale oil export caused a certain impact on the world's crude oil export market?" ”
"Impact?" Qusay was taken aback: "How is this possible? We are doing this in response to the call of the United States, which is now too high in the world oil market, and this high oil price has had a great impact on the world economy. Therefore, we are doing this just to restore the world oil price to a reasonable level, and the United States is very satisfied with our production increase and price increase, and now we are cooperating with the United States in various aspects. The United States also agreed. Export-3 pre-jing machine to us. ”
Qusay was not at all pro-American, however, this operation. ≦≧ too much for Reagan zhèngfu to feel surprised and satisfied, so, subconsciously. They felt that Qusay was still teachable, so the United States and Iraq once again ushered in a short honeymoon period.
The previous unpleasantness was caused by the sè column, because Iraq wanted to be the boss of the Middle East, so it had to maintain a fighting posture against the alien race with the sè column, and put aside the sè column. Qusay still attaches great importance to relations with the United States, and many people in the top echelons of the United States have formed this kind of thinking.
Since Qusay stepped onto the stage of history, he has maintained good relations with the United States, except for those few incidents, which have caused many people to temporarily relax their anticipation of Iraq.
between countries, the most important. Iraq is willing to sacrifice its own interests and increase oil production to reduce oil prices to a level that they very welcome, and from this point of view, it proves that Iraq still listens to the United States. Many people think so.
Now, Qusay is keeping his mouth shut about the United States. ≦≧ so, purely to gag the British, see what they say!
"President Qusay." Weber looked at the person in front of him and knew that the other party was not easy to deal with, so he had to continue: "Now, the oil price is a little too low, in this way, your country, and other OPEC members export a lot of oil at the same time, reduce their own oil revenue, which is very unfavorable to your economy, we have made an estimate, your country has increased production in the past few months, the income has not increased, but reduced billions of dollars of income, more oil exported, but less income, so for your country, it seems that there is no benefit, right?" ”
"This is what we should do in order to contribute to the world economy, and we are willing to bear these losses." Qusay said.
To put it bluntly, Weber finally decided that he should go straight to the point: "President Qusay, however, the world oil prices are so low, we in Britain have suffered a lot of losses, such low oil prices, for our British oil industry, is very harmful, your country is doing this, to the detriment of the interests of all oil exporting countries." Therefore, I express to you a very serious protest and hope that the Iraqi side will eliminate the share of the increase in production and return to the original production! ”
Anyway, after talking for a long time, in the end, I still have to go around this issue, and Soxing Weber said it directly, Iraq is doing this, it is simply harming others and not benefiting itself, especially the British oil industry, which has suffered a lot of losses. ≦≧
At present, the international oil price has dropped to 16 US dollars per barrel, and the British oil companies are now almost in vain, and no amount of crude oil is produced, without any profit, so the oil dumping of OPEC countries has seriously disrupted the market order and made the British oil industry face a serious practical problem.
It is also reasonable to say that this is for the development of the world economy, and that Qusai will be so stupid? He must have had some other purpose!
This purpose is to hit the British oil industry! Now, Margaret Thatcher has decided that Iraq is retaliating for the British for seizing one of their spies, and that Qusay is simply a hooligan! For the sake of such a spy, he actually united all OPEC countries and did not hesitate to use large-scale oil production and price reductions to make Britain bow its head!
"Really?" Qusay pretended to be very surprised: "You mean that we are contributing to the world economy while hurting your country's interests?" ”
"Yes, for all oil-producing countries, there is a lot of damage. ≦≧," Webb said. Hearing Qusay's tone, Weber thought that President Qusay was going to compromise, which was a little surprising.
"I didn't expect that your country had made such a big sacrifice for the development of the world economy, and Switzerland had already expected to award me this year's Nobel Prize in Economics. Qusay said.
The Nobel Prize in Economics is not one of the five major areas of award mentioned in Nobel's will, but was added by the Bank of Sweden in 1968 to commemorate the Nobel Prize, and the full name is "In Memory of the Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics of the Bank of Sweden." The prize is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in accordance with the principle of "contributing to the best interests of humanity".
Because the Arab countries have increased production and reduced prices, so that the world has enjoyed low oil prices, and the economy has also been greatly improved, so Iraq, which has made outstanding contributions, and because Iraq has signed a large number of contract projects with Sweden, the Swedish side is ready to award this award to Qusay.
Now, Qusay has decided to give this award to Britain, which has also made outstanding contributions to the development of the world economy.
Who wants that prize of 1 million Swiss kroner! Hearing that Qusay fooled him like this, Weber finally couldn't hold it back: "President Qusay, I repeat once again, you need to end the current move to increase production and return to normal production!" This is the most beneficial for the development of the world economy, especially for safeguarding the interests of all oil-producing countries, and now, the world's oil prices are too low, for us in Britain, it is a serious damage to our British oil industry, which belongs to malicious competition! ”
"Really?" Kusai looked at this guy who was enraged, but what he said was so ridiculous, do you think that he is still the former empire?
"Yesterday afternoon, I just inspected our shipyard next to the port of Saddam, our shipyard has just started, the cost of producing ships is very high, we have not received a single order, because your country's shipbuilding industry is very developed, and there are many ships built, and the tonnage is very large, which has seriously damaged our own shipbuilding industry in Iraq. These words, said Kusai, are simply a copy of Weber's words.
"How is that possible, our shipbuilding industry is developed by ourselves, and the cost and sale price of ships is entirely our own domestic affair, what does it have to do with Iraq? Why do you want us to build less ships and raise the price? This is interference in the economy of our country! Webb almost screamed.
"Yes, in the same way, our oil industry is our own, and the amount of oil produced and exported is controlled by ourselves, or rather, coordinated by OPEC, what does this have to do with your country? You are interfering in the economy of our country! Qusay said.
In an instant, Weber's face became quite ugly, and from the bottom of his heart, he really wanted to wave his sleeves immediately at this moment, and the person in front of him could not negotiate at all, but, thinking of the purpose of coming here, he still held back.
"President Qusay, then, what do you need to do to end this operation?" Webb asked. From the bottom of his heart, he felt that if he used that spy in exchange for the rise in oil prices, the British would grit their teeth and admit it.
Who knows, Qusay didn't mention the spy at all, because, if the spy didn't mention it, the British would have to release it back! That's just an add-on.
"Recently, because of your country's diplomatic positioning, there has been a lot of friction with Iraq, and I am very sorry for this." "We both need to be genuine. ”
If others say that, Weber still believes it, but if Qusay says it, he won't believe it anymore and be sincere? To hell with it! (The domain name has been changed to: . )