Chapter 315: Negotiations
Time to rewind more than 1 hour money, Male.
Ambassador Rama and others were like ants on a hot pot outside the residence of the Minister of Home Affairs, and he was ordered to visit the Minister of the Interior of the Maldives, Hassan Mooy, late at night, and asked Minister Mooy to send a rescue team to rescue his citizens who had been lost on a desert island due to their lost flights.
After waiting for more than half an hour, the guards at Mooy's residence finally opened the door and invited Ambassador Rama in.
"Ambassador Rama, do you know what time it is?" Minister Mooy said with a dark face that anyone who was shouted from his sleep after 1 o'clock in the middle of the night would not feel good. If Ambassador Rama had not been a powerful neighbor to the north, Minister Mooy would not have dumped him at all.
But even so, Minister Mooy made no secret of his unhappiness.
Although the Maldives is a small country, as a dignified Minister of Home Affairs, it is not a role that can be arbitrarily directed in the land of the Maldives.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Mooy, but it's a bit urgent." Rama knew of course that it would be rude to call people up like this, but the domestic instructions were urgent, and it was two elites of the navy who had fallen on the small island of Duke, although Ambassador Rama did not know why they were on someone else's private island.
But Ambassador Rama knew that if the two men were caught by their bodyguards or guards, they would be at risk of being destroyed.
Not many of those rich people are kind-hearted, and people who sneak up on the island like this don't ask if they have a bad heart, either come to kidnap or do other illegal things, and it's strange that they don't throw them into the sea to feed the sharks after they are caught. Although the Maldives is a country of projectiles, its sea area is almost 100,000 square kilometers, and it is impossible to cover such a large sea area with their internal guard force of more than 1,000 people.
With the exception of those important islands with permanent internal guards, the other islands were largely undefended. So it's all too easy to throw a few people into the sea on a deserted island.
"Two lost citizens of our country have now strayed into Rakhsf Island, and have had a misunderstanding with the owner of the island, and their lives are now in danger, please ask Minister Mooy to send someone to rescue them as soon as possible," Ambassador Rama said briefly.
"Trek? Mr. Rama, Rahesf Island is the private island of billionaire Dr. Duke, they have good navigation and sea communication skills, if they are lost, I believe they will send your citizens to the right place," said Minister Mooy with a smile, as to whether this suitable place is in the mouth of a Male or a shark, to be honest, Mooy does not care at all.
This northern neighbor has always acted somewhat unscrupulously, and it is not once or twice that he has entered his own waters for no reason, and this time he does not know what the reason for entering his own waters, and he has also penetrated more than 200 kilometers into his own waters to the island of Rakhsf.
Originally, this was an unknown desert island, but after being bought by a rich man, he built villas and other facilities, and for some reason he actually resold it to Mr. Duke, the world's new super-rich man, so as Duke's popularity grew, and now the island has become very well-known within the Maldivian government, and as the Minister of Home Affairs, Mooy certainly knows the situation on the island.
Duke signed an investment agreement with the Maldivian government to build a machine processing plant on the island of Rahsf, with a commitment of at least $100 million per year. For the Maldives, whose annual GDP is only a few hundred million dollars, this is a big deal.
Rahsf Island is far away from the famous tourist island belt of the Maldives, due to the distance from MalΓ©, the development of a tourist island is inconvenient and costly, coupled with its small area, it cannot accommodate residents, it has been so deserted, and finally attracted a rich man like Duke who is willing to invest in the development of industry, and the Maldives government is naturally very supportive.
In addition, Dr. Duke promised that the factory would establish a complete processing waste liquid collection system, all processed waste liquid would be collected and transported out of the Maldives for disposal, and the electricity supply would be all non-polluting new energy sources such as wind and solar energy, and promised that the Maldivian authorities would conduct a survey of the surrounding environment every three months, which completely reassured the Maldivian authorities.
Tourism is now their mainstay and few countries in the world take environmental protection more seriously than the Maldivian authorities.
Now this northern neighbor actually ran to someone's territory, and he deserved to be caught and thrown into the sea. Although Mooy thought so, he continued: "If we haven't sent people here at dawn, we will send someone to the island to check on and see what is going on, but they are just fishermen who are lost in the sea, and I believe that the people on the island of Rakusf will be very entertaining to them." β
After saying that, Mooy stood up and saw off the guest.
Dawn? Ambassador Rama's head has suddenly grown a lot, and at that time, I am afraid that there is not even any scum left. Who will be able to prove that they have been there when the time comes. Although Ambassador Rama did not know why two elite members of the Navy had gone to that private island, according to the information he had received, it was nothing more than a private resort island for the Chinese tycoon, and it was now said that a machine shop was being built.
It's just that because the workers are all from within China, Rama really has no way to find out what kind of factories they are building.
But these are not the point, the point is that the domestic instructions must be to rescue the two people who went to the island.
"Mr. Mooy," said Ambassador Rama hurriedly, not wanting to disturb Mooy in the middle of the night if he could wait until dawn. "Well, the citizens of our country sent a message that the people on the island were very unfriendly to them, and that they were afraid that they would be in danger of dying after a long time. Human life is at stake, so please ask Mr. Mooy to send someone to rescue him immediately. β
In that place where there is no mobile phone signal, you can still send out the message, and alert the ambassador to the rescue in the middle of the night, if there is nothing greasy in the middle, you really think that I Mooy is an idiot. Seeing that Ambassador Rama was anxious, Mooy felt more and more that there was something strange in the middle, could it be that this northern neighbor had some ill intentions towards Dr. Duke?
As soon as Mooy thought of this possibility, his head couldn't help but be shocked, and the remaining randomness suddenly ran out of the clouds, Dr. Duke made so many inventions, for this neighbor in the north, everything is something they don't have, if they are really kidnapped in the past, this value is really not small, but if Dr. Duke is kidnapped in the Maldives, and then he is sandwiched between the two big countries, it is not a joke.
Thinking of this, Mooy's face couldn't help but become gloomy. "Ambassador Rama, Rakhsf Island is not close to your country, nor is it the closest island to your country, I wonder who these two citizens of your country are, and for what reason they are living on Rakhsf Island?"
In the Maldives, the relationship between the two giants, the northern neighbor and China, is now divided into two factions, and some people, mainly the vice president, tend to fully tilt towards the northern neighbor, which is considered from a geographical perspective, but the other faction, led by the president and the interior minister, tends to be neutral, especially the interior minister, Mooy, who is very repulsive to the one-sided strategy.
The reason is simple, the largest number of tourists are from China, almost a quarter of the tourists are from China, and more and more every year, for the Maldives except for the natural scenery, everything else is lackluster, so there is almost no choice but to vigorously develop tourism, in this general direction of national development, Mooy is inclined to pragmatism.
More importantly, the northern neighbor is now interfering more and more in the country, and even sent troops to interfere in the change of regime in the past few years.
As an island country in the Indian Ocean, the strategic location of the Maldives has become more and more important with the east-west shipping and the Indian Ocean strategy of the northern neighbors.
Looking at Mooy's suspicious and dissatisfied face, Rama cursed in his heart, these guys in the country don't know what to do, if you tell the truth, the people from the navy have now arrived on Rakhsfu Island, and they don't know how the other party will react.
Rama has been an ambassador in the Maldives for several years, and of course he is well aware of the political situation in the Maldives, knowing that Mooy is very uninterested in his own country and has always been very sensitive to possible military intervention in the country.
However, to send a patrol to the rescue, in addition to the president, the only way to find Mooy, the Minister of the Interior, but looking at the current situation, it is obviously difficult to persuade Mooy to send a maritime patrol immediately if the matter is not serious.
"Well, Mr. Mooy, in fact, these two Chinese citizens are secret police who hunt down arms smugglers, and they were inadvertently brought into your country by arms smugglers, and they were lost on the island of Rakhsf, and now the situation is very urgent, please Mr. Mooy, consider the special relationship between our two countries, which has always been close, and send a maritime patrol as soon as possible to rescue our citizens."
Although it is very inappropriate for the police to enter the other country's country without warning, it is much less impactful than the entry of military personnel, and Rama can come up with this excuse in an instant, which can be regarded as a quick person.
Of course, Mooy doesn't believe such an excuse, but there is a sentence that Rama said well, even if Mooy is very unhappy, but the relationship between the two countries is indeed special, and Rama said this, and Mooy is not good to move.