After several rounds of presentations, the meeting went into a lunch break. The delegates took their materials and walked to the restaurant one after another. Liang Jing once mentioned to Chen Ying that this was the only benefit of participating in this event. When they came to the corridor, Chen Ying found that many of the girls who came to participate in the event were wearing makeup, they were not afraid of the cold, they were wearing suit skirts, thick stockings on the lower half of their legs, and high heels several centimeters high on their feet sounded loudly on the steps.

The crowd passed around a corner and went down half a flight of stairs to the restaurant. The conditions here are much better than those in the student cafeteria, with plates of buffets on the white countertop, and all kinds of Western and Chinese food. Chen Ying picked up a dinner plate, followed the flow of people, took herself a stack of vegetarian dishes, a chicken leg and a bowl of porridge, and found a corner to sit down.

"There's no one sitting next to you, right?" The boy who was sitting next to her suddenly took up the place next to her. He filled a plate of pasta and clutched two meat buns in his hands.

"You may be seated." Chen Ying said and looked at his name tag, which clearly read: Rwanda.

"Didn't expect that, did you?" He noticed that Chen Ying was looking at his badge, and also looked down, "I don't know how I ended up in this country." ”

"Isn't it good?" Chen Ying asked while eating.

"There's nothing wrong with it, it's just that I knew too little about it before." He stirred the noodles with chopsticks and spread the tomato sauce evenly, "In order to participate in this event, I had to make up for it." After the lottery, I didn't do anything else for a few days, and spent my days in the library studying the history and cultural development of the country. ”

"Me too." Chen Ying said with a smile.

"You are really lucky to draw Denmark, after all, the development of European countries used to dominate the world, and many civilizations have been in the same vein from ancient times to the present day, and although there have been many wars, they have always maintained a leading position in social development. But African countries are very different," he continued, sipping a cola, "and the natural environment was already very harsh, and after the slave trade and colonial rule, many cultures have now disappeared. It is also politically unstable, with wars and coups d'état occurring frequently, and it is difficult to develop even if the international community provides a large amount of assistance every year. ”

"That's right. Do you regret that you didn't draw in the UK or the US? ”

"A little bit at the beginning." "After all, we know far more about the developed countries than about the developing countries – especially the extremely poor and backward ones, and many people may not be willing to care about the situation in these places," he admits frankly. I also felt a little reluctant when I started Yajurwanda, because the country was small and poor, and it didn't have much influence in the international community, and it was really a bit boring to be a representative of this country......"

"In fact, Denmark's influence in Europe is relatively limited." Chen Ying pondered, "After all, it is a very small country, with a population of only more than 6 million, a very small territory, and a strong Germany. ”

"That's why it's said that 'a weak country has no diplomacy.'"

"That's why we will participate in the EU and expand our influence." Chen Ying corrected him.

"Anyway, I feel like I've learned a lot." "The more I study the history of the country I represent, the more I understand the international community today, and the more glad I am that this event is just a 'mock meeting' and that it will not really change the situation of the world or even the fate of a country because of my views." Do you know what happened in Rwanda in 1994? ”

"Yes. I saw the movie "Hotel Rwanda" in my social psychology class. ”

"Yes. In fact, this movie is comparable to "Schindler's List", but the level of knowledge is far less than the latter. Because Rwanda is a small African country, it has received far less international attention than Germany. The UN peacekeepers are not even willing to intervene in these matters, which is why it has led to such tragic results. If I could, I really wanted to transform the world into a 'global village' – no borders, no borders drawn on a map – and cities would not be named after just the strong. ”

"I'm afraid it can't be so in Utopia."

"Yes, but I still want to speak – on behalf of this country. Maybe because I'm a computer science student and don't really understand what political relations are going on in the international community, but I want to speak for what I think is right, and I don't want to give up my right – even though maybe no one really values those views, not even the AU presidency this time I didn't draw it—"

"Voltaire once said: 'I can disagree with you, but I will defend your right to speak to the death.'" Chen Ying said.

"I don't know about this." The boy's face began to flush, "But I have seen a poem written by Father Nemola, which is a confessional essay entitled "I Didn't Speak." Have you seen it? ”

"Nope." Chen Ying shook her head. She began to feel that the boy in front of her was no longer so strange, and even a little intimate. She watched as he pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of his suit, the tie around his neck loosely fastened. When he saw her looking at him, he quickly raised his head and tugged at the tie knot, and then whispered:

"** During the persecution of the Jews,

I didn't speak

— because I am not a Jew;

They kill union members,

I didn't speak

- because I am not a member of a trade union;

Finally, when they came against me,

There is no one left to stand up for me. ”

"I think your poems are missing communists and Catholics." Chen Ying smiled and said, "Isn't the meaning of this poem that 'every person, every political party and every nation must bravely stand up for their own ideas in the face of justice and cannot choose silence'? ”

"Ah, so you know this poem." He said, somewhat frustrated, "I would have liked to conclude this paragraph. ”

"You're going to speak?" Chen Ying was a little surprised.

"yes." He continued, "Because when you first met me, you might think I'm a little abrupt — people who know me well will think I'm a little bad — but I like to do more than I say, and a lot of times I want to do my part." I was very concerned about the situation in the Middle East — I was not thinking about political interests, I was more concerned about refugees. I don't think any country can be so bullying and inflict so much suffering on the civilian population. The role of the United Nations should be to mediate and settle international disputes and to avoid wars that would result in large numbers of refugees and the extermination of human beings. ”

"I think that's what the United Nations was founded for." Chen Ying said thoughtfully.

"Well, but it's not enough in terms of action. In the case of the genocide in Rwanda, perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent lives would not have been lost if the United Nations had confronted the problem at the time, reinforced rather than reduced the number of peacekeepers, or reacted more quickly and aggressively. So this time, I would also like to make a suggestion, please pay more attention to the situation in the Middle East, and do not dodge and only look out for yourself. Otherwise, if one day a great disaster comes, others will sit idly by. ”

"This is a humanitarian point of view. I'm not an international politics major, and I don't know much about some international issues – but I support you in saying what you want to say. ”

"Really?" He said with some embarrassment, "I've been practicing with a stopwatch in my dorm room for days, and every time it's a bit of a timeout. I was afraid that the chairman wouldn't let me say it halfway through, and that they would laugh at me because they thought I wasn't up to the mark. ”

"But you told me."

"Well, that's because I don't know anybody here, and I think you- seem kind."