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05-09-2019, 11:45 PM
Gaiseric Dubius listened attentively to the words of Edmund Lisle. He felt the eyes of the Nerysian staff burning in his back. Dubius felt highly uncomfortable in this position as negotiator. I'm not a diplomat, he thought to himself. He was however pleased with the preparations. Aside from his position as chief negotiator, he was also in charge of a secret joint intelligence unit of the Nerysian foreign and military intelligence services, which focussed entirely on the WBU. Dubius Bureau, it was called.
The Nerysian embassy staff had swollen with some 50 people in the past weeks, all of them working for Dubius Bureau. Some of them were technical and cyber specialists, operating interception equipment stationed inside the Nerysian embassy to eavesdrop other embassies and the WBU government buildings. Other officers had been reserving rooms in hotels used by other diplomatic delegations at the conference, planting bugging devices inside the hotel rooms of other diplomats or their staff. At the headquarters in Nerysia, all the Foreign Operations departments on the countries that attended this conference forwarded their relevant materials to the Dubius Bureau, keeping him as informed as possible. Especially Gehenna and Severyane were major targets.
Dubius was surprised to received the first turn to speak from Lisle and needed some time to shuffle his papers before he began. His thin lips almost completely vanished, his wrinkled face seemed made out of steel, and his left eye-brow rose even further up than it already did - giving him a permanent look of utter skepticism.
''I... I want to thank you Mr. Lisle, and the WBU for bringing us all together. I came here because the Nerysian government believes Brigidna as a whole could gain a lot from more cooperation. But we need cooperation for a specific purpose. Not cooperation for the sake of cooperation. The Nerysian government believes that one such purpose should be regional security. I sincerely hope there is support from the other delegations here to discuss the possibilities for increased regional cooperation to enhance the security of all participating states...''
''As far as student visas are concerned, we are in favor of establishing a regional system to ease the exchanges of students. Limits should apply however. But in principle, it is a good idea. We have almost 3 million students in Nerysia. It would be good for their development, and our society as a result, if some of them would get the chance to study abroad. Naturally, quid pro quo. We are willing to welcome foreign students in return.''
The Nerysian embassy staff had swollen with some 50 people in the past weeks, all of them working for Dubius Bureau. Some of them were technical and cyber specialists, operating interception equipment stationed inside the Nerysian embassy to eavesdrop other embassies and the WBU government buildings. Other officers had been reserving rooms in hotels used by other diplomatic delegations at the conference, planting bugging devices inside the hotel rooms of other diplomats or their staff. At the headquarters in Nerysia, all the Foreign Operations departments on the countries that attended this conference forwarded their relevant materials to the Dubius Bureau, keeping him as informed as possible. Especially Gehenna and Severyane were major targets.
Dubius was surprised to received the first turn to speak from Lisle and needed some time to shuffle his papers before he began. His thin lips almost completely vanished, his wrinkled face seemed made out of steel, and his left eye-brow rose even further up than it already did - giving him a permanent look of utter skepticism.
''I... I want to thank you Mr. Lisle, and the WBU for bringing us all together. I came here because the Nerysian government believes Brigidna as a whole could gain a lot from more cooperation. But we need cooperation for a specific purpose. Not cooperation for the sake of cooperation. The Nerysian government believes that one such purpose should be regional security. I sincerely hope there is support from the other delegations here to discuss the possibilities for increased regional cooperation to enhance the security of all participating states...''
''As far as student visas are concerned, we are in favor of establishing a regional system to ease the exchanges of students. Limits should apply however. But in principle, it is a good idea. We have almost 3 million students in Nerysia. It would be good for their development, and our society as a result, if some of them would get the chance to study abroad. Naturally, quid pro quo. We are willing to welcome foreign students in return.''