Chinese President in Grand harbour

In this interview with Filfla.com, Roger Strickland of the Maltese cruise operators Hera talks about the tour of the Grand Harbour organised for the visiting President of China. From Filfla.com:

We’ve also had various personalities on the boat, of whom I think the most prominent was the president of China, Jiang Zemin, who had a harbour cruise of an hour and a half with us, which also included a delegation from the Maltese parliament. He was accompanies by about a hundred and fifty Chinese assistants and members from the press. He actually gave all the crew, including myself, various gifts from china. Halfway through the cruise I personally asked his Excellency if he would have liked anything to drink, and immediately his entourage put an open box in front of him, containing two crystal glasses and a bottle of water. It was also quite exciting because we had so much security with divers underwater checking for bombs, four armed personnel on the boat, and four armed speedboats following, so it was quite an important and high profile event.

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