Would you buy a used Fabergé egg from these men?
But let’s leave that aside for a while (no doubt H. P. Baxxter will pop in with remarks about the sheen of Mr Codruta’s suiting).
The real issue here is that this bilateral ‘memorandum of understanding’ is not worth the paper it is written on. The Libyan government is under siege. Its deputy prime minister was living under armed guard in Malta after threats on his life. Its prime minister was also in exile for months.
A prominent political campaigner has just been murdered. Outside Tripoli there is total anarchy. Inside Tripoli, there is semi-anarchy. Cyrenaica is ruled by armed militias, with Benghazi as their seat of power.
That memorandum of understanding is ridiculous. Spare us the farces.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140705/local/memorandum-of-understanding-signed-with-libya.526457
The Maltese are so gullible on the subject of Libya and China. I don’t think it can ever change.
Shouldn’t Ranier Fsadni be explaining things?
Reminds me of Chamberlain”s piece of paper or Mintoff’s Karta tal-inċova!
The photo will look good in Codruta’s photo album. All the rest is incidental.
This news item reminded me of this other agreement from September 2013.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130903/local/Libyan-oil-deal-will-protect-consumers-.484597
Oh, I see – that agreement was also described as “groundbreaking” by the prime minister.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat hailed this framework agreement as “groundbreaking” as it would help the ailing energy corporation, Enemalta, and shield consumers from unpredictable spikes in the international price of oil.
In that instance, the prime minister thanked Mr. Zeidan for his “lightning speed” rather than for being “astonishingly quick.”
And then, one day later:
Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi said today that it’s highly probable that Malta can buy oil products from Libya at preferential rates as from the beginning of next year.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-09-04/news/malta-may-purchase-oil-products-at-preferential-rates-from-next-year-2502000640/
What a farce, really.
The last word is incorrectly spelt. That should read “spare us the faeces”.
I, too, would like to hear Baxxter’s assessment of Gabibbo’s sjut.
I’m staying focussed on the things that really matter. Not when we’re signing agreements with a vile tyrannical superpower (China) and a corrupt bunch of crooks that are hated by most of their people (Libya).
More’s the pity. We need all the amusement we can get, and the same could be said of Mallia’s need for sartorial advice.
If you want amusement, read any of the newspaper columns by our “esperti”.
I don’t know about buying a used Faberge egg but one of them looks like he’s scoffed all the Cadbury creme eggs.
I pity the state of ridicule my beloved native land has been brought down to by this lot of deficient people.
Ah so when the PM said he will not put all his (Manuel’s?) eggs in one basket, he probably meant we will have bi-lateral agreements with more than one corrupt and tyrannical country. Got it. So who is next? Afghanistan? Nah we got that one already. Iraq perhaps?
Actually it’s a memorandum of understanding – with these people you think that you have an understanding, and the next minute you find out that that what you took as understood was in fact something totally out of the context of the understanding you thought you had.