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ABC TVCzech Republic president Vaclav Klaus, made famous in a viral internet clip showing him pocketing a ceremonial pen in Chile, was not taking any chances of souvenirs being found in his pocket at Parliament House today.
The president, in Canberra to address the National Press Club, was on his way for an interview with ABC1's 7.30 - which has its Canberra studio within the House - and through the security checkpoint.
Waiting for him there was Michelle Ainsworth, mild-mannered producer for 7.30, ready to usher him up to the ABC studio where reporter Chris Uhlmann was already seated at the desk, lights on, cameras focused.But going through security with all the plebs was not on the Mr Klaus's agenda. Ainsworth takes up the story.
"As soon as he saw the security device he stopped and said: 'I'm not going through there'," Ainsworth told ABC News Online.
"So I told him that everyone goes through. To which he repeated he wasn't going to go through.
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