The aged and greying Dawid Llanwr (U-IP), Cildanian Minister for Foreign Affairs rises to the sound of shuffled papers and gives a short speech in his native tongue and remains standing throughout its translation.
Cildania votes for Resolutions 001 and 002 but against 003.
Cildania seconds the motion of the right honourable representative of our Felinistian brother from Barmenia. If we on this council and our nations, peoples and governments are to overcome the recent crisis then it is imperative that we do so through co-operation and brotherhood.
Are we to mark the resumption of this council with an act of exclision? As that is what Resolution the thrid represents. If are to achieving lasting peace then that must come from inclusion and co-operation. To reprimand a fellow nation in this the first postbellum meeting of the council would set the wrong tone.
This council must not be about enforcing the standards of the majority onto the minority. If the Council of Majatra becomes merely a tool of judgement and division, to classify the nations of Majatra as either those on the Council or those held in the Council's contempt would not be a path to lasting peace but rather it would lay the groundwork for the next war.
Cildanian is represented at this Council in the hope that it may prevent there from being a next war, Not to help this Council create one.
We must show our disapproval of human rights abuses in other nations not by excluding or condemning them, by driving them into the arms of those who would seek to destroy that they seek to build, but by serving as an example.
As Cildania is the Dawn, the shinning and guiding light to the people of the world, so must this Council and its leaders be to the Continent.
Rule justly and honourable and guarantee your own people's freedoms and show the tyrants the advantages of a free society. Give them something to emulate, to live up to, not to unite against.
We must gentlemen, lead by example, not through threats and thuggery.
If the recent war has taught us anything it is the horror and perils of imposing the will of one nation on another. We are elected by our own people, We are a responsibility to our own people, we do not to the Wantuni. On their affairs it is not our right to dictate or command, their government put in place through the will of their people as expressed through the democracy we all believe in has that mandate and that right.
While we may not agree with the policies of other governments, we must acknowledge their right to do so as it is the same rights that empower us. And should we change that rule, say that the greatest alliance or military or council of nations should command the policy of individual nations, well what then but a war to decide which organisation has the greatest voice.
We have no right but beyond that, we have no power to force any nation to change its laws to match our expectations of them. If we want them to change that change must come through friendship, if we make an enemy of them for their decisions which are theirs by all rights, then we will only drive them further away from us and our ideals. Into the hands of tyranny or into conflict with us.
We must foster their reform through good will, through co-operation and mutual respect. Anything else will only lead to another war.
-Dawid Llanwr, translated by Foreign Office Under-secretary Salicar Laurentius