Your advice is well-heeded, Sessei. As you have put it, I have been addressing the weaknesses of others thus far. I defer to the previous testaments of my Kazulian colleague, though, and insist that the faults of my kingdom's detractors are the problem here.
Geuua takes a swig from his glass before proceeding
This conference exists not because Lourenne makes demands on any other nations, nor because any nation can declare injury to it by the hand of Lourenne. This conference exists because others have bequeathed unto themselves jurisdiction over Lourennais lifestyles. My kingdom is not in violation of any treaty of which it is signatory to, and is not aware that the guiding philosophies originating in other nations are our codes as well. The incessant mantra issuing forth from the sanctions' signatories, and most bombastically from Minister van Locklean, is that my party's government and its constituents exist in conflict.
I feel compelled to submit the following irony, even if it is interpreted as "dodging the problem". Minister van Locklean has been the most vocal proponent of this conflict argument. Is it not the case, though, that he serves without legitimacy? His party, not long ago the commanding faction of Saridan, has lost every legislative seat it possessed. He, and a handful of his partisans, occupy cabinet positions in a minority among parties with clear voter backing. Perhaps a day will come soon when he is again representative of the people's choice, but for right now that is not so. Whatever power-sharing agreement exists between the Saridani parties which allows for this discrepancy, it is by necessity the designs of apparatchiks and nothing more.
Contrast this with my own New Reaction. It attained legislative hegemony in 3830 at a time when popular apathy had advanced to such a stage of rot that not a single party was fielding itself for election. Despite being a kingdom, Lourenne didn't even have a monarch. Between an empty legislature and an empty throne, New Reaction came into being with a proposition for a radically different set of societal norms. Since then, for 25 years now, we have obtained practical unanimity in popular support election after election. Sometimes we ran unopposed, sometimes new parties fielded themselves only to gather thimblefuls of support. A day may come when we lose our mandate (temporarily or permanently), but until then, the Racial Syndicate is our house and no one else's.
Let me bring this to a close. With the Saridani delegation being the fruit of apparatchik collusion as I have described, and New Reaction's rule being directly representative as I have described, then what we have here is a case of a tiny squad of relics versus the aspirations of millions. Minister van Locklean, if there is one thing I would like to achieve in this conference, it would be for you to alter this one point in your narrative. You do not have a problem with my party. You do not have a problem with its government. You have a problem with the common Lourennais bystander. It is you against a people and a folk. All other nations have been content to shut avenues of trade and investment with us; you have urged war against a populace.