Foreign Minister el-Yamani
FOREIGN MINISTER SUGGESTS CHANGES TO DIPLOMACY COMING
At a briefing at the Foreign Ministry for intelligence personnel being assigned to embassy staffs, Foreign Minister Nessim el-Yamani indicated some changes in the approach to interaction with the rest of Terra were in order.
Jumhuriat al-Badara is not returning to the isolation that prevailed under People's Democracy Party rule. What we are doing is reinstituting our policy with respect to international organizations of observe and learn. Our diplomats are quite capable of understanding the overt issues coming to these bodies but not particularly adept at comprehending when they are subterfuges for longstanding undercurrents positive or negative. The Cabinet believes that evaluation of intelligence, an important corner of our national security, should be given greater emphasis, and accordingly your work might well be called the first line of defense. Diplomacy will still remain our first line of defense in case of attack; but intelligence must anticipate the attack.
Well you might very well say, what has that got to with voting on the Security Council seats? The Security Council can have some actual power. The only member with veto power we knew well enough to confidently trust is no longer a "permanent" member. Jumhuriat al-Badara will abide by its existing commitments but will make few new ones. Quite frankly, we do not need to decide for whom to vote so much as to know what these Security Council members are up to.
The ones we know we will ask. The first candidate for a Security Council seat a Free Radical government ever encountered asked for our vote because its continent was not represented. The second was another candidate from that continent seeking that same seat. That sort of discourse is not how we will learn what is going on. We hope you can help fill in the blanks.
The good news is we know of no threat and do not expect our desire to trade with the rest of Terra to attract a threat. But our intelligence services must tell us if we are right. Peace be unto you all.