42nd General Assembly Session

[LC73]

James Cornish, Likatonian Representative

I would like to thank Dolgavia for there warm welcome they gave us and we cannot wait to oofically be part of the World Congress again.

[XanderOne]

Marco Di Stefano, Istalian Ambassador to the World Crongress:

Honorable delegates,
we have to express our apologies because a lack of specification about our previous request towards the representative of the Likatonian Government. We would like specify that it would be appropriate for the RHC and the corporations involved in the investiagation not to partecipate furthemore to the debate of this Assembly since there will be an investigation on them for the sake of a more ordered debate, but that was a kindly invitation, a suggestion.

As underlined by the representative of the Istalian party Populist Faction, political parties have always had the right to intervene in this Assembly, we cannot but recognize this, a right that has been always recognized.
It is true that due to the relations between the RHC and the CRP, it could be suitable that also CRP will reserve its statements for a more suitable place, because we think that investigation cannot avoid to involve also that party, and for this reason it will be interest of the Istalian delegation to propose the organization of a special commission to follow the investigation and dedicated to the debates on the issue, where, however, the right and time to spoke will be moderated by the commissiom, but, as said, we cannot but judge as UNACCEPTABLE and SHAMEFUL that some delegations demand or worse command to remove someone from this Assembly.

And I would like add another thing, if someone feel the right to make know to everybody how they find annoying the intervention of these people in this Assembly, I feel the right to make know that personally I find not only annoying, but unbereable statements like the one made by the Keymonite representative as well as by the Dorvish representative.

About the former, we really fear that, alongside the concerns that could interest many of the nations which already expressed their position here, the statements of the representative from Keymon could be impregnated by a veritable form of religious discrimination, a fear supported by the fact that Keymon was among the first nations to accuse of radicalism, foundamentalism and of extremism the RHC, curiously hand in hand to Dorvik.
And just about the motivations behind the stance of Keymon about the RHC, we noticed that on their press the Keymonite Minister of Transport declared that the members of the RHC "have been known to kill those who oppose them". As said previously, Istalian Government admitted that maybe some relevant news and facts could be missed, but for the moment we saw such allegations came just from Keymon, while other nations expressed concerns just related to possible negative effects on their society and cultures. But there is a great difference between saying such things and make murder charges.

Now, talking about Dorvik, joining other delegations the Istalian one too find really unappropriate for the Dorvish delegations to taking up any debating time of the Assembly expressing the unilateral and arbitrary discomfort about what foreign nations want celebrate. It is NOT AT ALL the right of Dorvirk to judge or determine what a nation can celebrate and if they wish to invite third nations to join them and absolutely it is NOT AT ALL the duty of this August Body to do so, for this reason we invite the Dorvish delegation not annoying anymore the Assembly with what seem just childish inopportune requests.
But I would like add also that indeed the Istalian delegation feel a great discomfort in seeing the Dorvish representative making such ridiculous request through a biased and distorced description of the events, because describing the celebration of the end of a civil war and most important the triumph of the democracy against fascist and nazis forces as "the celebration of the death of their King" is just this: the spreading of biased and distorced facts, if not falsehood, about a third country, something that we cannot accept anymore, because, and we want underline this, the last King of Endralon died even before the beginning of the civil war, because Ottokar XII died in 4709 while the civil war started in 4715 and it finished in 4734, when the republic was declared, exactly 10 years before the beginning of the current celebration of the 10th year of their republic.
And the reason beacause the Istalian authorities accepted the invitation by the Endralonese Government, if Dorvik is so much interested about this, it's that, as His Most Excellent Imperial Majesty our Emperor wished to make known through a message given to our Prime Minister for Endralon, indipendently by the form of government, it's always a victory for all the human kind when democracy triumph.
The only thing very "troubling" here it is seeing the presumption by Dorvik thinking that this August body could cares of what Dorvik thinks about the national holidays and celebrations of other countries, also because fortunately Dorvik is just one of the dozen nations of Terra and being one of the Great Powers doesn't accord to it any moral or ethical superiority.

Finally, about the issue arose between Valruzia and Keymon/Dorvik, and we cannot avoid to express our "surprise" in seeing these last two nations once again acting hand in hand backing each other, we can't deny the fact that the Valruzian delegation brought before the Assembly very intersting and detailed arguments which, I think, cannot fail to challenge the convictions of many here.
For this reason we think that also to solve this issue the World Congress, if it must deliberate on it, should organize a new special commission on the issue, a commission where legal expertises on international trade and Industrial affairs should intervene, to determine if an absolute right of every nation, the one to regulate as they wish their economies, in this case has relied on fully legal framework and fully followed the rules.
And when I talk about legal expertises, I intend that no political and thus biased representatives should intervene on the matter, but people relying on the law, not at all people aimed, as said, by biased national interests, nor from Valruzia, nor from Keymon.
It should be a commission where legal representatives from Valruzia and Keymon will defend on legal basis the positions of their respective parts and on which a committee of indipendent legal expertises should deliberate.
I hope our collegues will support this suggestion.

Thank you

[Auditorii]

"The joys of having the once great Istalian government back in the hallowed halls of this most august body. No, we agree that the Dorvish are not the end all be all to what nations can do; that fact we agree on. We find it particularly "discomforting" to use the words of the Istalian delegate to celebrate the death of a monarch, who might I add had no notable events occur during his time as monarch that would indicate that he is a brutal and bloody dictator. I think our allies in Majatra and Seleya would note that an Artanian nation such as Dorvik might have better intelligence versus those so far away. As for the other allegations and petty comments from the Istalian delegation, we'll simply leave them alone.

Our comments and concerns have been made very clear regarding the Valruzian situation. We believe that it is well within the right of a company to nationalize specific industries that provide essential goods and services, we stand with Keymon in that fact. While we do not enjoy the use of powers to eminent domain, nationalize industries we believe that it is the sovereign right of nations to do so when it is in their best interest. It would be wise for the Istalian delegation to separate the Keymon issue with the Dorvish issue. The Dorvish issue was resolved, the Valruzian government which, according to their own admission, is being run by these large corporations and we may have found that the Valruzian government is nothing more than oligarchs and a vaguely disguised corporate republic but we'll leave that discussion for another day.

We also agree that ANYONE is welcomed within the General Assembly and as such believe that any political party, organization, country...even if they've left, have a RIGHT to be involved in the World Congress' General Assembly, that I think we can all agree on. The Dorvish do believe an investigation should be set up and developed to investigate the matters at hand within the RHC and its associated corporate sponsors."

Anton von und zu Kiesinger,
General-Plenipotentiary to the World Congress
Kingdom of Dorvik

[XanderOne]

Marco Di Stefano, Istalian Ambassador to the World Crongress:

Well... it seems that there is the risk that facing a detailed legal analysis the Keymonite position could easily trumble and fall. However, to our colleagues from other delegations, we are still convinced of the fact that only an indipendent commission formed by expertises on trade and industrial Law could fully recognize the goodness of the Valruzian position, so that such judgement could not be accused to be biased by particolar national interests.

And we are sure that as the Valruzia Government was fully able to magnify its position here, it can do the same also before the commission that we suggested, but nobody will be able to accuse Valruzia or other nations who expressed their position to want assert just their national interests.

And the delegate from Dorvik showed this, that the rights reserved to the nations and the interpretation of these rights could be quite fluid changing from nation to nation, depending from the perticular interests of this or that government, and in fact having in mind the long lasting tensions between Dorvik and Valruzia, Dorvik is not at all in the position to express judgement on this issue, because we can fear that possible acromony from Dorvik towards Valruzia could make Dorvik statements not at all impartial, judgements that furthermore we fell lacking of the same lagal details and deepness as expressed by the Valruzia delegates which seems already convinced several nations.
Yes, probably this organization didn't heard our voice for long time, but we can assure to Dorvik that our eyes never closed and our ear never stopped to hear what is happening on Terra.

It is instead sad to see Dorvish delagation once again twist the reality as well as what other people said. The only one that is talking about celebrating the death of a King is the Dorvish delegation, as well as we never said that under the rule of Ottokar XII happened somenthing of brutal, indeed we said that after the death of the last king of Endralon, which happened almost 30 years before the end of the civil war, during a period of anarchy, fascist and nazis forces fought liberal conservatives, right-wing republicans, centrists, social democrats, socialists, communists forces siding for the democracy, somenting of incompatible with the ideology like fascism and nazism, and that as democratic country we cannot but celebrate this triumph of democracy.

We feel the statements by Dorvik as blatant and unacceptable falsehood toward us and if they can express whatever they want from their palaces and on their press, the Istalian delegation doesn't accept that such things happen here.
Saying that in Endralon they are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the death of a king that indeed died 30 years before is just a falsehood, a falsehood expressed by a nation like Dorvik that can only be saw as a way to undermine and smear the reputation of another nation.
If Dorvik can prove what it assert, Dorvik has to do so before not only Istalia, but also Endralon, Kalopia, Rildanor, Kanjor, Valruzia, Jakania, Badara, Saridan, Baltusia, Rutania, Talmoria, Barmenia, Alduria and Davostan-Kivonia, all nations, republics and monarchies, that accepted the invitation of Endralon of course not to celebrate the death of someone, but clearly the triumph of democracy.
If Dorvik thinks that is voice is more important of those of all these nations, you're very much mistaken.

For all this reason we call for the intervention of the Secretary-General or the Vice Secretary of the National Assembly to put an end to the spreading of such falsehoo, the Dorvish delegation will have to explain this to the Secretary, no more to the Istalian delegation.

OOC: Auditorii, how it works now? You will talk with yourself?

[John Cracker]

John Benton

I will leave this chamber as the Istalian representative suggest, but first let me clear up some annoying, and consent misconceptions about the RHC, we have released our funding and spending records, we urge all members to look at them, we had one corporate sponsor which we are not taking money from anymore, an have not for the past year and a half, we thank the representative from Istalia for being fact based (OOC: All the news about the RHC on the RHC newspaper is unbiased and jus strait news, any news form their can be trusted) and no we have not killed anyone or engaged in maloiucous behavoir, if you want to accuse the RHC of anything, make it worthwhile. I will now exit this chamber, and hope the General Assembly will carry out their investigation unbiasedly, and throughly.

[XanderOne]

Marco Di Stefano, Istalian Ambassador to the World Crongress:

Istalia wants just express fully support for the whole statements and the requests made by the Valruzia delegation. I think that like us, also Valruzia Government and its delegation are tired to respond and to be involved in the continous "wave of unfounded, dubious accusations against other countries" by Dorvik Government and its representatives (nobody could express better this).

The "high" judgement of Dorvik, made from the high of a podium of presumption where Dorvik put itself unilaterally, already hit:

A religious movement;
A Likatonian party;
The Likatonian Government;
The Endralon nation as whole and its Government;
Valruzia nation as whole and its Government;
And then Istalia;

We leave the stage to the General-Secretary of the World Congress and I make the exactly same appeal made by Valruzia: we are no more disponible to talk with someone that to support its side know only insult and mock its interlocutors.

[Yolo04]

Metrofane Murgo, Representative for the Kingdom of Keymon to the World Congress

I will start my statement with something many of you do not expect-agreement. I can agree with the Valruzian delegation that what we are debating are important issues and these issues should be brought forth for the nations of the world to see.

However now, as much as the Valruzian delegate hates to hear, we disagree.

The Valruzian delegate brings up the point, after rambling about his own nations alleged guilt which is just plain guilt, the airline in question (Keymoon Airlines) was never “Keymonite”. It is indeed true that Keymoon Airlines was not owned by a Keymonite Corporation. However, this does not matter in the slightest. As the law, The Aviation Nationalization of 4742, clearly states quote-“Article 1:
All airlines originating or headquartered in Keymon shall be nationalized”. “So what”, the Valruzian delegate will inevitably try and say, “Keymoon Airlines originated from Valruzia”. That much is true. However, something the Valruzian delegate will not tell you is the fact Keymoon Airlines has headquarters in Turtle Bay, the capital city of Keymon. This explicitly makes it legal, and expected, for nationalization to occur to the airline.

The next allegation the delegate brings up is the fact that the Ministry of Infrastructure, according to eminent domain law, cannot set the price for the nationalization of the airline. The first part is true, according to eminent domain law, the government cannot set the price of a piece of property. Only an independent body can. However the delegate seems to have forgotten or missed the fact that the Ministry of Infrastructure did in fact bring together a group of airline owners and individuals who worked in the industry, to discuss the pricing of nationalization airlines. The only intervention the government had in that process was stating that no more 10 million can be spent on each company, as that would put the Keymon budget into doubt and would possibly hurt our economy.

The next, to be quite frank-lie, that the delegate tells is that Keymoon Airlines had a right to leave Keymon without being nationalized. Now, I understand the Valruzian delegate doesn’t like to look at facts and neither does the Valruzian government. Because, if you where to do so, you would note how in the law I previously mentioned, it states that airline companies ”shall be” nationalized. The law does not say that companies “can be” nationalized. It states in clear Luthorian that they ”shall be”. This means that avoiding being nationalized is against the law. Keymoon Airlines and the LOT Group both blatantly violated the law and slapped the Keymon people in the face! When citizens of a nation violate the law, they are prosecuted. Yet, the delegate from Valruzia seems to believe that when companies violate the law, they should be allowed to do so, if it benefits Valruzia of course!

Now naturally the Valruzian delegate also complained about the compensation we offered the LOT Group. Yes, it is not a large amount. Yet what the Valruzian bully doesn’t seem to understand is, Keymon is not a large nation. It is not an extremely rich nation. It is not an industrialized nation. It relies on tourism and trade to keep its economy running. Therefore, we don’t have billions to hand over to the LOT Group. That would not only destroy our budget but it would directly harm the people of Keymon.

Of course, I’m sure the Valruzian delegate cares so much about the Keymon people. After all, why would his government violate there human right of seeking education, if he didn’t care? The Valruzian government has prevented the children of embassy officials from receiving an education. These children have lost there education because the Valruzian government is too concerned with the dealings of an airline company to care! Yet the Valruzian government does not care about Keymon, or its people, or its economy. It only cares about the profit it can make from Keymon.

The Valruzian government has continuously harmed the people of Keymon with no care. They’ve hurt our economy and they’ve hurt our people because they’re are too concerned about profiting off the people of Keymon.

The current government of Keymon, as all of you know already, has remained neutral throughout the many conflicts in Terra. We graciously accepted the offer to host peace talks to end the war in North Dovani. We have remained militarily and economically neutral, only using force to defend our people and our economy.

The reason the nationalization of airlines occurred is because of this neutrality and the airline industries power over our tourism industry. Valruzia has gotten into conflicts in the past, it has gone to war against opponents on and off the continent. If a war where to break out involving Valruzia, Keymoon Airlines would most likely become a target for attack. That would directly harm our people and our economy. We cannot take the risk of having our airline industry dominated by foreign powers who do not follow the same neutral ideals as us. It is simply asking for an economy disaster that our people could not survive. The nationalization was done to defend our economy and our people from a world that doesn’t follow our neutral ideas.

If the Valruzian government or LOT Group wish to negotiate, the door is still open and it has always been open. However, that door is closing fast. Your continued attacks on Keymonites throughout Seleya and your continued refusal to negotiate will result in retaliatory action if they are not ended. Understand this…we are a neutral nation but we will defend our people at all costs.

If the Government of Valruzia wishes to negotiate, now is the precise moment you should say so. If you no longer wish to negotiate, my government will commence all actions deemed necessary for National Defense and security.

Thank you.

[Auditorii]

It appears that both Istalia and Valruzia have fortunately discovered a mutual boogeyman, Dorvik. Once again, the Dorvish are bringing the world together! That being said, the Dorvish "accusations" are not baseless. The Valruzian government has come to the World Congress' General Assembly to plea for the world to appreciate them, feel bad for them that a sovereign state, Keymon, nationalized its entire airline system, not just the LOT Group's holdings or specifically Valruzian holdings in Keymon. I find it odd that Valruzia with its apparent alleged robust economy would cry such a fowl that it required them to come to the World Congress for help? That leads us to believe that Valruzia is ran solely by the corporations and that profit, over the actions of sovereign nations, is the motivation behind Valruzia's claim to the World Congress. There is no other conclusion. Valruzia responded with a a bevy of "sanctions" and "retaliations" including the closing schools and universities. That is quite the measure for a country that is apparently humanitarian. It has also become apparent from Valruzian news media that the driving force behind Valruzia's foreign policy is solely how it wishes to infest every nation in the world with its state sponsored airlines, banks, etc.

We also must note that the Dorvish-Valruzian "row" was established when the national flag carrier of Dorvik was nationalized as per order of the Dorvish government. This was not some "private" airline, this was a public-private corporation created by the Dorvish government and in a midnight deal the LOT Group attempted to force its way in and take over control over the Dorvish flag carrier. The Dorvish government stepped in and nationalized it. That is our right and every nations right. That is Dorvik standing for the international order. The fact that Dorvik is being labeled as "wrong" for defending the rights of sovereign nations to take its own actions when it feels it is necessary, presents a serious problem for everyone in this chamber. We are all here because we want to work towards a common goal, a common place and quite frankly this body is now saying that the actions of Keymon government is "wrong" because they took action nationalizing an entire sector of their economy because they felt it was in their best national interest? LOT Group is not the only one who was nationalized and quite frankly for them to be here crying that somehow they were the only one wronged is absolutely insane.

Regardless, the Dorvish are use to this sort of condemnation on the world stage for speaking the truth even when countries like Valruzia do not want to accept the truth. It is quite something to see the sick man of Majatra once again attempting to put itself into world affairs after years of being absent, neglecting its duties to the Security Council as it was ranked as a "Great Power" or whatever they proscribed themselves to be. Valruzia, with its allegedly massive corporations that appear out of thin air and offer 500m loans to nations without any sort of historical backing to its claim of being "one of the big four". I am glad that you two have found each other, perhaps it is a match made in heaven for the sick man of Majatra and the delusional man of Seleya to marry and perhaps make something of themselves.

Anton von und zu Kiesinger,
General-Plenipotentiary to the World Congress
Kingdom of Dorvik

[jamescfm]

Ms. Wardiyya al-Darwish, Jakanian Permanent Representative to the World Congress:

Might I recommend that we take a brief pause in the Assembly session for tea?

[John Cracker]

Jepson Hayes

Sweet Tea?