Louis Stevens, Ambassador to the World Congress Security Council from the United Republic of Kalistan:
The statements made by the Dorvish representative are reprehensible in their ad hominem. We did not address any point in the resolution at Dorvik or their foreign minister. Kalistan is and has long held that nuclear weaponry is a scourge on the earth. Kalistan was the original sponsor of the anti nuclear Biological and Chemical Treaty. We have opposed nuclear, biological and chemical weaponry for millennia. Kalistan has long been at the forefront of these efforts. One of the founding principles of the Socialist Party of Kalistan, which was established in 2591, more than 2100 years ago, was the establishment of an anti-Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Treaty which outlawed the use of nuclear weaponry, and the SP has consistently fought to prevent the proliferation of those weapons to nation's great and small. It is long past time the world joined together to abolish these weapons once and for all time.
For the Dorvish speaker to suggest that this is a discrete hit conducted by the Kalistani foreign Ministry, and then to somehow, ridiculously conflate this issue with peaceful energy production demonstrates a genuine ignorance on the part of the Dorvish speaker. The fact is: Dorvik possesses nuclear powered craft. The fact remains, Dorvik has threatened the use of those nuclear powered weapons against Kalistan within the last 20 years over the Ananto Straits issue. The fact is, Dorvik maintains that their max operational range of their nuclear powered fleet is limitless and the destructive power of that force is quite enough to level any place in Kalistan. The fact of the matter is that Dorvik therefore makes our point for us: A world power, with a global reach, can force any issue they desire with no consequences to itself, through the use of nuclear weaponry. It is incumbent upon us, therefore, to reign in this SORT of menace, because while Dorvik publicly threatened Kalistan with absolute annihilation, over a mere right to transit a stretch of water which they maintained we could not defend anyway , in reality, ANY state with access and willingness to use these weapons could do it to ANY other state, for any reason, or for no legitimate reason whatsoever.
We would remind the world about the last time nuclear weapons were used. Vanuku was responsible for killing thousands of people and causing health problems for countless others. Kalistan consistently ejected Vanuku's 4th fleet from Ananto as a result. This action dramatically decreased Kalistani security, and led to a dramatic rise of instability in the region. Within the last 70 years, Vanuku, that same country which nuked another nation, declared war on another nation to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The fact is: nuclear weapons CAUSE war and mass death, they do not prevent them. If Kalistan were to begin a nuclear weapons program, there is no doubt that Kalistan would suffer the same fate as Delatria, invaded by a nuclear armed nation to prevent it from gaining parity with that nuclear state. We do not claim here that Deltaria's quest for a nuclear device was justified: They wanted to acquire one to balance the threat they felt from other nuclear powers, but once that was acquired, of course, they, as a nuclear power, would turn around and threaten other states with intercontinental ballistic missiles, being as bad as the countries they sought to protect themselves from. Their weapon might have been developed as a defensive weapon, but it is only defensive if they use it, and at that point, it just becomes another weapon of mass slaughter.
Possession of nuclear weapons are a privilege of just a few states, who jealously guard the special rules they have written for themselves, and actively seek to deny, to the point of invasion and mass conventional slaughter, other states from doing the very same thing they are doing. But what makes a nuclear state, like Dorvik, deemed more responsible than a non-nuclear state, like Kalistan? Did Kalistan essentially threaten Dorvik with annihilation if they did not get their way in the Strait? No: it was the other way around. And where was the outrage for that belligerency? We saw none, not from any nations. Why? It is possible that Dorvik, who like other major powers possess weapons with nuclear power plants, has so cowed the world. But it is more likely that there are two sets of International Law for Terra. One set which applies to nations like Dorvik, and one set that applies to nations like Kalistan.
In the first set of rules, a nation can claim to support international law and norms, and yet flout them with impunity, because realistically nobody can do anything about this blatant disregard for international norms on the part of the Great, nuclear armed states. Dorvik's primary objection to Kalistan's claims in the Strait rested upon international law, and freedom of navigation. Kalistan eventually conceded the position. It was the efforts and movement of Kalistan on the Strait that ensured that Kalistan was not annihilated. But it was Kalistan who had to relent. The Kingdom of Dorvik, who claims to be governed by international law, still feels absolutely free to flout sovereignty at will, and will never be checked by the international community. Why? We believe it has to do with their nuclear arsenal.
The second set of rules, nations are subject to all the restrictions of International law, but get no hand in crafting it. This set applies to Kalistan and smaller countries who are constantly informed by great powers about the limits of their options in foreign policy. Places like Deltaria, who tried to even the playing field by playing the game by the rules that apply to great powers are invaded, occupied and ultimately face existential annihilation. But it was Vanuku, a nuclear state, that invaded Deltaria. And it was that same nuclear state who nuked Jelbania and killed thousands in a split second. And it was Dorvik, a nuclear state, who threatened Kalistan with annihilation if it did not accede to its demands in the Strait. This threat is ever present, and is terroristic.
So our proposal to break out of this strict hierarchy is to not make lesser powers greater, but to decrease the power of the great powers. A conventional fleet is every bit as destructive as a nuclear powered fleet-- Dorvik will happily, and has in fact, reminded Kalistan of this fact. Our resolution does not touch that fact. We are focusing on the ability of a belligerent and hostile nation like Dorvik to menace a nation like Kalistan from the other side of the globe! Under no situation should that be a reality! Kalistan has no reason to know that Dorvik even exists, and yet they parade their weapons of war right in our face, and do so with absolute impunity, using those weapons to draw concessions from whomever they want. This is the behavior of an imperialist power who has no more respect for international law than it does for other nations' sovereignty, unless that international law can be applied to benefit them specifically.
We conclude by saying: It is in the interest of the smaller states in the world to outvote nuclear armed states, and go on record as opposing this menace to the safety and security of the world. Yes, this resolution is non-binding: Dorvik's speaker informed Kalistan to raise its security concerns outside of the Security Council. But it is a statement: The nations of the world, sans a couple privileged few, will no longer stand for nuclear terrorism conducted by these great power states. Nobody should have the ability to destroy another nation, especially following dictation from the opposite side of the world. These global powers with nuclear navies and a nuclear missile stockpile need to be reigned in, and those weapons must be destroyed. For the sake of the future of humanity.