Quote:As far as we know a few rather well armed and equipped terrorists have been rounded up.  Whether there are more out there remains to be seen.  Chancellor Guillaume seems to have situation in hand.

Quote:Yes.

Quote:600 years ago, Food and Agriculture Antoine Fouquet had a vision about this being the finest wine countery in Terra. We want the government to help put this area back on the wine map.  Here in the Communaute we know how to do agriculture. And we know how to make wine. And all Terra knows it. Even in places where local fare is promoted as patriotic, their ruling elites want Canraillaise cuisine and wine.
 
The wine producing area in Martois is fairly small, some forty kilometers long and at places only two kilometers wide. This area is dotted with tiny villages surrounded by flat and sloped vineyards on the western side of hills providing some rain but also protection from the prevailing westerly winds from the Odufart Sea.
 
The very best wines of this region come from the upper parts of the slopes where there is the most drainage and sunshine. Less desirable and expensive wines are produced from grapes grown in vineyards further down the slopes while the flat vineyards near the villages are considered rather common varietal wine.
 
So what can we do to help.  Reinstitute  the Appellation Controlee apparatus started by Fouquet.  Fortunately private funding kept it going in a skeletal form when te economy decayed.  The wines for most vineyards near here have been rated and their pedigrees remain intact. So once again there will be one hundred percent government funding from funds appropriated by the Chamber of Deputies to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.  Funded again but in form merchats here have been operating it and preserved it.
 
The Government  will also do a great deal of Terra wide promotion.  A great deal. The idea to be revived is that success means access to the best wine, Canraillaise wine, and access is available, truly available, and not a barely remembered dream. The villages and chateaux here east of Mavigny have the quality control system in place now and can easily add considerable volume to production to meet the Terra wide rising demand with no reduction in quality at all. Easily.
 
Loans will also be available for expansion, modernization and overhaul where appropriate as well as public relations campaigns.  Generous forgiveness clauses will also be in place.  It has been a long time and this is what we believe will help. But do let us know your better ideas We are truly open to your thinking.

Quote:That is a fair question since Communaute de Kanjor does not and can not pretend it is Royaume Uni de Lourenne and does not have the power or influence it had even when we act as de facto leader of the Union of Canrille.
 
There are some definite advantages to maintaining the Union of Canrille even in its truncated form as well as a difficulty.  In the first place, it does give us ready access to purchasing military assets some of which are duplicative but some key items are not.
 
Second, we are more powerful since we are currently operating some Lourennais fleets we did not build which certainly enhances our defense capacity. And with control of the Bank of Canrille we can pay for their maintenance, the subject of our State Council meeting today.
 
Third, it has given us the economic opportunity to work in harmony with our neighbors on projects to mutually enhance our economic prosperity.  And may do so again.
 
Fourth, and really most important, the Union of Canrille is a humanitarian alliance.  With the withdrawal of the World Congress from influence, there is from time a need for collective action to relieve suffering and sometimes to stop oppression.
 
Even in its truncated form, the Union of Canrille is finding ways to act to relieve the suffering of victims of war, disaster and oppression. And have every reason to believe we can continue to do so.
 
The difficulty we have is selecting how much of the repression we can try and stop. Royaume Uni de Lourenne was for a while the most powerful nation on Terra and was called upon to act often.  As a member of the Union of Canrille, we supported that action.
 
In addition to having less capacity to intervene than Royaume Uni de Lourenne, we have a long history of inclination to preferring to live and let live or neutrality. 
 
At the moment there is a truly reprehensible regime oppressing its own people; we like most of Terra have sanctions in place but have not acted to wipe it from the face of the earth. 
 
There is also a warmonger picking fights for no known purpose, but its current victim seems content to and capable of handling a low grade mutually destructive state of conflict indefinitely.
 
In the absence of Terra wide organized consideration of action in either of these cases, our inclination has been to leave that sort of thing to its continental neighbors. Let me state clearly, we would seriously consider joining an international effort to support a solution but that does mean we could lead one.
 
Further our own intelligence indicates several situations we may well have to address so we do not need to be involved outside Seleya today if we can avoid it.

Quote:The first is whether we simply want as a practical matter to be one of the primary suppliers of aid to victims of war, political oppression and natural disaster with that the being primary function beyond mutual defense and economic and cultural cooperation.  The State Council, recognizing we can hardly have the influence the Union of Canrille had when Royaume Uni de Lourenne was leading it, nonetheless believes we should explore how we could have a positive influence on the deteriorating state of international relations.
 
We rejected the role of being a common scold. Terra’s greatest living expert on what everybody else should do about everything all the time.  Why? No one ever listens to that sort of uninvolved preaching.
 
One of the two main possible courses would seem to be open up the humanitarian alliance to others besides those who are Canraillaise but share similar views on aggression, atrocity and peace.  This has possibilities but difficulties as well such as other loyalties and abandoning one of actual bases of the Union.  As well as who a member nation has as a monarch.  This may be a prickly issue.
 
The other approach to increasing influence would be the Union of Canrillre banding together with some other organizations similarly situated again with similar views on peace, atrocity and aggression.  In the short run this may be more productive approach.

Quote:The Directorate of Foreign Security (DSE) made a suggestion to the Government, and accordingly we are asking all Kanjorean nationals to depart  Republique Socialiste d’Alduria. We quite realize this may interfere with some business activity, but we are under the impression there are few long term business associations there.
 
In any event as stated, we highly recommend leaving rather than staying.
 
Further, all government personnel except the Ambassador and a skeletal Embassy staff are being recalled.  We have no military installations in Republique Socialiste d’Alduria.

Quote:No.  Quite the contrary.

Quote:Communaute de Kanjor will be sending a broad range of humanitarian aid to Xsampa in the wake of the destructive attack upon it. The government will be contracting for the shipments but to a large extent individual and corporate monetary  contributions have made the shipments possible.
 
Monetary transfers will follow as well.  Shipments are expected to continue for several months or as necessary.

Quote:Terrorists have murdered Alduria’s Chancellor Guillaume L'Unitier and other officials of his Socialist Government and apparently are in control of Alduria.  On the basis of a report from the Director of Foreign Intelligence, citizens of Communaute de Kanjor have been leaving Alduria and have now completed departure from Alduria.  The Ambassador and skeletal Embassy staff that were still in place have now been evacuated by helicopters that were on standby.  No citizens of Communaute de Kanjor remain in Alduria.
 
Nor will any citizen be allowed to go there. National Gendarmie units are currently patrolling the  border of Numineux Province with Alduria primarily with helicopters  and drones other than at check points on roads and the railway.
 
Little is known about the terrorists other than they are connected with the Kundrati regime and are expressing admiration for some of their more disgusting  atrocities.  The allied Government of Chancellor Guillaume L'Unitier which was part of the Union of Canraille is gone, and accordingly our alliance with Alduria and its membership in the Union of Canrille are now null and void.  Instead there is no recognized government to our northwest which is likely ruled by the aforesaid terrorists.
 
How awful they will treat the people of Alduria is unknown, but we are preparing for then to emulate the Kundrati abomination.  Accordingly, the National Gendarnmerie is preparing for refuge camps at border crossing points and arranging for more long term lodging facilities in nearby villages. Personnel from the Foreign Ministry and Directorate of Internal Security are establishing processing arrangements.
 
As indicated, little is known of the terrorist intentions, so two Corps of four divisions each will be securing our Numineux Province border with Alduria supported by two National Air Force Wings, one of Fantome 2000 multi role fighter bombers and the other consisting of Rafale F4.2 multirole fighter bombers.  The National Navy will insure there are no incursions by sea.  Each corps will include one armored division and three mechanized divisions.
 
Besides knowing little of the terrorists who appear to be in control of Alduria we have heard nothing yet of the fate of the 3rd Imperial Fleet  built by Royaume Uni de Lourenne and turned over to Alduria.