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Sir Thomas Harney overviews Kalistani Foreign Policy
Seko, Lodamun, and Altea Accords are on top of list
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
May 10, 5715


Sir Harney fields questions from the Press on Foreign Affairs

Sir Thomas Harney helmed a major press conference to bring the Nation up to speed on Kalistani Foreign Affairs. Below are his opening remarks. He took questions following the statement:

Fellow Citizens,

I come before you to give an update of the situation of Kalistani Foreign Affairs.

Kalistan remains at peace. We currently retain Bentasur Naval Base and have five more years left on the lease at Luncasi in Kizenia before we will transition that base back to Kizenia. Her Imperial Majesty's First Regular Fleet conducts regular operations in the Northern Anantonese, Her Second Regular Fleet operates south of the Limit between Seleya and and Vorona, and the Third Regular Fleet is engaged in regular peacetime patrols out of Bentasur, between Gaduridos and Indrala. Along with our security partners, we can say that the Northern Anantonese is governed completely.

We maintain friendly active and cooperative relationship with Valruzia, Lodamun, Egelion, Kiezenia, Dolgava, Lourenne, Hutori, Zardugal, Lourenne and Xsampa. We are still technically associated with the nominally independent City State of Tel Bira through the Bankaut Agreement, and we are associated with Nadiya through the Altea Accord. We are developing new relationships with Seko and, despite our failure in our bid, New Englia. We are interested in improving relationships with Mordusia, Bianjie, and Dundorf. There are a number of nations that Kalistan has cool relations with, but the vast majority of nations we maintain no relations at all with. Kalistan does not automatically offer diplomatic posts to every nation and our recognition goes with diplomatic personnel.

Our major international agreements include, the Non Aligned Movement, which is open to all nations, except those who are actively involved in large scale collective security agreements, the Altea Accords, a multi-National, multi-Continental set of agreements designed to improve communication and cooperation among signatory states, the Organization of Drug Exporting Nations, an ancient regime that enables citizens to gain access to the highest quality medicinal and recreational chemicals without the intervention of paternalistic government, The Common Intelligence Sharing Agreement, protocols that allows cooperation on intelligence sharing, the Seleyan Economic Community, which promotes free and fair trade in Seleya, as well as several lower level agreements, including the International Go Association, the International Aviation Agreement, and several commercial standardization efforts.

Fiscally, Kalistan only acknowledges the Imperial Peso as legal tender, though will exchange all international currency through ForIn's International Currency Cambio. Other nations' currencies may not be accepted by public or private entities in payment for goods or services. Our major trading partners are, in order, Lodamun, Gaduridos, Baltusia, Valruzia, Egelion, Lourenne, Xsampa, Mordusia, Hutori, Dolgava, and Kundrati. We have limited third party trading with others, via our major partners. Kalistan maintains a small annual positive trade balance. We seek to improve our position with central and western Dovani.

We are currently working on shopping the Green Terra Initiative to a number of nations: We have already met with Seko, and had what I think is a positive conversation about helping that nation not only continue its development strategies, but also ensuring that Sekowan labor is not significantly displaced. If and when Seko applies for the Green Terra Initiative grants, Kalistan stands ready to help provide Seko not only capital and credit in the form of non-refundable grants, but also the technical expertise the will need to see their dreams become reality, and to ensure that the social costs of modernization is not born by Seko's working class, but that jobs and more importantly, job training, go with the money. Green energy is a long term employment program that yields dividends after only a very short period of time, not only in the form of creating renewable energy, but also for the long term, by creating a cleaner and more sustainable environment. We welcome Seko, and any other nation who would like to make a change, to apply for grant money from this fund, for their future, and for a better Terra.

Kalistan continues to maintain a regionalist foreign policy, with our main efforts focusing on nations in the Anantonese Ocean Basin, and adjacent states. We reject liberal internationalism as an ideology, we reject international institutions who attempt to dictate to Kalistan what our foreign policy should be, and we reject those notions that foreign interests should be somehow more important within Kalistan than Kalistani interests are. Every directive from Her Imperial Majesty with regard to Foreign Policy comes from that perspective. And unlike our liberal friends who would prefer that their interest supersede our own, at least Kalistan feels the same in private that we express in public. We will continue to promote our national, and then regional interests over all else, as we have always done.

Thank you and at this point, I will take a few questions.

At this point, reporters primarily asked him about his recent trip to Seko, the failed bid in New Englia, and even a question about Quella Jones, the Foreign Minister's near constant companion, and now fiancé.

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