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Crown Street announces twin state visits in Beluzia and Dankuk.

November 5589

Fort William, Luthori - In hopes of increasing bilateral relations between the Luthorian Empire and other states in the world, and in the aftermath of increased diplomatic efforts with Xsampa and Beluzia specifically, the Luthorian Government has announced the holding of two working visits by the Luthorian Prime Minister, Dr. Reyburn to both the Republic of Beluzia and the Kingdom of Dankuk. In his trip to the Kingdom of Dankuk, the Prime Minister shall be accompanied by the Prince Alexander, second-in-line for the Luthorian throne behind his mother, the Princess of Orange, Katherine. This visit would constitute the first visit that an imperial family member, at the exception of the Emperor himself would make a trip to a foreign nation such as Dankuk. While the visit to the Republic of Beluzia was already announced by the Prime Minister's Office, as the objective was shown to increase bilateral economic ties between both states, but, it would an understatement to consider that Luthori's visit to Dankuk was, unexpected, to say the least.

In truth, it seems that Luthori's interests, at least on the economic sense are yet again focusing abroad, as Luthori itself is focusing on either the establishment or the re-establishment of ties between Luthori and other states with whom the Empire could have either seen periods of frictions or even some period of silence in terms of bilateral relations. Yet, faced with an increasingly changing world and the gradual weakening of the United Kingdom of Lourenne as a commercial partner and the collapse of the Kundrati Union in a deadly civil war, the Luthorian Commercial Office has drifted the Foreign Office towards engaging a series of bilateral talks with other nations on the subject of seeing increased trade volume between the Luthorian Empire and these said nations. The Department of Commerce released a memo/note to the Foreign Department [Racheer Note About Luthorian Commerce and Its Future], describing what the Luthorian Empire could do to continue developing its trade network out of its traditional partners at the world stage. Thanks or due to these recommendations, the Department for Foreign Affairs recently confirmed having engaged talks with Kalistan, Dankuk, Xsampa, Beluzia on that very same matter. Discussions with the Vascanian Government have also been confirmed of having token place, yet, as of now, the Department is keen to not share of the details as no deal was in any way secured between both parties and the fact that, at least on the Luthorian side, talks are considered to be in their "infancy".

Fort William has released papers which were shared by the Department of Commerce outlining the goals and objective that each of the visits are hopefully going to achieve, if, "everything goes as planned and well", these were the words expressed to the press by a spokesperson for the Commercial Sub-Department, which are, hopefully, resuming well the Government's wishes upon these commercial deals. For the first agreement whose details should be refined by the Luthorian Prime Minister's visit to that said nation, that being the Republic of Beluzia, the Luthorians are hopeful that the negotiations initiated in the aftermath of Mrs. Hampton [Beluzian Foreign Minister] visit to the Luthorian Empire in 5586 would result in a good economic agreement being achieved between the two parties, culminating in the continuation of the construction of a goodwill relationship between Luthori and Beluzia, which was initiated by this Administration, following up the former Administration [Malfoy, Carrington]'s policies towards the Artanian continent, where the Empire, while cautious of not breaking the fragile balance existing between all Artanian powers that exists, that being the Federal Republic of Dundorf and the Dual Monarchy [formerly Dual Republic] of Narikaton and Darnussia, especially as the Kundrati Union collapsed into anarchy. Yet, at the same time, while respecting that fragile Balance of Powers, Luthori would seek to expand her economic power over the Continent, mostly due to consideration apparent to the numerous trade relationship around the World which have been put into jeopardy by the sudden dissolution of long-time political parties which had become inseparable from the these countries' administration or way of life. 

Due to these considerations, the Foreign Office hopes that the treaty that will be signed between the Luthorian Government and the Beluzian Government would be a treaty focusing on the loosening of the border patrols over the Luthorian-Beluzian border, as per with the wishes of the Beluzian community in Luthori, the set up of a goodwill agreement meant to begin preparations for connecting the Luthorian and Beluzian nations through infrastructure and upgrading the Beluzian infrastructure. The implementation of a common policy meant at short-term, decreasing the tariffs existing for goods between both nations, which would be mostly, at the moment, at Luthori's advantage, and finally, Luthorian investments into Beluzia to kick start its economic development. Mrs. Hoptkins expressed her [and the Government's] views on the whole endeavour engaged with the Republic of Beluzia.

"We are very hopeful that this agreement that we've negotiated with the Beluzian representatives that have been sent by the Government of Mr. Teobald d'Ambray in the aftermath of Mrs. Hampton's visit to Luthori. The details of that bilateral agreement are still up to be negotiated by both countries' diplomats, yet we are hopeful that we've reached an agreement that would benefit all parties on board with that plan. We've received positive answers to the agreement by the Beluzian Government, which seems to be satisfied, as we are, with the settlement that we've reached. We have good hopes for that deal overall.

For the other visit that is on the Luthorian Government's mindset, the visit to the Kingdom of Dankuk, let's just state that the visit wasn't planned by any foreign policy analyst, yet, when looking deeper into the reasons for such a visit, the reasons become clearer and clearer. The Kundrati Union is engaged in a civil war never seen in long time, the United Kingdom's power is fading overnight due to recent international inactivity and the withdrawal of Lourennais/Canrillaise naval vessels from the Vascanian theatre against the Jelbic Empire and Beiteynu. Due to these factors, the necessity of finding a new, amicable trade partner to do commerce with in Western Dovani became, in a way, not only a necessity, but also, an obsession. Thankfully, the Kingdom of Dankuk is remaining as one of the sole powers capable of becoming that said partner, as Seko's economy is too linked with the Canrillaise Empire and Hulstria, Luthori's historic and traditional ally on the Continent had long since faded into irrelevancy, civil conflict and even genocide in some cases. This leaves only the Kingdom of Dankuk as a sensible and respectable ally in the Continent that Luthori can trade with. The Luthorian Diplomatic Office [the Luthorian Embassy] in Dankuk expressed that the Dankukian Government, under the leadership of the Prime Minister Gwisil Gowoonyaesol, was interested into finding a common settlement between the Luthorian Empire and the Kingdom of Dankuk to develop Dankuk-Luthorian trade and cultural ties. Prime Minister Reyburn shall be accompanied in this endeavour by the Duke of Alchester, Prince Alexander of Luthori, second-in-line for the Throne of Luthori and Mordusia, who will represent the Imperial Family during this visit to a fellow monarchy state in the World.

The Office of the Prime Minister didn't release any date for the visit to take place, stating that these would be announced when a settlement on the dates would be reached with both governments.

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