Kanjor

[Drax]

CLAIRON PICARD
 
GOVERNOR GENERAL DISCUSSES CANRILLE UNION
 
Governor General’s Palace, May 15, 5622:  Asked by CLAIRON PICARD what would be changing because of association with the Union of Canerille, Governor General Michel Malfois, who was leaving a meeting of the Council of Ministers about tax reform, responded:
 

Need to understand where coming from.  For a number of years, Kanjor has generally favored a live and let live approach to foreign affairs preferring to stay out of other people’s business.   Except for two things.  We did want to trade with most everybody, and we have wanted to be associated with other Canrillaise nations often having the Lourennais monarch as ours to further this concept. Beyond that I will say we favored using the World Congress as a place to handle disputes until it ceased to function and have pretty much always been opposed to nuclear weapons.
 
Our entry into the Union of Canrille or Canraillaise Empire was at a time when Lourenne was the preeminent economic and military power on Terra. Terra was largely divided into competing blocs and as the humanitarian alliance was easily the most attractive. With Lourenne going into isolation, the economic and military power of the Union of Canrille was considerably reduced.
 
Reduced but not eliminated.  Kanjor decided the pieces were worth picking up. Kanjor has long been more involved in economic cooperation than military adventures and has been involved and continues to be involved with our Canrillaise Seleyan neighbors in projects for mutual economic benefit.
 
These could have occurred without the Union of Canrille, but some military sources of military defense could not have been. Four fleets built and operated by Lourenne are still under the command of Imperial Command Headquarters , a part of the Union of Canrille. Two are now in the budgets of Kanjor and Alduria while the other two are maintained by the interest on funds held by the Bank of Canrille, also a part of the Union of Canrille as is the military satellite surveillance system of the Union of Canrille also operating under Imperial Command Headquarters.
 
The Union of Canrille has been and can continue to be a great impetus toward economic cooperation for mutual benefit.  There is currently a drive toward greater unity and it is expected members of the Union will be adopting measures to facilitate a joint foreign policy and defense policy.  Communaute de Kanjor is fully supporting this concept.