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November 5558

Dual Republic expands Diplomatic Corp

New members of the Diplomatic Corp under the Foreign Ministry

The Foreign Ministry has announced their plans for massive personel-expansions for the Diplomatic Corp were a success. This comes as no surprise considering the recent resurgence of new diplomatic activity the Dual Republic has engaged in. Sleyster expressed his confidence in the new members of his institution at a graduation ceremony at the "Diplomacy Academy Bannerhafen." Most of these people will soon see their new posts all over the world. Sleyster confirmed to us that some of them will go to Dorvik and others have specifically been instructed for Seleyan affairs. In recent months, rumors of Valruzian-Dual Republican deepening diplomatic ties started gaining traction and apparently they appear to hold true. After a series of dramatic foreign policy actions, Sleyster was very happy to comment on some of his soon-to-be-announced diplomatic victories. He was reluctant to share many details but nontheless filled in some of the empty spots. Apparently the Dual Republic has been preparing an investment package for port modernizations in Valruzia and has used its networks to connect private sector entitites from home with potential Valruzian partners. Some shipping contracts will be outsourced to Valruzia to allow for consolidation and specialization of the medium sized shipping corporations of the Dual Republic. Any further inquiry on this topic was left unanswered. He referred us to news coming from Valruzia very soon and has teased us about other deals being made in the vicinity of the already discussed.

First billions go to navy upgrades

The long awaited military rejuvenation project has finally started to let the financial assets flow to the first designated areas. According to the Ministry of Defence, the first order of business are upgrades to the already persisting naval equipment. This goes hand in hand with re-organization efforts and restructuring within the relatively old current system of the navy. Defence officials explain that this serves as a basis from which to expand from. In the second phase of the military rejuvenation, new navy vessels will be introduced and ordered. Lastly the Army and Air Forces are going to see a much-needed modernization with newly developed high-end weapons from the Dual Republic's own arms manufacturers based at home, beiteynu and soon somewhere else.