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Kalistan to adjust its International relations
Leaves 15 treaty regimes, while supporting principles of DeGrowth
Kaliburg, Ananto
February 8, 5325


Foreign Minister Natalie Brewer addresses Moves in Kalistan's Foreign Policy

"While the new list of recognized treaties do not shift our commitments significantly," said Foreign Minister Natalie Brewer today, "This treaty reduction does represent a general housecleaning that goes on from time to time in Kalistan." The Foreign Minister was referring to new set of bills aimed at reducing the number of treaties that Kalistan remains as a signatory on.

Most of the treaties we are abrogating are either ones where Kalistan is the sole signatory or ones with bilateral arrangements with other countries that are covered in our own General Friendship Agreement," said the Top Foreign Service Officer today in Kaliburg. "We do not need a bilateral treaty with a particular country that says exactly the same thing we say in our own General friendship accord. If those countries wish to remain in those arrangements with Kalistan, they should sign our diplomatic treaty. But the fact that we long ago signed their treaty while they did not return the favor and sign ours sort of tells Kalistan what we need to know about that relationship."

Other treaties Kalistan is abandoning are long standing treaties which are covered else where by more comprehensive agreements. "For example: We has a treaty about the protection of wild animals which bound our nation to not hunt endangered animals. And then we had a more comprehensive treaty which talked about natural conservation and also bound our nation to not hunting endangered animals. So we went with the more comprehensive Natural conservation treaty, and scrapped the more specific one."

Probably the more important treaty being abandoned is the long standing Kalistan-Lodamun Naval Cooperation Treaty which Kalistan signed with Lodamun hundreds of years ago but which Lodamun has since abandoned. "We communicated with contacts in the Lodamun Government who expressed no immediate interest in rejoining that agreement, so it was easy to abrogate it on this side," said Brewer. "No point in our binding ourselves to a partner who don't even know that we have bound ourselves to them." The Foreign Minister expressed optimism that a new Naval Cooperation Treaty might be concluded, but did not give any details.

"However, we are also supporting, in principle, the Reissued Yamashima DeGrowth Statement (YDS2), which will align us with zero-growth and degrowth economies across Terra," said Brewer. "Kalistan's zero-Growth measures are sited in the treaty itself. Working with others to make this a more common way of economic organization seems to be an excellent idea."

The Foreign Minister did not rule out additional treaty paring to come, but say a net negative 14 is enough for now. Both bills are expected to pass easily by the end of September.