As growing tensions between Azovskaya and Arizayi have developed not only into armed clashes, but have now transitioned into an armed conflict involving official declarations of war from the parties, Aestin and Jamestown have already been in early talks of mediating truce between the countries. There are hopes to repeat the same success that Sunrisia and the USJR reached in Uszwa and where a truce has managed to last for a long time, up until some recent reports of cease-fire violations, something that the parties will also likely get back to fixing very soon.
Following a military coup in Azovskaya, the USJR quickly allied itself with the new leadership, even taking up the responsibility of actually placing Azovskaya under the USJR military protection. Although this fact might already signal that the Mortimer administration’s actions might mean that the USJR no longer possesses one of the basic qualities that a potential inter-party mediator should have, which is no biases and no favoritisms towards either one party over the other, a spokesperson for President Sánît Béâtídá said that this could actually be used as a positive factor. He said that the USJR’s military protection of Azovskaya acts as a deterrent to the possibility that a new front in this war might be opened on the Azovskayan territory, which means that a risk of the war’s escalation decreases with a limited possibility of the Arizayi counter-invasion of Azovskaya. In addition, it increases the USJR’s influence in Azovskaya, which means that Jamestown might potentially convince Novorossiysk to be open to the truce.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Sunrisia would try to stand behind the back of Arizayi and Aestin would likely identically be able to consult and convince Iksaya to open itself up to the truce as well. With continuing cooperative efforts, hope remains that Aestin and Jamestown might succeed in bringing the parties to cease hostility and switch to diplomacy.
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- Sunrisia prepares to adopt free universal healthcare.
- The Béâtídá administration lays out framework for full legalization of dual citizenship, without requiring citizens to request for it in special cases any longer.
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- Sunrisia expresses concern over the situation in Yosija.
- The Béâtídá administration makes early statements that Sunrisia is ready to negotiate another cease-fire in Uszwa with the USJR, in case the current one falls apart.
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