[IC] [TWI-Only] The League of TWI (Assembly)

[Volkegoth]

"Atrocious, oh this is going to be good. Okay. To begin, if anyone for some reason doesn't know, an Athara Magarati vessel launched a missile into Volkegoth territory which stuck the city of Grohand, killing twenty-four, I believe. In response, the Volkegothic Navy sunk two Athara Magarati ships in the Lotus and damaged another. We have yet to receive evidence that any of the injured or dead were members of SHOCK."

[Polar Svalbard]

Stephanie looked towards the Volkegoth delegate, "Evidently the question isn't whether either of you are right or wrong. The question is whether or not this will flare up into something greater, which is what we are trying to prevent. I'd like to put forward that both sides were justified, Athara Magarat court martialed a rouge ship, although that doesn't mean Volkegoth was wrong in retaliation. I believe we should leave it at that."

Stephanie looked towards the SG, "It might be best if Athara Magarat was invited to attend this. It would be much easier if they had just stayed in the League considering we talk about them so much."

[Verona Beach]

"I second the suggestion of the honourable delegate from Polar Svalbard. The Mesder is unstable already without tossing a war against the JEF and possibly other alliances."

[Volkegoth]

"I agree. If they do not wish to remain in the league, however, the least they could do is send a temporary observer to discuss the situation."

[Jinlong Dynasty]

Zhou Wei, then walks back to his delegate chair, straightening his tie, and then leans forward to the mic:

"Delegates of Volkegoth and many of you, I the Ambassador of Jinlong Dynasty will announce both sides, regarding the conflict or time. Will not accept this and call both sides to withdraw its arms, like what Delegate Stephanie said, I too second the suggestion."

Zhou Wei then looks at Arthemesian Delegate and then turns to his delegate, asking him to get more water.

[Volkegoth]

"I want to make it clear, Volkegoth will not act in aggressive stance unless acted upon in the same manner. Now as for the individual who claims responsibility for the attack, Ludo Bahadur Dura, Volkegoth will be demanding extradition of the individual for investigation and to stand on trial for the murder of twenty-four Volkegothic citizens. Co-operation with Athara Magarat will bring this situation to a better position a lot quicker, and with a lot less bloodshed."

[Belle Ilse en Terre]

"I agree, Athara Magarat should also be present, to ease the peace making process- so aggravated by---." Giles paused, realising he might be going a bit far. "As for the atrocious acts, Volkegoth's intemperate decisions to threaten anything within an excessively large area is absurd. The Volkegothic Navy has shown a tendency to shoot first and run away before it suffers the consequences. If JEF, the MSTO, or the C6 decide to intervene on Athara Magarat's side now, Volkegoth will immediately surrender. I do not criticise Volkegoth's demand for extradition, but their retribution was inhumane. Why should the sailors of the Chepang and Thakali be rewarded with death for the actions of one? Peace cannot be attained with such belligerence."

[Arthemesia]

Charles would smirk as he noticed the reaction of some delagates. He would continue to listen as he jotted down notes, listening carefully.

[Jinlong Dynasty]

Zhou Wei stands from his chair, interupting what’s happening, bringing an off-topic prospoal, “Delegates, sorry to interupt but right now, I know now is not the time. First of all, I’d loke to introduce Trans-Argus Coperation Trade (TACT), replacing RTEA, Which will exclusively introduce new reforms, and more benefitcal trade deals for each countries. We the Grand Republic of Jinlong Dynasty, is happy to have talks with other delegates. As this is not an attempt to assert power but to make trades more benefitical and less unbalanced for other states, as well as having free trades. We hope other delegates will accept if not, then I have made myself a fool.”

Zhou Wei, then lifts his glass of water and takes a sip, then pauses for a second. Again, he continoues his speech. “Replacing RTEA, and introducing the all-new deal with lots of benefits for other nations as well as elimation of tariffs, securing trade services from border to border and so on. Thank you.”

Zhou Wei, then stands down to his delegate chair, and places his headphones to understand what other delegates are saying since he only speak little English.

[Great-Imperialonia]

Yoon-Bum mentally shrugs as the unimpressive Jinlong delegate enters the Assembly and spends half the time chit-chatting with his guards.

"Considering that there seems to be a concensus on the lack of prudence involved with giving an automous region international recognition by allowing it to witness the Assembly's meetings, I believe we can duly move on to the next topic."

Zhou Wei, then stands up from his delegate chair, walking towards Imperialonian Delegate, with a smile and says:

“Hello, Delegate Storm, it’s great to see you. Oh and to the success of our Royal Marriage. His Majesty Emperor Li Jianyu of Jinlong Dynasty, personally sends a message to your Viceroy on behalf of great success and may the good fortune be with you.” He’d bow in respect then offers a handshake gesture, giving a warm smile.

Storm looked up, he was right, this was to be a good ally.

"Thank you dear delegate, I will be sure to communicate your message and work together towards mutual agreements."

[Arthemesia]

Zhou Wei stands from his chair, interupting what’s happening, bringing an off-topic prospoal, “Delegates, sorry to interupt but right now, I know now is not the time. But we should and must introduce the ‘Organisation of Argus States’ which is an organisation that aims to economically and diplomatically bring forth peace with many benefits with the possibtly of establishing Argus-Nations Only Bases and to establish good relations within Argus Region, both Central and South Argus with it’s surrounding islands, which will allow the Argus Nations to combat the threat of Terrorism such as SHOCK, with co-operation. Additionally, the Introduction of Trans-Argus Coperation Trade (TACT), replacing the old, outdated RTEA. Which will exclusively introduce new reforms, and more benefitcal trade deals for each countries. We the Grand Republic of Jinlong Dynasty, is happy to have talks with other delegates. As this is not an attempt to assert power but to make trades more benefitical and less unbalanced for other states, as well as having free trades.”

Zhou Wei, then lifts his glass of water and takes a sip, then pauses for a second. Again, he continoues his speech. “Replacing RTEA, and introducing the all-new deal with lots of benefits for other nations as well as elimation of tariffs, securing trade services from border to border and so on. Thank you.”

Zhou Wei, then stands down to his delegate chair, and places his headphones to understand what other delegates are saying since he only speak little English.

Shocked, Charlie would stand up as well.
"Not only was it rude to interupt the speaker with matters nowhere near close to important as such, but I would also like to imply Arthemesia would not join any group like that, due to it surely infringe on the nations sovereignty."

[Ostehaar]

"Mr. Zhou Wei," Tomas said calmly, "in these halls we wait for our fellow delegates to finish their discussion. Please have some patience, and I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't go straight to degrading other people's work."

[Dormill and Stiura]

Clearing her throat, Hambelton finally made her remarks, "What had happened was beyond necessary, but I believe that we should return to the topic at hand regarding the present conflict between Volkegoth and Athara Magarat." After referring to her notes, she continued, "It is in the opinion of both myself and the Government of the United Estates that the actions against Athara Magarat from Volkegoth were both justified and necessary. No sensible leader would simply allow an attack on their own land to go unpunished, and considering the web of alliances that currently stands on the side of Athara Magarat, a military strike was the most reasonable choice as economic sanctions or political condemnation would've gone either unnoticed or have no impact whatsoever. That being said, I do agree with the honorable delegate of Belle Ilse en Terre in that Athara Magarati involvement in these discussions, to whatever capacity is possible, is preferable to an expansion of the conflict in a region already devastated by insurrections and wars."

[Athara Magarat]

Halima Rantijova sighed. "I guess our wish to seek membership of the League will not be guaranteed then..."

The woman from Kachee Sultanate tidied her hijab and decided to leave the League room. It was then that she met another woman in hijab who was just arriving.

"Jrm Hangma, how nice to meet you here..." Halima gave her fake smile. "Are you here to beg for membership in the League?"

"So says the one who was just doing so. And miserably failed to garner any support." Jrm Hangma gave a quick reply that silenced Halima. The man beside the Hangma also gave a disgusted look to Halima.

"Separatist ideals will not be tolerated by our government, lady." The man grunted. "Go and tell the Sultan he can run his small keep any way he wants...but to remember that he is not the Hang of the country."

Then Jrm Hangma embraced Halima. "Farewell, Ms Rantijova. Take care of the Sultan."

After Halima Rantijova from Kachee Sultanate had gone her way, Jrm Hangma returned her focus to the delegates. "It is nice to be back here. The woman named Jyoti Thapa who came her in the past as a defense minister is dead for the moment. And to start, on the behalf of our nation and her people, I apologize to Volkegoth for the tragedy that could have been prevented. But Mr Dura was right that there indeed was a SHOCK hideout in Grohand. Our sleeper agents have confirmed that...now don't be surprised delegates, we all use agents on one another. Ostehaar, Atnaia and Polar Svalbard probably the well-known offenders of this but all of us do it secretly. We have discovered more EUSR agents posing as Bhikkustani refugees than SHOCK recruits. Even our benevolent neighbor Miklania uses Khas-Kirati people who have spread far and wide as agents and we are simply doing the same..."

[Cantonos]

Yoon-Bum would look around for cameras, secretly hoping for a crew of television pranksters to jump out and declare that the whole session had been a premeditated joke on him. "Why does this person have to drink water between sentences" and "Why does this person have to interject into productive debate" and "Why does this person think that trade pacts are relevant to the League's jurisdiction" where thoughts that clouded Yoon-Bum's mind as he wondered whether there were more delegates who had no idea where they were and what they were doing. He snapped out this trail of thought and cleared his throat berfore leaning into his mic.

"I believe this sabre-rattling by the Ilsean delegation is an affront to the League's efforts to maintain peace and stability in the area, and as such we suggest that he doesn't incite further violence by floating the idea of a full-scale intervention into a fellow memberstate. Furthermore, we strongly disagree with any notion which would require the Athara Magarati government of extraditing the perpetrator in question, and stress that it shouldn't be the place of the League to regulate or impose such treaties between two sovereign countries. It is in the opinion of the Cantonosian government that considering the Athara Magarati Lieutenant is both a serviceman and a citizen of this state, that it should be according to their laws that he should be prosecuted to the extent of Athara Magarati military justice system. It would be shameful if the League would go as far as infringing upon a states' sovereignty by emasculating it's judiciary and penal code."

[Keomora]

Clearing her throat, Hambelton finally made her remarks, "What had happened was beyond necessary, but I believe that we should return to the topic at hand regarding the present conflict between Volkegoth and Athara Magarat." After referring to her notes, she continued, "It is in the opinion of both myself and the Government of the United Estates that the actions against Athara Magarat from Volkegoth were both justified and necessary. No sensible leader would simply allow an attack on their own land to go unpunished, and considering the web of alliances that currently stands on the side of Athara Magarat, a military strike was the most reasonable choice as economic sanctions or political condemnation would've gone either unnoticed or have no impact whatsoever. That being said, I do agree with the honorable delegate of Belle Ilse en Terre in that Athara Magarati involvement in these discussions, to whatever capacity is possible, is preferable to an expansion of the conflict in a region already devastated by insurrections and wars."

"I would digress," said Zhou, turning over his notes" a military strike simply escalated the issue. If they had simply issued a condemnation and appealed here they would have the support, after all they were a peaceful state that unlawfully and unilaterally attacked by a foreign state. Now, instead of being a victim Volkogoth appears more like a rabid dog prepared to attack anything within her waters, even if it has just cause." She turned to the Volkoegohian diplomat.
"Furthermore the people of Keomora would like to issue a formal and sincere apology to the civilians who were injured or died to the airstrike. Now to more formal matters I believe that the request of extradition is unnecessary. I have full confidence that the government of Athara Magarat will dispense justice on her citizen.

[Miklania]

Clearing her throat, Hambelton finally made her remarks, "What had happened was beyond necessary, but I believe that we should return to the topic at hand regarding the present conflict between Volkegoth and Athara Magarat." After referring to her notes, she continued, "It is in the opinion of both myself and the Government of the United Estates that the actions against Athara Magarat from Volkegoth were both justified and necessary. No sensible leader would simply allow an attack on their own land to go unpunished, and considering the web of alliances that currently stands on the side of Athara Magarat, a military strike was the most reasonable choice as economic sanctions or political condemnation would've gone either unnoticed or have no impact whatsoever. That being said, I do agree with the honorable delegate of Belle Ilse en Terre in that Athara Magarati involvement in these discussions, to whatever capacity is possible, is preferable to an expansion of the conflict in a region already devastated by insurrections and wars."

"I would digress," said Zhou, turning over his notes" a military strike simply escalated the issue. If they had simply issued a condemnation and appealed here they would have the support, after all they were a peaceful state that unlawfully and unilaterally attacked by a foreign state. Now, instead of being a victim Volkogoth appears more like a rabid dog prepared to attack anything within her waters." She turned to the Volkoegohian diplomat.
"Furthermore the people of Keomora would like to issue a formal and sincere apology to the civilians who were injured or died to the airstrike. Now to more formal matters I believe that the request of extradition is unnecessary. I have full confidence that the government of Athara Magarat will dispense justice on her citizen.

"I must disagree, sir." Dominic said, finally adding the Miklanian opinion. "The Volkegothic response was entirely justifiable. That attack was an act of war. Removing what had to be interpreted as threats under the circumstances from striking range of their population was necessary. The use of force was, by comparison to all out war, restrained. I would like to commend Volkegoth for showing such restraint. It is our opinion that they would have been within their rights to declare war, which would only end with greater destruction." He paused to let his words sink in. "I assure you, Mr. Zhou, if such an attack were to happen on Miklanian soil the platform that launched the attack would have been hunted down and destroyed with extreme prejudice, and the government responsible taken to task, one way or another."

[Polar Svalbard]

Stephanie noted in her notes to deal with the insolent delegate from the Jinlong Dynasty after this conversation ended, "I must agree with my counter part from Miklania. In the end I would like to see Athara Magarat extradite the man responsible for this to Volkegoth. I see no need for there to be reparations monetarily as both sides lost people and economic value. It is in my belief that these are fair terms to end this dispute. While I do not like the thought that two ships worth of men died because of one man, 24 civilians died because of one man, Volkegoth was in the right but I hope they will stay that way and will work with the League to assuage this diplomatic incident."

[Volkegoth]

"I couldn't agree more," Glass says as he looks at his Polar Svalbardian counterpart, "The only thing we demand is the extradition of the man responsible. No money, just the man, and we will be glad to work with the League to keep peace in the South Mesder."

[Belle Ilse en Terre]

"I am afraid I must preface my remarks with a defence of my person, and my country. To Her Jrmness Hangma, the Ilse does not spy on other the League members, and the Ilse is not so base as resort to spying on its friends. As to the Cantonesian delegate, we do not rattle sabers, we draw them. I recommend you make a close study of our actions. We secured San Montagnas independence and forced Volkegoth to desist being aggressive securing regional peace until the current incident with Athara Magarat. San Montagna has proved more amicable, with the fascist transition.

I recommend, to secure peace, that we establish a corridor of great size and permit neither side to get near each other. We would discontinue this forbidden area when peace has been attained," Sir Giles declared.

[Great-Imperialonia]

"We agee with Sir Giles. Not only is this good to ensure no more extra blood will be spilled, but also to show the League has concrete power to do something." Storm said.

"Before ambassador Lady Fairglass returns from her business with the Privy Council of his Majesty the Viceroy, I want to mention all the war criminals are ready to be transported to the International Court of Justice, as we promised. This will happen tommorow, so fairly within the agreed time frame we had. The Countess of Seacliff wil return tommorow to fill you in on any questions you may have."

[Volkegoth]

"That seems much more complicated than necessary. Simply handing over the man would resolve the crisis. No need to punish anyone except him."

[Cantonos]

"I fail to understand why a sovereign nation like Athara Magarat, with it's own judiciary and military justice penal code, shouldn't rb able to deal with the apparent treason of it's serviceman. To my understanding, Athara Magarat has no comprehensive extradition treaty with Volkegoth and thus is in no way, and shouldn't be, obliged by any entity -- in particular this hereby gathered assembly -- to hand over it's citizens to a foreign entity which may utterly disregard the rights his homeland guarantees. Or do my fellow delegates suggest this organisation has the right to grossly overreach it's authority by infringing on the sovereignty of a nation?"

[Polar Svalbard]

Stephanie rested her chin on her hands, "Might it be more amiable towards everyone if Athara Magarat handed said person to the League to be tried for war crimes, as opposed to being placed in either nations' courts which could be subject to bias."

[Verdon]

"The league does not have that authority, nor the capacity to make such rulings. Athara Magarat may do as they please with their citizen. The league may broker a deal between Athara Magarat and Volkegoth, but it cannot enforce one."