Executive Minister Susan Polster calls for World Anti-Militarization Summit.
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Executive Minister Susan Polster has just announced that she is calling for a summit of world leaders to discuss rapid over-militarization in the last century and ways to reduce it going into the current one. Following the dedication of the Layfet-North Rukonia Friendship Garden in Nordipolica, Polster gave a speech regarding the need for the summit calling for many of the world's nations to reduce their militaries. Her speech also included a statement that to many world powers thrust their economies and culture behind their militaries, to the detriment to the advancement of their citizens. Polster concluded that military actions, war, and bragging about military accomplishments have all too become the norm for diplomacy in international spaces and world news, which influenced her decision to call for the summit.
Executive Minister Front-runner and Director of Layfet State Affairs Fraiser K. Crane says that the summit will be held in the recently constructed Tonnes Tower in Tonnes, which was completed last year and is now Layfet's tallest building standing at 946 feet. "The entire building is currently rented out by the government, and after the summit will be turned over for public use. I don't expect to use the entire building due to how I see the turnout will be" Crane gave in a statement. Crane, despite working for both the previous Executive Minister Edmond Dantes and Polster has been a long spoken critic of demilitarization in Layfet including the highly controversial Layfet-Sunrisia Compact of Naval Association.
Public Support of the summit isn't in Polster's favor either, with a recent report done by the Tonnes Times showing only 49 percent of individuals across the nation support it, with several interviewed persons saying that it will essentially be useless as many say that most nations might not even send delegates. "Layfet might have influence on the international stage, despite us (the country) being so small, but that's not enough to get the world to start reducing their militaries" said one interviewee. Polster remains hopeful however, stating that "the big players would show, because if not, they would understandable look pro war". She also says that she has some political clout too, with formers EM Dantes, Faith Miller, and Laura Howell all attending the summit.
Crane and half the public aren't the only opponents of the summit however, as other EM 2020 candidates including Anne Fitch, Anthony Benson, and Arthur Morris call the summit dangerous, with Morris in particular saying that it "might bring up old war tensions and military show offs, and we have no interest in spreading that. We never fought in a world war and our last war was in the 80s, we don't know how deep those scars are."
Only time will tell if any nation will be willing to attend Polster's summit or if any talk will come of it. With barely a year into her Executive Ministership, Polster definitely is trying to stir up the political game.
