The League of Armed Neutrality (FT alliance)
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:52 am
The League of Armed Neutrality
STATED PURPOSE:
PROTECTING the commerce and trade of neutral nations.
RECOGNIZING the right of commerce of all states to pass freely between stars and planets.
DECLARING that signatory states will not submit to unreasonable restrictions on trade.
DEFENDING the rights and interests of signatory nations.
Section I: ALLIANCE AND DEFENSE OF SIGNATORY STATES
Article 1
Signatory states are considered as part of the League of Armed Neutrality, a defensive alliance intended to deter aggression by parties at war with one another and those seeking to infringe on the sovereignty of signatory states.
a.) Member states shall make reasonable efforts to assist and defend fellow signatory nations from aggression.
b.) Member states are not required to assist should a member state act aggressively by issuing a declaration of war without presentation of significant and verifiable causus belli or attacking a signatory or non-signatory state.
c.) In cases of one signatory declaring war on another, except by a 2/3 vote of all active signatory members, no action will be required by any signatory state. However, the aggressor state may be ejected from the alliance.
Article 2
A signatory state shall no longer be considered as part of the League of Armed Neutrality should they enter into an aggressive war on behalf of an alliance which is not part the League of Armed Neutrality. Further, states forming or joining an alliance created with an expressly aggressive intent will not be permitted to join, or will be ejected from, the alliance.
This is in recognition of the fact that neutrality is a key concept in the formulation of this pact.
a.) An alliance is, for the purposes of this article, considered as any binding contract of mutual military assistance.
b.) By a 2/3 vote of signatory members, the League may declare support of a non-aggressive war in support of another state. However, members of any belligerent party taking part in the conflict will be excluded from the vote.
Article 3
States currently at war may not join the League until hostilities have ceased. States which engage in a war of aggression shall receive no aid from the League unless it is determined that sufficient casus belli was established.
a.) However, non-signatory, neutral, states may appeal to the League for assistance in regards to shipping and commerce.
b.) 'Casus belli' is defined as aggressive acts intended to provoke war, such as the raiding of commerce, planets and possessions of a state. A 2/3 vote shall be required for the League to act in such a case.
c.) Further, entry to the league may be denied should a state be determined to have a past record of aggression.
Section II: THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRAL STATES IN REGARDS TO COMMERCE
Article 1
The chief purpose of the League is to firmly establish the right of signatory and neutral states to trade with whosoever they may wish. This article sets forth that trade vessels of neutral states may travel freely between stars and planets, recognizing that the claimants of those bodies may be at war.
a.) This naturally excludes zones regarded as off-limits to civilian traffic, such as military starbases, restricted research areas and so on.
Article 2
Articles belonging to combative states, while aboard neutral ships, will not be seized, despoiled, destroyed, impeded in transit or in any way be considered spoils of war, with the exception of goods prohibited specifically by interdiction.
Article 3
Articles under interdiction shall be considered only as such are armaments and military supplies or provisions.
a.) Medical, relief, and other aid supplies are considered non-military so long as the recipient agrees that they will only be employed for humanitarian, non-military purposes. Should a member-state discover that a belligerent is employing such supplies for military purposes, it is their responsibility to cease shipments.
Section III: THE RIGHTS OF BELLIGERENT STATES
Article 1
Signatory states recognize the right of belligerent states to interfere with the military infrastructure and, to a limited degree, the commerce of enemy states, and shall respect blockades and interdiction.
a.) Blockades and interdiction shall be considered only such as are occasioned by the physical presence of a ship or ships.
b.) Further, the League will only recognize blockades and interdiction of individual celestial bodies, for example, planets, moons and asteroids, or upon sections thereof. The League will not recognize system-wide, nor cross-galaxy, blockades, nor the right of interdiction of states who establish them.
Article 2
Further, states recognize that captains who choose to attempt to bypass blockades and interdiction while in possession of restricted goods does so at their own risk.
Article 3
Signatory states will not ship, sell, or otherwise seek to supply belligerent states with arms, the means to manufacture arms, or any other military supplies.
a.) "Military supplies" shall be defined by the attached list of armaments, ammunition, vehicles, warships, equipment and devices. See appendix C.
Section IV: ENFORCEMENT OF THE TREATY
Article 1
This treaty shall be held as law and govern the verdicts of the courts of law, such as may exist, within signatory nations which have jurisdiction over piracy and the dispensation of plundered goods.
Article 2
Both signatory and non-signatory states who violate the terms of this treaty, as applied to combatants, will find themselves the subject of the displeasure of the signatories of the League.
a.) Holding to the general terms of neutrality, declarations of war by the League are to be limited and all other avenues explored to resolve the conflict before violence is considered.
Section V: Legislature
Article 1
The League Council shall be composed of one councilor from each member state, whose purpose will be to resolve conflicts between member states, appoint and dismiss League officials, discuss and pass legislature related to the League and, should the occasion arise, issue condemnations, sanctions and declarations of war.
a.) Each representative shall have one vote in the League's legislative body.
b.) Representatives may be appointed in whatever way their state desires.
c.) The League Council will meet at the previously constructed facility within the Red Palace on Mars.
Article 2
In order to pass a piece of legislature, at least 1/2 of the full membership of the League must vote. A simple majority is required to pass.
Article 3
Should it prove necessary, the Legislature will be responsible for the appointment of League officers, including admirals and generals for combined military forces, League executive officers and similar.
Section VI: RESOLVE
Signatory states hereby hold that they are resolved to adhere to the cause and spirit of armed neutrality, and will not seek to engage in aggressive war, nor encourage others to do so, nor provoke states to war.
However, it is made clear that signatory states will not suffer, nor allow their fellows to suffer, indignity or oppression imposed by warring nations upon uninvolved parties. Commerce and trade are the sovereign right of all states and the lifeblood of any interstellar economy, and the restriction of that commerce by warring parties is held as unjust and ill-advised. It is therefore further resolved that, barring a diplomatic solution, the League may engage in military actions if it is deemed to be in the spirit of the preservation of its member states.
SIGNATORY PARTIES
Tsar Nicholas IX, Emperor and Autocrat of All Russias - The Russian Empire
STATED PURPOSE:
PROTECTING the commerce and trade of neutral nations.
RECOGNIZING the right of commerce of all states to pass freely between stars and planets.
DECLARING that signatory states will not submit to unreasonable restrictions on trade.
DEFENDING the rights and interests of signatory nations.
Section I: ALLIANCE AND DEFENSE OF SIGNATORY STATES
Article 1
Signatory states are considered as part of the League of Armed Neutrality, a defensive alliance intended to deter aggression by parties at war with one another and those seeking to infringe on the sovereignty of signatory states.
a.) Member states shall make reasonable efforts to assist and defend fellow signatory nations from aggression.
b.) Member states are not required to assist should a member state act aggressively by issuing a declaration of war without presentation of significant and verifiable causus belli or attacking a signatory or non-signatory state.
c.) In cases of one signatory declaring war on another, except by a 2/3 vote of all active signatory members, no action will be required by any signatory state. However, the aggressor state may be ejected from the alliance.
Article 2
A signatory state shall no longer be considered as part of the League of Armed Neutrality should they enter into an aggressive war on behalf of an alliance which is not part the League of Armed Neutrality. Further, states forming or joining an alliance created with an expressly aggressive intent will not be permitted to join, or will be ejected from, the alliance.
This is in recognition of the fact that neutrality is a key concept in the formulation of this pact.
a.) An alliance is, for the purposes of this article, considered as any binding contract of mutual military assistance.
b.) By a 2/3 vote of signatory members, the League may declare support of a non-aggressive war in support of another state. However, members of any belligerent party taking part in the conflict will be excluded from the vote.
Article 3
States currently at war may not join the League until hostilities have ceased. States which engage in a war of aggression shall receive no aid from the League unless it is determined that sufficient casus belli was established.
a.) However, non-signatory, neutral, states may appeal to the League for assistance in regards to shipping and commerce.
b.) 'Casus belli' is defined as aggressive acts intended to provoke war, such as the raiding of commerce, planets and possessions of a state. A 2/3 vote shall be required for the League to act in such a case.
c.) Further, entry to the league may be denied should a state be determined to have a past record of aggression.
Section II: THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRAL STATES IN REGARDS TO COMMERCE
Article 1
The chief purpose of the League is to firmly establish the right of signatory and neutral states to trade with whosoever they may wish. This article sets forth that trade vessels of neutral states may travel freely between stars and planets, recognizing that the claimants of those bodies may be at war.
a.) This naturally excludes zones regarded as off-limits to civilian traffic, such as military starbases, restricted research areas and so on.
Article 2
Articles belonging to combative states, while aboard neutral ships, will not be seized, despoiled, destroyed, impeded in transit or in any way be considered spoils of war, with the exception of goods prohibited specifically by interdiction.
Article 3
Articles under interdiction shall be considered only as such are armaments and military supplies or provisions.
a.) Medical, relief, and other aid supplies are considered non-military so long as the recipient agrees that they will only be employed for humanitarian, non-military purposes. Should a member-state discover that a belligerent is employing such supplies for military purposes, it is their responsibility to cease shipments.
Section III: THE RIGHTS OF BELLIGERENT STATES
Article 1
Signatory states recognize the right of belligerent states to interfere with the military infrastructure and, to a limited degree, the commerce of enemy states, and shall respect blockades and interdiction.
a.) Blockades and interdiction shall be considered only such as are occasioned by the physical presence of a ship or ships.
b.) Further, the League will only recognize blockades and interdiction of individual celestial bodies, for example, planets, moons and asteroids, or upon sections thereof. The League will not recognize system-wide, nor cross-galaxy, blockades, nor the right of interdiction of states who establish them.
Article 2
Further, states recognize that captains who choose to attempt to bypass blockades and interdiction while in possession of restricted goods does so at their own risk.
Article 3
Signatory states will not ship, sell, or otherwise seek to supply belligerent states with arms, the means to manufacture arms, or any other military supplies.
a.) "Military supplies" shall be defined by the attached list of armaments, ammunition, vehicles, warships, equipment and devices. See appendix C.
Section IV: ENFORCEMENT OF THE TREATY
Article 1
This treaty shall be held as law and govern the verdicts of the courts of law, such as may exist, within signatory nations which have jurisdiction over piracy and the dispensation of plundered goods.
Article 2
Both signatory and non-signatory states who violate the terms of this treaty, as applied to combatants, will find themselves the subject of the displeasure of the signatories of the League.
a.) Holding to the general terms of neutrality, declarations of war by the League are to be limited and all other avenues explored to resolve the conflict before violence is considered.
Section V: Legislature
Article 1
The League Council shall be composed of one councilor from each member state, whose purpose will be to resolve conflicts between member states, appoint and dismiss League officials, discuss and pass legislature related to the League and, should the occasion arise, issue condemnations, sanctions and declarations of war.
a.) Each representative shall have one vote in the League's legislative body.
b.) Representatives may be appointed in whatever way their state desires.
c.) The League Council will meet at the previously constructed facility within the Red Palace on Mars.
Article 2
In order to pass a piece of legislature, at least 1/2 of the full membership of the League must vote. A simple majority is required to pass.
Article 3
Should it prove necessary, the Legislature will be responsible for the appointment of League officers, including admirals and generals for combined military forces, League executive officers and similar.
Section VI: RESOLVE
Signatory states hereby hold that they are resolved to adhere to the cause and spirit of armed neutrality, and will not seek to engage in aggressive war, nor encourage others to do so, nor provoke states to war.
However, it is made clear that signatory states will not suffer, nor allow their fellows to suffer, indignity or oppression imposed by warring nations upon uninvolved parties. Commerce and trade are the sovereign right of all states and the lifeblood of any interstellar economy, and the restriction of that commerce by warring parties is held as unjust and ill-advised. It is therefore further resolved that, barring a diplomatic solution, the League may engage in military actions if it is deemed to be in the spirit of the preservation of its member states.
SIGNATORY PARTIES
Tsar Nicholas IX, Emperor and Autocrat of All Russias - The Russian Empire