Velkanika Officials: MIF Talks Collapse, Oil and Gas Exports Uncapped
By FRANCINE MOULIN, OLIVER JENSEN, PAULA HART
Kuvongrad, Velk. (PAL) – The People’s Republic of Velkanika has announced major increases in their national production quotas and the removal of export limits put in place in response to the oil and financial crisis in January, and simultaneously condemned the Meriq Investment Fund for price manipulation of the Liran and Lovanikan oil and natural gas markets, government officials said Friday.
Velkanikan diplomats broke off secret talks with the oil cartel to limit PRV energy exports after months of no progress on their demands. Officials have also stated that the diplomatic effort was terminated due to MIF’s refusal to consider increasing exports to alleviate global tensions caused by the energy shortfall, which those officials also condemned as being an intentional policy objective of MIF that contradicted Velkanika’s interests in the world.
“Our negotiating positions were irreconcilable, MIF wants to maintain a global energy shortfall to maintain high prices without any regard for what that means for the local security situation in Lovanika and Lira,” said Andrey Sokoloff, Deputy Foreign Minister for Energy Policy. “MIF was promising one thing in the talks, and then never following through. That’s not how you conduct a successful negotiation, and given their lack of sincerity for so long any deal we reached would almost certainly be immediately breeched by their side.”
PRV officials have loudly condemned the MIF sultanates, which will likely result in greater ramifications for diplomatic and economic relations between the MIF member states and Velkanika. Given Velkanika’s standing in the communist International Revolutionary Pact, further global consequences are likely. Velkanikan officials notably declined to invoke the Utkin Doctrine in questions posed by the press and refused to speculate on any military response to the talks ending.
09:45 Kuvongrad Time (UTC+0)
By FRANCINE MOULIN, OLIVER JENSEN, PAULA HART
Kuvongrad, Velk. (PAL) – The People’s Republic of Velkanika has announced major increases in their national production quotas and the removal of export limits put in place in response to the oil and financial crisis in January, and simultaneously condemned the Meriq Investment Fund for price manipulation of the Liran and Lovanikan oil and natural gas markets, government officials said Friday.
Velkanikan diplomats broke off secret talks with the oil cartel to limit PRV energy exports after months of no progress on their demands. Officials have also stated that the diplomatic effort was terminated due to MIF’s refusal to consider increasing exports to alleviate global tensions caused by the energy shortfall, which those officials also condemned as being an intentional policy objective of MIF that contradicted Velkanika’s interests in the world.
“Our negotiating positions were irreconcilable, MIF wants to maintain a global energy shortfall to maintain high prices without any regard for what that means for the local security situation in Lovanika and Lira,” said Andrey Sokoloff, Deputy Foreign Minister for Energy Policy. “MIF was promising one thing in the talks, and then never following through. That’s not how you conduct a successful negotiation, and given their lack of sincerity for so long any deal we reached would almost certainly be immediately breeched by their side.”
PRV officials have loudly condemned the MIF sultanates, which will likely result in greater ramifications for diplomatic and economic relations between the MIF member states and Velkanika. Given Velkanika’s standing in the communist International Revolutionary Pact, further global consequences are likely. Velkanikan officials notably declined to invoke the Utkin Doctrine in questions posed by the press and refused to speculate on any military response to the talks ending.
Meriq Investment Fund Condemns “Economic Sabotage” by Velkanika
By WEBSTER HOBBES, MAJID BOUSAID
Officials from the Meriq Investment Fund have called for a global economic boycott of Velkanika in response to the latter’s announcement that they would no longer limit their energy exports this morning.
Sifkas, Bnnu (PAL) - Bnnu government officials released a statement from the Sultan condemning Velkanika as “a den of liars and cheats seeking the destruction of the global order” in response to Velkanika pulling out of trade talks. The Sultan denied the Velkanikan account of the talks, and condemned the Communist nation as using this as an excuse to attack the monarchy. The Sultan cited President Utkin’s famous 2019 speech on using military force to spread Communism as evidence of their intentions.
The Utkin Doctrine, as the speech is more commonly known now, declared that Velkanika would use military force if needed to protect the spread of Communist and Socialist movements in the world against deprivations from monarchies.
The invocation of the Utkin Doctrine by Bnnu, and by extension MIF due to the influence the sultanate exercises over the organization, drew no comment from Velkanikan government officials.
10:18 Kuvongrad Time (UTC+0)
By WEBSTER HOBBES, MAJID BOUSAID
Officials from the Meriq Investment Fund have called for a global economic boycott of Velkanika in response to the latter’s announcement that they would no longer limit their energy exports this morning.
Sifkas, Bnnu (PAL) - Bnnu government officials released a statement from the Sultan condemning Velkanika as “a den of liars and cheats seeking the destruction of the global order” in response to Velkanika pulling out of trade talks. The Sultan denied the Velkanikan account of the talks, and condemned the Communist nation as using this as an excuse to attack the monarchy. The Sultan cited President Utkin’s famous 2019 speech on using military force to spread Communism as evidence of their intentions.
The Utkin Doctrine, as the speech is more commonly known now, declared that Velkanika would use military force if needed to protect the spread of Communist and Socialist movements in the world against deprivations from monarchies.
The invocation of the Utkin Doctrine by Bnnu, and by extension MIF due to the influence the sultanate exercises over the organization, drew no comment from Velkanikan government officials.
