International Coalition of Nations News Nexus [Attn: ICON]

[Nova Secta]

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The ICON News Nexus

is an official public service of the International Coalition of Nations, a diplomatic, economic, humanitarian and military cooperation organization that aims to e an icon and role model for the world, promoting diplomatic, economic and military cooperation; furthering humanitarian efforts; and promoting and providing for the common defense of its individual member-states. As a function of the Coalition's Department of News Communications, this News Nexus has been established to present the world with updated information about the happenings within ICON; its mission-statement enacted through the actions of its member-states and the examples of cooperation and mutual partnership that establish the Coalition as a hallmark of fraternal unity and of coexistence.

Within the News Nexus, you will find updated stories regarding the machinations of our great Coalition, from the events transpiring within the individual member-states to tales of cooperation and mutual workmanship between the member-states. Important news updates from the Assembly of the Coalition will be covered through the release of official press releases, and all matter of official business can and will be cataloged in this news nexus for posterity sake, that the record may reflect the enduring work of the International Coalition of Nations and the member-states who comprise her glorious ranks. It is hoped that this repository, this compendium of news on the happenings of the Coalition and its work will serve as an exemplar to the nations of the world and represent the good inherent to the mission that ICON seeks to undertake in it.

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• Commonwelath of Europe a Nation
  
• Confederate States of Anagonia
  01.) ICON Would Not Exist Without Him
  02.) CASA/SAAPA Announce Collaboration Program
  03.) First Edition of the ICON Newsletter
  
• Darlingtown
  
• Glorious Dominion of Saescia
  01.) Saescia Announces Cultural Exchange Program
  
• Imperial Principate of Imperia
  
• Janpian Union of Revolutionary States
  
• Kingdom of Sombreland
  
• Republic of Civia Welephilostopia
  
• Romanic Imperuim
  
• State of Neo-Korea
  
• United Kingdom of Goram

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The Glorious Dominion of Saescia has opened the way towards increased cultural exchanges with its fellow International Coalition of Nations member-states following a unanimous decision by the Parliament to invoke the Cultural Exchange Act in allowing citizens of ICON states travel freely to Saescian territory without the need for travel visas. The move also opens the door for foreign students from ICON states to travel to the Glorious Dominion to attend university in the country without a student visa.

The move came early Saturday amidst a wave of new legislation proposals from the ruling Social Democrat caucus aimed at fostering closer diplomatic ties with its new allies within the International Coalition of Nations, which the country formally joined in December of 2022. With support from the opposition Labour front and the small contingent of Christian Democrats, both of whom saw an opportunity to extract future concessions from the Social Democrats, the universal support for the passage marks the first time the Saescian Parliament has achieved the feat since the 1999-2000 budget approval vote.

“This marks a huge turning point for our nation,” the Prime Minister Guinevere Featherington said in a press conference outside of Parliament on Saturday afternoon. “With this vote, we have opened a door to a brand new era of cooperation and friendship with our allies in the International Coalition of Nations.”

“We want the world to know where we stand,” the Prime Minister added, “and where we stand is in the corner of ICON. We believe in its institutions, in its goals, and in its mission statement to the world. We want the Glorious Dominion to have a major role in propagating that vision before the whole of the world.”

The passage of the invocation marks the conclusion of a busy week in Williamstown. On Friday, the press secretary for His Empyreal Majesty the King announced that the royal family would be traveling to Imperia for their upcoming Saturnalia celebrations, the first time the Saescian royals have visited the country in the history of the monarchy. This on the heels of increasingly closer ties with Imperia thanks to the shared commonalities between the two states.

It was a big week for Saescia’s burgeoning space program SAAPA as well thanks to the assistance of the Confederate Aeronautics and Space Administration of the Confederate States of Anagonia, who have announced that four Saescian astronauts will be traveling into outer space on its Buran shuttle orbiter. The opportunity marks the first time Saescians will have traveled into outer space since the late 1990s.

Officials in Williamstown expect that the new cultural exchange status will open the door for foreign participation in this year’s Bacchanalia celebration, to be held during the final week of December leading up to New Year’s Eve. The festival will feature culinary treats from around the Dominion along with liquor and wine selections brought forth by the nation’s top spirit producers and vintners. The Williamstown Philharmonic Orchestra will be providing the week’s entertainment from the Royal Amphitheatre Grounds.

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Sorry for the delay! Here is the 3rd Edition of the ICON Newsletter!

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The Evenguard of Azura has welcomed a new addition to its robust military arsenal through a direct partnership with Royal Marquean Exports. Five brand new airship carrier classes were unveiled Thursday at the Azuri Proving Grounds in Valle Crucis, fulfilling the Evenguard’s long-standing quest to develop workable aerocarriers for deployment in southern Esvanovia. The announcement was made by the acting director of military procurements at a press conference where one of the new behemoths, the PAN Vendetta (DP-2023) was flown for the first time, impressing military analysts and spectators alike. The new dirigibles, known in Azuri parlance as Volors, are the culmination of the ten-year Calcetti Initiative for aerospace defense designs initiated by former First Governess Calixte Vardanyan.

The first five Volors announce include the following airships announced on Thursday morning in Valle Crucis:
▪PAN Valore (DP-1701), a fighter carrier class conveying Super Revenants to and from combat zones
▪PAN Valoroso (DP-1919), a tiltrotor gunship mothership class deigned to convey CAS mission operations
▪PAN Vendetta (DP-2023), a vast drone class platform serving as the fleet's flagship aerocarrier design
▪PAN Vigilanza (DP-2299). a hospital ship class capable of complex medical services and EVAC abilities
▪PAN Vittoria (DP-2525), a Command & Control ship class for battlefield command and ELINT capacity

These new airship variants, part of the Vindicatore-class, will be joined by three other airship classes, including a guided missile carrier, a modular carrier and a cargo hauler. This action will supplement Azura's pre-existing sortie of conventional bombers, fighters, gunships and helicopters currently in service with the Aeronautica Azura, the country's main air forces, and the Marina Azura the country's main naval forces. The country expects a full fleet of Volor airships to be in service by 2030, with construction on newer models slated to continue through the military fiscal year 2050. The first of the airships will roll off their assembly lines later in 2023, with fifteen airships currently in-hangar awaiting finishing and another ten ships preparing to be laid at the aeronautical proving grounds in Valle Crucis.

[Anagonia]

After some delay, here is the 4th Edition of the ICON Newsletter!