Norterra Summit (Keris War)

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Lady Ericka Donahue, Chancellor of the Empire, Ananto and Kalistan

*after sitting through the screed of the Trigunian representative*

Anyhow.

As these nations are making demands, Kalistan commits to removing its troops once a final settlement is reached. This is a no brainer: I believe this point was demanded by the Kizenian representative, and goes without saying. We are not interested in an occupation of Kizenia, and it is the sincerest desire of Our Emperor and Empress that the Kizenian military mission be ended.

But we cannot do so as long as the status of Kizenia, and its role in a larger Kerisian Empire, remains an outstanding question here. A unified Keris under Egelian leadership poses a security threat to Kalistan. The Egelian Representative has asked us to simply assume good will from Egelion. But we have to ask, why? Egelion does nothing that it has asked Kalistan about first. Egelion acts in a way that assumes that it is acting in a vacuum. And Egelion has already here dismissed Kalistani opposition as 'paranoia.' This shows that Egelion is not even operating here in good faith. Why should we assume there will be any difference when our Northern Regular Army leaves southern Kizenia?

And of course Trigunia will agree wholeheartedly with Egelion: they are currently in Egelion's pocket. If Kizenia wants a view of their future under Egelion's proposal, all they need to do is look at the state of Trigunia.

We reject the Egelian fait accompli which was presented before this conference began. We realize that Egelion rushed it so they alone could set the agenda. But Kalistan will simply say this: Any terms of peace must be negotiated here, from proposals made here. If there is to be a peaceful settlement which leaves Kizenia free of the external influence and completely independent and self-determinant, it must come from terms we set here.

Many of Egelion's interests are legitimate: they mirror many of Kalistan's own. Surely there is some common ground that we can reach here, but if we are just presented with a list of demands from Egelion regarding the fate of Kizenia that only reflect the positions of Egelion and their communistic sycophantic lackies in Trigunia, and we are supposed to simply accept them, Kalistan has no room to negotiate around that. It is obvious that Egelion would like a free hand in a dependent and puppetted Kizenia, and Keris as a whole. Kalistan is not content to allow that to happen without gaining concessions from Egelion that protect our own national security in the process from an aggressively imperialistic Egelion.