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Chase Lawford named Ambassador to Xsampa
"Known to sympathize with Socialists", said Her Highness, during credentialing
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
March 1, 5694


His Excellency, Chase Lawford, the New Ambassador Plenipotential and Extraordinaire, Her Imperial Majesty's Ambassador to Xsampa and the Imperial Seat in Kaliburg

Long time foreign service officer and Assistant director of the Dovani Desk at Her Imperial Majesty's Foreign Ministry, Chase Lawford, has been tapped to become the newest Ambassador to the Republic of Xsampa. Lawford was credentialed by Her Highness, the Princess Regent Nicolette Ananto-Collins last week in Formal Audience, attended by both the Chancellor of the Empire, Lady Ericka Donahue and Her Imperial Majesty's Foreign Minister, Sir Thomas Harney at the Imperial Seat in Kaliburg. Following the hour long audience, Her Highness joined Ambassador Lawford in the lobby to offer brief statements to the press.

"Mr. Lawford has worked for the Foreign Ministry for 15 years, 7 of those at the Dovani Desk, where he rose to the level of Assistant Director," said Her Highness, the Princess Regent. "We are confident that he will represent Her Imperial Majesty's Policies toward Xsampa well in his new post." The Princess Regent also added, "We also can report that Ambassador Lawford's political sympathies lie with the socialists. This should allow him to speak with his Xsampan counterparts more effectively. He was tapped because of his experience and knowledge of the region and its players, but him being a socialist when speaking with communists will certainly work in his favor."

Lawford speaks five languages, including Standard Xsampan and Kunikata. He is known as a Dovaniphile, and has personally spent more than a year total over the course of his life touring much of Dovani. "Lawford's affinity for Central Dovani will certainly come in handy as he takes this post," said FM Harney. "With the opening of the Embassy, the Xsampan mission becomes Kalistan's most important diplomatic post in almost an entire hemisphere. The Embassy is expected to have additional desks for many of the active eastern Dovani nations, exactly as the Lourennais Embassy has desks for most Western Dovani Nations. The complex is quite large, and we expect it to be quite busy as our diplomatic attention begins slowly inching its way into Dovani..

The Ambassador said his early schedule will be incredibly busy, as he hires staff for the Embassy, as well as meets with important counterparts in the host nation. "I think the first year or so of Embassy operations in Xsampa will be quite hectic," said Lawford. "it will probably be the most important and consequential job I will have in my entire life, to serve Her Imperial Majesty and the Empire in this Capacity. I want to make sure I do things properly and set our diplomatic mission to Dovani up to succeed. Her Highness has expressed Her Imperial Majesty's feelings that Kalistan doesn't just assume that it has embassies in every single country in the world. We aren't like most nations: We reserve our Embassies for nations who we feel closest to in the world. So it is incredibly important that this is handled well, methodically, and deliberately, and that every decision we make is with the mind toward a permanent Kalistani diplomatic presence in Xsampa and in Dovani, an improved image of our nation abroad, and a method of easy and regular communication between our government and the Xsampan Government."

Ambassador Lawford said Kalistan's first priorities, besides fully staffing and fully opening the Embassy will be to encourage cultural exchange, and look for ways our two nations can trade. "Kalistan wants to ensure that trade is reciprocal, rather than one side or the other creating a surplus/deficit in a trade relationship," said Lawford. "We understand that trade liberalism necessarily always leads to the evils of trade imbalance, as capitalist nations tend to do whatever they possibly can to take advantage of the people who are supposedly their partners for the benefit of their capitalists. Kalistan thankfully doesn't operate that way, and neither, I think does Xsampa. Surely we both can engage in trade that contributes effectively to each of our national development and national economies respectively, without trade imbalances or one side ripping the other one off. I am committed to equity in trade, workers rights, and ethical production; I know Her Highness, the Regent is, and I am certain therefore that Her Imperial Majesty is as well. Armed with this, I am prepared to travel to Xsampa and make credible commitments on trade, culture and security with people who I can speak with far easier than-- and I mean no offense Madame Chancellor, but--our Head of Government, who has an unrelenting antipathy for the Metzist ideology to the point where she can't even stand to be in the same room with them. It's a good thing they have me. I am more than willing to sit down with Communists as a representative of Her Imperial Majesty, our Empress."

Ambassador Lawford will leave this week to take up his post, and he will travel abroad with Her Imperial Majesty's Foreign Minister and a skeleton staff who have already been hired and are relocating with the Primaries. There, the Foreign Minister will tour the consular facilities, arrange the presentation of credentials, and then continue on to Kundrati to discuss relations with Kundrati in Kasaema.

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