Nadiya-Kalistan talks on opening Diplomatic channels

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Lady Marisol Paz Alvarez-Navarro, Marquess
For Empire of Ananto and Kalistan

Well, for starters, we do not assume that democracies are stable at all. Quite the contrary, you change your governments at regular intervals. We understand that democracies consider this a feature. You will forgive us if we simply disagree, politely, and hand wave this difference of opinion.

We are more concerned about the guarantees that our representatives will not be subject to capricious detention. Even your own Tsarina was not immune from house arrest and of course we will be but foreigners and guests. Her Imperial Majesty would like regular relations between our nations: We find ourselves as parties to the same regional agreements concluded in Altea, and will be competing with one another at the upcoming Olympics. I believe we have a solid foundation to build upon.

Furthermore, Her Imperial Majesty will offer your Nation a formal apology for the offense her predecessors gave to your nation in the past. She does not seek to justify their words. They said what they said and they would not have apologized for those words themselves, but as long as the attitudes of now deceased monarchs lay as an outstanding grievance between our two nations, Her Imperial Majesty would endeavor to settle that grievance with an official acknowledgement of the rift our nation caused between us, a sincere regret for that rift and the consequences of alienation that it caused, and a hope that we may cooperatively take steps to heal it and move beyond it.

We would like to first open a consulate in Zarvosopol to begin assisting Kalistani citizens and travelers to your nation. The Consulate will be merely an office through which to offer visa services and traveler and legal assistance, as well as to serve as a point of contact for our Nadiyan counterparts, as a first step toward the establishment of a more formal diplomatic presence in the near future. We would invite the Government of Nadiya to do the same in Kaliburg, so that we can begin to work out the various bilateral arrangements necessary to regularize things like travel, commerce, telecommunications and the mail between our two nations.

That is Her Imperial Majesty's goal at this discussion.