29-10-2024, 11:06 PM
Evan Price, Ambassador-at-large to the Northern Seleyan Confederation Plenary Meeting, Commonwealth of Lodamun
Quote:I think that Dame Dumont aptly captures our general feeling about this issue of regional integration. We [Lodamun] have long maintained that there is utility in the region acting as a singular entity on the global stage. Notwithstanding the relative success some have had in capturing the attention of the global community, particularly on matters of positive international diplomacy, our continent remains handicapped when we as individual states attend meetings pertaining to the management of the global system. I point to the failed, yet yeoman attempt by the Kalistani Government towards the adoption of a new global currency framework, via the TMU (Terran Monetary Unit). Where we, as a continent should have jumped at the opportunity to carve out what would have been the first major step towards bringing real, tangible equality to the international economic orders, we were nonetheless greeted by the broad and open attempts of extra-regional territories to drive a wedge between us. These extra-regional territories have long fashioned themselves as being "integral" to the political economy of the continent, yet they exist as mere interlopers. We [Lodamun] contend that this behaviour is more of a consequence of our divided, and disjointed regional context than it is of the "imperialist" ambitions of these states.
The Trans-Seleyan Railway has demonstrated that we are capable of conducting our own affairs and that when we come together as a region, through a common goal, there is no telling what can stop us. Although other nations may not share our perspectives on regional integration, particularly within the context of North Seleya, Lodamun commits itself to the completion of this tentative negotiation process and wishes the government of the Empire of Kalistan and Anato to hold strain. Just as Lodamun was willing to implement the TMU alongside Kalistan alone, so too are we willing to implement this union of North Seleya with Kalistan alone, should there be an unwillingness to do so by other states.