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Kalistani News in Brief: House Ananto announces third Pregnancy
FM expresses "confusion" over Dankuk statement; Readiness drills shift to Northern Anantonese
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
May 3, 5733
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Princess Consort at home in Kaliburg, late April
House Ananto announces third Pregnancy
Her Highness, Princess Jennifer Ananto-Rosenfeld, speaking on behalf of the Royal Family announced that His Imperial Majesty Emperor William II Ananto and Her Highness, the Princess Consort Casey Leigh-Campbell are expecting their third Child. "Apparently my brother and sister in law feel that it is incumbent upon them to supply the world with Anantos enough to make their own Rugby 7s Team," the Princess said, in jest. "All joking aside, the Royal Family is excited for the new arrival, as we are sure the rest of the world is."
The Princess Consort said she is hoping for a boy this time. "We have had two beautiful little girls, but a boy would be welcomed to the house to balance things out a little. But we will have to see what fate sends our way." The pregnancy was planned said the Princess Consort. "Nicolette is three, and Bonnie is two and we decided it was time for another one." The Princess Consort said she enjoys being a mother, and both of the minor princesses have been a joy through their toddler years. "They are such different kids," said the Princess Consort. "Every day is a new experience with these two. Sometimes they are best friends, sometimes the older one wants nothing to do with the younger one, but I suppose that is part of having a sibling. Both girls seem ambivalent about the prospect of having a new baby in the house, though probably Nicolette more than Bonnie, who has said she wants a little sister like Nicolette."
Princess Jennifer said the new baby is due in mid to late December. "It would be quite amazing if (the Princess Consort) had a Yule or a New Years' Baby. But she's still fairly early in her term so within the next couple weeks we should have a much better idea of when the new baby will be born. For now, the Royal Family are just excited and are enjoying the early stages." Princess Jennifer said the Emperor and Princess Consort would like to continue having children into their thirties. "Luckily Cliff House is a large home."
FM expresses "confusion" over Dankuk statement
His Imperial Majesty's Foreign Minister, Sir Miguel Ontiveros, responded to the statement made by his Dankukian counterpart, Baeguk Officer of Foreign Affairs Eulji Yiroun. "It inspires some degree of confusion in me," said Ontiveros. "On the one hand, they called my comment about foreign interventionists into the Dankuk situation an 'insult' and a 'malicious slander' and yet they won the conflict only after accepting billions in foreign aid from the petrostate in Nadiya, as well as untold numbers of foreign mercenaries supplied by both the Luthorian and Nadiyan governments into their armed forces. This is just a fact. The war very well could have gone much differently without the foreign intervention, and we were merely acknowledging that simple fact."
If Kalistan was wrong for repeating facts that the Baeguk papers themselves had supplied, the Foreign Minister said, "We will happily correct the record for our part. But these are reports the Dankuk papers themselves published concerning militaristic intervention by foreign nations into their internal conflicts, as well as the unlimited funneling of more than 5 billion Nadiyan Rubles in assistance to Dankuk during the conflict." This point, Foreign Minister Ontiveros says, "is the one that drives much of my confusion, because they say they did this themselves without any foreign intervention, and then blasted us for intervening in their internal matters. I don't get it. Either mercenaries and materiel support from foreign nations was offered, as they said it was, or it was not and Dankuk truly is 'propped up' by [nothing except] the will of Cheon and the 50 million Baegukese people.' But it can't be both ways at the same time."
FM Ontiveros said he will wait for the government in Dankuk to clarify its statements to say whether foreigners had anything at all to do with the victory of the South against the communist North before further comment from the Empire. "They have called our Ambassador in for interrogation, but Kalistan has not named an ambassador for the nation. We merely maintain Consulate services there, and the Consul General does not have the authority to speak for the Empire in that nation. We would encourage Dankuk to send a representative to Kaliburg, so they may ask us the questions they would have asked an Ambassador were one to exist."
FM Ontiveros added: "Furthermore, we have never recognized the Charter or any authority vested in any world congress, and we explicitly reject any notion of any fictional 'rules-based' international order. We do, however hold state sovereignty and absolute non-intervention in foreign conflict to be guiding principles. Dankuk says they do as well, so perhaps we would have something to speak about after all-- as soon as foreign intervention in Dankuk in the form of foreign mercenaries who have no business intervening in Dovani, and direct materiel aid from Nadiya were to end, that is. We would, after all, prefer those we speak with be consistent in their word and deed."
The Foreign Minister said he would standby for a response from Dankuk regarding their confusing position on the status of foreign interventionists in northwestern Dovani, but is in no real hurry to speak to people who "...capriciously behead their political opponents without due process--even notorious communistical terrorists like the late Ms. Buyeo--with the nation's crown jewels. I don't have to say that the Anantonese Emperor finds this method to be stunningly outrageous, and quite frankly, barbaric."
Readiness drills shift to Northern Anantonese
Last year saw readiness drills in the Schismatic Sea being conducted by the 3rd Imperial Fleet. Numerous areas of improvement were noted, with the fleet as a whole earning an 87% on the standard Regular Force Cumulative Combat Readiness Battery (also known as "RF-CRaB") Now readiness drills have been announced for this summer for the 1st Imperial Fleet, stationed at Bozo River in Ananto. The drills will take place north of the Island, in the seas between Lourenne and Egelion.
His Imperial Majesty's Defense Minister, Col Calvin Velasco, said, "While the 3rd Regular Fleet works to address its deficiencies we are moving our attention to the 1st Imperial Fleet, our flagship fleet and the one responsible for guarding out North Eastern approaches. Our exercises will focus primarily on our subsurface assets, which we will rely upon not only to locate and neutralize enemy surface traffic in time of war, but will be called upon to prevent both troop relocation over the sea via large scale troop transport shipping, but also to attack and sink civilian shipping which will aid any war efforts into the region from outside. The submarine fleets in the Northern Anantonese maintain the reputation as among the most lethal in the world, and we need to make sure they maintain their edge for the defense of our Island and our Seleyan Mainland territories."
According to Col Velasco, the 1st Fleet's theater of operations extends from the Northern Limit of the Ananto Strait through the Sea of Carina west of Seko and in all water between Ananto and Lourenne on the south to the southern shores of Keris in the north. "It's a relatively compact theater of operations meant to complement and work in tandem with the 2nd Fleet which maintains the western half of the Northern Anantonese from the Strait of Karzon to Ananto between Seleya and Keris. But it is incredibly important because if anyone is going to stab Kalistan in the back, this is the approach they will take. The Northeastern Approach is of vital strategic importance, because if we lose this, Ananto is vulnerable to naval gunfire, indiscriminate bombing, and missile and drone attack. So: we need to make sure they never make it to Ananto in the first place."
The Readiness drills will be held between June and the end of the season in late October. Civilian traffic will be advised to avoid areas where drills are taking place, for everyone's safety, and to ensure that civilians are not harmed in Kalistan's readiness operations.
Her Highness, Princess Jennifer Ananto-Rosenfeld, speaking on behalf of the Royal Family announced that His Imperial Majesty Emperor William II Ananto and Her Highness, the Princess Consort Casey Leigh-Campbell are expecting their third Child. "Apparently my brother and sister in law feel that it is incumbent upon them to supply the world with Anantos enough to make their own Rugby 7s Team," the Princess said, in jest. "All joking aside, the Royal Family is excited for the new arrival, as we are sure the rest of the world is."
The Princess Consort said she is hoping for a boy this time. "We have had two beautiful little girls, but a boy would be welcomed to the house to balance things out a little. But we will have to see what fate sends our way." The pregnancy was planned said the Princess Consort. "Nicolette is three, and Bonnie is two and we decided it was time for another one." The Princess Consort said she enjoys being a mother, and both of the minor princesses have been a joy through their toddler years. "They are such different kids," said the Princess Consort. "Every day is a new experience with these two. Sometimes they are best friends, sometimes the older one wants nothing to do with the younger one, but I suppose that is part of having a sibling. Both girls seem ambivalent about the prospect of having a new baby in the house, though probably Nicolette more than Bonnie, who has said she wants a little sister like Nicolette."
Princess Jennifer said the new baby is due in mid to late December. "It would be quite amazing if (the Princess Consort) had a Yule or a New Years' Baby. But she's still fairly early in her term so within the next couple weeks we should have a much better idea of when the new baby will be born. For now, the Royal Family are just excited and are enjoying the early stages." Princess Jennifer said the Emperor and Princess Consort would like to continue having children into their thirties. "Luckily Cliff House is a large home."
FM expresses "confusion" over Dankuk statement
His Imperial Majesty's Foreign Minister, Sir Miguel Ontiveros, responded to the statement made by his Dankukian counterpart, Baeguk Officer of Foreign Affairs Eulji Yiroun. "It inspires some degree of confusion in me," said Ontiveros. "On the one hand, they called my comment about foreign interventionists into the Dankuk situation an 'insult' and a 'malicious slander' and yet they won the conflict only after accepting billions in foreign aid from the petrostate in Nadiya, as well as untold numbers of foreign mercenaries supplied by both the Luthorian and Nadiyan governments into their armed forces. This is just a fact. The war very well could have gone much differently without the foreign intervention, and we were merely acknowledging that simple fact."
If Kalistan was wrong for repeating facts that the Baeguk papers themselves had supplied, the Foreign Minister said, "We will happily correct the record for our part. But these are reports the Dankuk papers themselves published concerning militaristic intervention by foreign nations into their internal conflicts, as well as the unlimited funneling of more than 5 billion Nadiyan Rubles in assistance to Dankuk during the conflict." This point, Foreign Minister Ontiveros says, "is the one that drives much of my confusion, because they say they did this themselves without any foreign intervention, and then blasted us for intervening in their internal matters. I don't get it. Either mercenaries and materiel support from foreign nations was offered, as they said it was, or it was not and Dankuk truly is 'propped up' by [nothing except] the will of Cheon and the 50 million Baegukese people.' But it can't be both ways at the same time."
FM Ontiveros said he will wait for the government in Dankuk to clarify its statements to say whether foreigners had anything at all to do with the victory of the South against the communist North before further comment from the Empire. "They have called our Ambassador in for interrogation, but Kalistan has not named an ambassador for the nation. We merely maintain Consulate services there, and the Consul General does not have the authority to speak for the Empire in that nation. We would encourage Dankuk to send a representative to Kaliburg, so they may ask us the questions they would have asked an Ambassador were one to exist."
FM Ontiveros added: "Furthermore, we have never recognized the Charter or any authority vested in any world congress, and we explicitly reject any notion of any fictional 'rules-based' international order. We do, however hold state sovereignty and absolute non-intervention in foreign conflict to be guiding principles. Dankuk says they do as well, so perhaps we would have something to speak about after all-- as soon as foreign intervention in Dankuk in the form of foreign mercenaries who have no business intervening in Dovani, and direct materiel aid from Nadiya were to end, that is. We would, after all, prefer those we speak with be consistent in their word and deed."
The Foreign Minister said he would standby for a response from Dankuk regarding their confusing position on the status of foreign interventionists in northwestern Dovani, but is in no real hurry to speak to people who "...capriciously behead their political opponents without due process--even notorious communistical terrorists like the late Ms. Buyeo--with the nation's crown jewels. I don't have to say that the Anantonese Emperor finds this method to be stunningly outrageous, and quite frankly, barbaric."
Readiness drills shift to Northern Anantonese
Last year saw readiness drills in the Schismatic Sea being conducted by the 3rd Imperial Fleet. Numerous areas of improvement were noted, with the fleet as a whole earning an 87% on the standard Regular Force Cumulative Combat Readiness Battery (also known as "RF-CRaB") Now readiness drills have been announced for this summer for the 1st Imperial Fleet, stationed at Bozo River in Ananto. The drills will take place north of the Island, in the seas between Lourenne and Egelion.
His Imperial Majesty's Defense Minister, Col Calvin Velasco, said, "While the 3rd Regular Fleet works to address its deficiencies we are moving our attention to the 1st Imperial Fleet, our flagship fleet and the one responsible for guarding out North Eastern approaches. Our exercises will focus primarily on our subsurface assets, which we will rely upon not only to locate and neutralize enemy surface traffic in time of war, but will be called upon to prevent both troop relocation over the sea via large scale troop transport shipping, but also to attack and sink civilian shipping which will aid any war efforts into the region from outside. The submarine fleets in the Northern Anantonese maintain the reputation as among the most lethal in the world, and we need to make sure they maintain their edge for the defense of our Island and our Seleyan Mainland territories."
According to Col Velasco, the 1st Fleet's theater of operations extends from the Northern Limit of the Ananto Strait through the Sea of Carina west of Seko and in all water between Ananto and Lourenne on the south to the southern shores of Keris in the north. "It's a relatively compact theater of operations meant to complement and work in tandem with the 2nd Fleet which maintains the western half of the Northern Anantonese from the Strait of Karzon to Ananto between Seleya and Keris. But it is incredibly important because if anyone is going to stab Kalistan in the back, this is the approach they will take. The Northeastern Approach is of vital strategic importance, because if we lose this, Ananto is vulnerable to naval gunfire, indiscriminate bombing, and missile and drone attack. So: we need to make sure they never make it to Ananto in the first place."
The Readiness drills will be held between June and the end of the season in late October. Civilian traffic will be advised to avoid areas where drills are taking place, for everyone's safety, and to ensure that civilians are not harmed in Kalistan's readiness operations.
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