Nadiya

[Svetlana]

Formation of 4 oil and gas companies within the NEC, Maria Pavlina says the NEC will only deal with those recognizing them as independent from the Tsardom: let the dance begin

Zarvosopol, Kozaki. Today, the NEC leaders met again this time in Zarvosopol, in the Kozaki People's Free Republic, to iron out a unified and agreed upon oil and gas exploitation strategy for the member states. At first, the LSSR proposed that all oil and gas shall be nationalized given how the privatization of Neftkomp brought chaos, disarray, and complete incompetence to the old trigunian economy which only helped push the archipelago into the state that it is today, the BDFR instead proposed that national companies shall be created but each member states can allow any margin of privatization happen within those companies but that it shall never surpass 50% so it won't become a private entity. The Brakavan proposition passed well with the Kozakis and the Utopians who both immediately approved it, the Lesnovians followed suite by agreeing to its principles but stating that privatization of the future oil company in Lesnov shall not surpass 20%. Now, with the oil question handled, came the issue of which nation shall the NEC trade and cooperate with? The Kozaki delegation headed by its president Maria Pavlina suggested a rather harsh condition for the NEC to cooperate with any nation and it was for them to recognize its current and future member states as fully independent sovereign nations separate for the Tsardom this way at least the Bashnya will be crippled even more as it finds itself isolated even more diplomatically with nations recognizing the rebels as their own independent entities like any other normal Terran nation. The kozaki proposition passed immediately and unanimously within the NEC as all leaders agreed that a recognition of all rebel states as independent is the only way for any nation to trade with any of the NEC member states. Shortly after the end of the conference in Spask, another conference was announced, but this time at Zoetergraaf to discuss the monetary question given how the member states still use the old Trigunian Rouble.

List of the newly created companies:
1) Kozaki Oil and Gas Corporation (Kogas)
Owned by the Kozaki People's Free Republic eith an allowed privatization rate of 50%
2) Matriarchal Petrolium Company (Pemat)
Owned by the Vrosnok Council Republic with an allowed privatization rate of 50%
3) Soviet Oil and Gas Concordium (Svetgas)
Owned by the Lesnovian Soviet Socialist Republic with an allowed privatization rate of 20%
4) Brakav State Oil Corporation (Brakoil)
Owned by the Brakav Free Democratic Republic with an allowed privatization rate of 50%