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High Chancellor Meets With Prime Minister in Crown Street.

13th, January 5567

Fort William - Luthori’s Prime Minister, Carolina Pryce met today with her Lourennais counterpart, High Chancellor Arnualt. During an highly-anticipated visit from the Lourennais Head of Government to Luthori, the first in almost a hundred years, the Prime Minister met with her Lourennais counterpart at 10 Crown Street. The High Chancellor was received warmly by the 52-year old Prime Minister at her official residence in the political centre of Fort William. While official discussions were centred around the establishment of cordial (at least) relations between Fort William and Eroncourt, some key agreements were signed between the Luthorian Premier and her Canrillaise counterpart, especially in the domains of science and military collaboration.

It is widely known that, in the aftermath of the Hubris War, bilateral relations between Fort William and Eroncourt had, for the most part, already broken down. The final nail in the coffin was the outbreak of that said War and the failure of negotiations between Luthorian and Canrillaise officials before the War. In the aftermath of the War, Crown Street broke down any form of contact between Eroncourt and Fort William, while resuming trade relations, albeit in a more reduced trend than before the War. This state of affairs continued and even strengthened with the “Second Loss” of Yishelem, this time to the Lourennais Emperor and the House of Orléans-Vasser. Recently, some form of collaboration was seen between the Imperial Foreign Intelligence Agency and the Royal Intelligence and Security Agency (RISA). Both agencies worked closely on the matter of Claudio Bravo, former Luthorian-Egelian Chancellor of the Exchequer, who fled Luthori after being indicted by the Justice Department. Since then, Mr. Bravo is presumed dead, having been on the run for 20+ years, a huge embarrassment to the security apparatus in this country.

With this context, High Chancellor Arnault’s visit to Luthori was widely awaited by the Imperial Government, who seemed eager to restart having some sort of cordial relations between the Palace of Oisy and the Bismarck Palace, as this newly-found state of affairs would help to the continuation and safeguard of currently helding trade links between Lourenne and Luthori, as after all, Lourenne is Luthori’s biggest client in Dovani.

The Prime Minister and High Chancellor held some form of talks within Crown Street, the atmosphere was dubbed as being “quite pleasant” by witnesses of the talks. Several agreements were agreed upon by the High Chancellor and Prime Minister, one of which was signed by the Secretary of State for Science and Technological Advancement and the High Chancellor. It plans for the sending of some top-Luthorian scientists in Lourenne to work with the Royal Space Agency in the development of Luthori’s space program. Another agreement which was shaked upon by the countries’ leaders was collaboration in the military field, with Luthorian companies being asked upon by Crown Street to help the Lourennais with the construction of their nuclear-powered submarine. Other than that, no further agreements were signed and high hopes were placed in Parliament for this visit to be the beginning of the rebuilding of Luthorian-Canrillaise bilateral relations.

The Foreign Secretary only responded to these hopes: “It is the continuation of the policy that has been enacted years ago”, referring to the lengthy process of reconciliation through proxies, policy used by the Luthorians in regards to Canrille. The Prime Minister’s Office stated that Pryce was “very likely” to oversee a visit to Lourenne to “lock” the “frozen” diplomatic and commercial situation between Eroncourt and Fort William before the next elections, opening the way for further discussions to cool down the existing heat in both nations.

The timing of the Prime Minister’s visit is concerning some analysts, as the next elections are likely to see a Tory majority be swept into Crown Street, mostly due to the Prime Minister’s unpopularity and the people’s tiredness with soon-to-be 15 years of Labour government. It seems very likely that with polls continuing to be quite negative for the National Labour Party that the Prime Minister would be, apart from trying to achieve the objectives written beforehand, trying to prepare the field for the (likely) incoming Tory administration.

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