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Chancellor of the Empire Ames Issues Embargo Proclamation against Luthori
"Hands off Seleya," Chancellor Announces
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
June 19, 5571


Chancellor of the Empire Ames reads proclamation concerning new Luthori Encroachment into Seleya

Chancellor of the Empire, Sir Bertram Ames-Ananto read the proclamation of new Kalistani Policy today aimed at curtailing additional Luthorian advancement into Seleya and kneecapping the Artainian Nation's efforts to strengthen its so called "commonwealth."  "Her Imperial Majesty has had enough of Luthori's constant provocations against the Empire of Ananto and Kalistan, and we today reiterate our constant refrain when we say 'Hands off Seleya!'"

The transcript of Sir Bertram Ames-Ananto's speech, where he read Her Imperial Majesty's Proclamation regarding Luthori is printed below.  The text of this bill shall be floated through the National Assembly this week to enshrine it as Kalistani Policy.

"Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Pavlina I Ananto has decreed that the Empire of Ananto and Kalistan no longer recognizes the Government of Luthori, nor the Government of Mordusia, who is in that state's thrall, and is fully supine in their orientation toward Luthori, as legitimate.  Kalistan will support any efforts by the people of those two nations to establish legitimate government by whatever means they have at hand.  To Wit:

1.  There shall be no additional official reference to Luthori as an empire or a commonwealth.  Luthori may be described only as a "state in Artania."  Kalistan will immediately cut all trade and diplomatic relations with Luthori.  All diplomatic staff that remain in Luthori will be recalled immediately, and all Kalistani citizens living and doing business in Luthori are advised to return to the Empire before Luthori is able to commit and depredations reprisals against Kalsitani citizens.

2.  The Empire of Ananto and Kalistan shall establish a new sanctions regime aimed at weakening external support for the illegitimate Government in Luthori.  This policy is a "zero tolerance" policy aimed at encouraging Seleyan nations to distance themselves from Luthori.  As of July 1st of this year, The Empire of Ananto and Kalistan will:
a)  expel all diplomatic personnel from all Seleyan signatories of the Luthorian Commonwealth Treaty.  Currently this consists only of Mordusia.
b) review whether or not Likatonia is in fact a member of the Luthorian arrangement, as it does not appear that there is any active treaty of commonwealth, neither free trade, nor military cooperation between Luthori and Likatonia at this time, but if Likatonia insists that it is a member of Luthori's arrangement, the terms of these sanctions will be applied to them too.
c) expel all diplomatic personnel from any other Seleyan Nation that assists Luthori in the promotion and advancement of any of its instruments of empire, either military, economic, or diplomatic.

3.  Kalistan will remove its OTH radar base from Likatonia and end all semblance of security and intelligence cooperation with that Government.

4.  No Luthorian Flagged Vessel will be welcomed in a Kalistani Port, and if they attempt to make port in Kalistan or Ananto in any other than an emergency situation, they will be boarded and impounded, and their cargo will be seized by Kalistani Authorities as contraband.  Luthorian Commerce will not be harassed on the High Seas, but Luthorian Flagged civilian craft will find no safe harbor anywhere in Kalistan.

5.  Kalistan will nationalize all Luthorian investments and assets in Kalistan, wherever they should be found.

6.  Kalistan will not permit any ship to port in any Kalistani Port who carries Luthorian Goods, even if they were purchased in a third Nation.  All ships carrying Luthorian Goods will be turned back to sea.  This applies to all nations, without regard to any other arrangement or treaty that Kalistan is a party to including the AESA specifically.  Nor will Kalistan permit shipment of Luthorian goods through its national territory via road or rail, and any Luthorian Goods that arrive by air for any other reason than an identified emergency shall be seized and impounded.

7.  Kalistan will offer generous resettlement grants for all civilian refugees from Luthori, without regard to skill or occupation.  We will accept all political asylum seekers from Luthori, except those who have been adjudicated by the Luthori Courts as criminals, and all those who wish will be eligible for immediate naturalization in Kalistan, on condition that they fully and public renounce their Luthorian Citizenship.

8.  Kalistan shall offer generous investment and diplomatic support to any Seleyan Nation that openly and explicitly rejects diplomatic, economic and military relationships with Luthori.

It is so commanded, By the Voice of Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Pavlina I Ananto, enacted by the hand of His Excellency, Chancellor of the Empire, Sir Bertram Ames-Ananto in the National Assembly of Deputies, The Empire of Ananto and Kalistan, This Day, the Eighteenth of June, 5561, and shall be endorsed by the Same National Assembly."

The Chancellor did not remain for questions, but went to his office to begin whipping votes on the bill he was about to bring to the floor.