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Kalistani Republic
Kalistani President Responds to Trigunian and Hutorian Accounts of Piracy
Sends diplomatic team to Petrovgrad for further discussions
June 13, 3976
Port Elga, Sulari, Suldanor District


President of the Republic Delgado visited the future site of Port Elga, in Sulari, Suldanor District and discussed the loss of the Eastern Republic

Surveying the beginning stages of the construction of the new commercial port facilities, called "Port Elga" after the assassinated former President of the Republic, Current President Delgado took a moment to respond to international accounts of the hijacking and destruction of the KALNAPECO tanker Eastern Republic.

"The KRSB interim director, who has led the investigation into the destruction of our shipping capacity, has advised me that the Trigunian account, which assumes full responsibility for the destruction of our ship, appears to conform closely to the facts.  Naturally, we have some disagreements with their report, but those details fall within the range of minor disagreements of intention, rather than disagreements about the facts of the event.  However," the President continued. "Let me stress, emphatically, that we disagree with many of the assertions of the Hutorian Government stated in the Bekenial Dispatch.  The submarine the Hutorians were tracking was a Kalistani submarine, monitoring scientific phenomena under the ice sheet.  It is a coincidence that we were north of Hutori when they began tracking us.  And our submarine's presence there was unrelated to events occurring in Hutori at the time.  To deal with our research submarine, Hutori dispatched multiple Sentinel-class Nuclear Submarines, which chased our submarine south and into the Mad Dog Ocean.  Our Submarine, due to prolonged operation under extreme circumstances while trying to evade submarines whose intentions with our vessel were unknown, suffered catastrophic equipment failure which would lead ultimately to the destruction of the Kalistani submarine, contacted the KALNAPECO tanker for assistance.  Eastern Republic responded, and saved the lives of 16 Submariners just moments before the hull of the ship collapsed, and the submarine was obliterated. 

"Once the Kalistani submariners were aboard the tanker, Hutori, whose submarines had chased Kalistan's ship into a trap, launched a commando team from some other assets they had, not coincidentally standing by in the immediate vicinity, who proceeded to hijack the Tanker.  The pilot of the tanker, who had not yet met the hijackers, continued to sail the ship toward Aldegar, hoping that once docked, they would be able to deal with who he believed to be pirates, and contacted Kalistan to inform them of the hijacking of the tanker by unknown elements.  It was at that time that not one, but four shots were fired by the Trigunian cruiser, and the tanker was subsequently destroyed by these and additional surface fire and secondary explosions.  The Hutorians admit that they still hold a Kalistani National in their possession, and we are entirely unsure of that person's whereabouts, but we have certainly not been able to reacquire this Comrade.  Nor have KRSB made any contact with, or ascertained the wellbeing of this co-national, and we doubt that this will be resolved as long as Hutori continues to misrepresent their part in the destruction of our Tanker."

The President announced that The Government of Kalistan has accepted Trigunia's offer for compensation for their role in the affair as a sign of their admission of responsibility, and will be dispatching the political team to Petrovgrad to officially re-establish relations with the Trigunians, which were severed decades ago following the death of President of the Republic Elga Bjorksdottir.  He also stressed that repair of relations with Hutori are contingent upon their acceptance of responsibility for ultimate death of our two crews on the high seas.  The President stressed that Hutori cannot use "defense of a civilian vessel" as an excuse for firing on the Trigunian Navy, because they wouldn't have needed to protect the Kalistani vessel had they not commandeered the tanker in the first place.

The President also made some brief comments on the building of Port Elga, which is being built at Sulari.  The Port is designed to provide a major commercial hub for the Kalistani Mainland and the hinterland regions of Balthusia and Lodamun.  Currently, nearly all of Kalistani's imports and exports first travel to Eveari and then are shipped locally to various hubs in Kalistan for overland distribution, but when the new port facility at Port Elga is completed, shipping costs will be reduced dramatically.  Port Elga joins the KALNAPECO shipping assets already in Sulari, which have been being provisionally used for commercial shipping over the last 50 years, though not very efficiently.

Port Elga will be one of the world's most technologically advanced ports, with fully mechanized loading/unloading capacity, a massive container storage facility, fully modernized rail linkage, and overland linkage.  Port Elga will be able to easily handle the largest container ships deployed in Terra currently, and the port has been designed in such a way that as container ships grow in size, the port will be able to grow to accommodate larger ships through modular growth.  The President also noted that the construction of air commerce facilities connected to the port is in Sulari's long term strategic plan, but the construction of the port itself is the first priority.