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Kalistani News in Brief:  Empress welcomed New Garcia Administration
George Bennots is named new FM; Beiteynese Gov. statement on Kundrati is "welcomed"
Eveari, Grand Duchy of Ananto
May 5, 5595


Her Imperial Majesty speaks in Eveari

Empress Welcomes new Garcia Administration
The royal family was in Eveari this week, but Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Carolina I Ananto took time out to announce her support for the incoming Gaduri Administration.  "We have asked Sra. Garcia to form our Government there, in accord with the demands of the Gaduri People," said Her Imperial Majesty.  "The Social Democrats have won the clear mandate to govern, and Garcia is their clear choice.  We have great hope and complete confidence that our Government in Gaduridos will build effective, efficient and beneficial policy for our brothers and sisters in Gaduridos." 

The Empress also expressed a cautious endorsement for the program of the socialists in Gaduridos.  "While socialism has had its time in Kalistan, it represents a promising path to both economic and social development in Gaduridos.  Though Sra. Garcia is a socialist, we have faith that she will remain moderate in her approach and pursue changes that the society can keep up with, for the benefit of the people without the corresponding dislocations associated with rapid change."  To underscore her support for the new Prime Minister, Her Imperial Majesty added, "We has asked Lady Sarmiento, our Viceroy, to convey our best and most fraternal wishes, and to offer the Gaduri Government any and all assistance it needs to carry forward its anti-poverty and clean government platform planks.  We are especially encouraged by Sra. Garcia's commitment to expanding civil liberties in Gaduridos and we too are committed to the real and absolute equality before the law of all Gaduri Nationals."

George Bennots is named to replace Bjorksdattir at FM
Long serving analyst at Her Imperial Majesty's Foreign Ministry and Deputy from Lolla in Kaliburg, George Bennots, has been appointed to Head the Ministry.  Bennots, 49, took a job in the Foreign Ministry at age 26 and has worked primarily in the Seleyan Department.  He has represented the primarily working class Lolla neighborhood in Kaliburg for 10 of those 23 years, and is believed to be a moderate nationalist.  "Mr. Bennots has extensive policy experience in the Seleyan sphere, which Her Imperial Majesty believes will be helpful in improving relations with several Nations that Kalistan would like to reach out to," said Dame Diane Bolton, Chancellor of the Empire.  "We expect that Mr. Bennots will take a somewhat different tact that Sir Bjorksdattir has in terms of expression of Kalistani Foreign Policy, and it is our hope that his experience with Seleya and his understanding of the different political contexts on the continent will be an asset to Her Imperial Majesty's Government."  Bennots has already begun service at the Foreign Ministry, and has said that his first job is to begin reaching out to other nations in Terra to begin to improve cooperation.  "Kalistan feels like we have somehow ended up on the pariah list along with actual pariahs, because we accidentally stood up for what was right rather than what was easy.  So we need to have Mr. Bennots start listening to what other nations are saying, and Her Imperial Majesty thinks he is just a person to do this."

Beiteynese Government Statement on Kundrati "Welcomed" in Kaliburg
While the Foreign Ministry understands that there is frequently almost no daylight whatsoever between the policies of the Government in Yishelem and its different institutes, nonetheless, one of the first thing that Mr Bennots did was to issue a comment saying that the words of the Beiteynese Prime Minister were "welcomed" in Kaliburg.  "The disagreement noted in the Sholemburg Press, while not coming close to aligning with Ananto's position on human rights in Kundrati, nevertheless demonstrates that the question about keeping pressure on the Government in Kundrati, at least as far as Beiteynese Analysts and policy makers are concerned, is not fully resolved," said the new FM, George Bennots.  "The tiniest win for Kalistan-Beiteynese relations, but a win nonetheless.  Her Imperial Majesty was looking for literally any sliver of hope that Kalistan wouldn't have to break relations completely off with Yishelem, and this provided the sliver.  Our relations with them remain tenuous after Beiteynu unilaterally left two major treaty agreements with Kalistan five years ago without informing us that they were leaving or even giving us a chance to address their grievances.  And at this point, I am not even sure there is an officially credentialed Beiteynese Ambassador in Kaliburg any longer.  But it is Her Imperial Majesty's hope that this tiny ray of light in an otherwise rapidly darkening relationship might be the sign of a new dawn in relations rather than the last glimmer of twilight before a very long and very dark night."

Poetics aside, FM Bennots has sent an official letter to the Government of Beiteynu asking for an official clarification of relations between Kalistan and Beiteynu.  "We expect the official policy to remain set at 'cordial'," said FM Bennots.  "There's not a lot of evidence that it is actually cordial given their inexplicable withdraw from the several treaty regimes that we had painstakingly hammered out over several decades.  But despite the instrumentalist tone of the YBI's report, which clearly aims at providing political cover for improved economic relations with fascists, regardless of the truth of the matter, Her Imperial Majesty is hopeful that we will be able to repair relations with the Government in Beiteynu, even if we cannot with all institutions within the Nesset system."  Minister Bennots noted that the chances were slim, but it is encouraging that they are "greater than zero," which is significantly better odds than he gives Kalistan of ever improving relations with Kundrati as long as fascists govern the country and murder their enslaved workforce in mines.