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Kalistan to Rejoin ODEN
Long Standing Drug Cartel seeks new membership
Dahriel, Ananto
October 2, 4760



Premier of the Republic Bennots visits the former HQ of ODEN-K to announce effort to relaunch the Cartel in Kalistan

The Premier announced that Kalistan will return to the Organization of Drug Exporting Nations under the ODEN III treaty regime.  Kalistan founded the Cartel in 2382, and has, for much of its history, been the force behind the drug exporting cartel.  ODEN's Offices were shuttered during the last century, as the Liberals attempted, once more to drive Kalistan completely out of the Cartel, but now the Premier wants to rejoin it.

"ODEN is a pillar of Kalistan's economy," said Premier Bennots yesterday as he toured the former Offices of ODEN-Kalistan, which have been repurposed as the headquarters of the nation's primary drug abstinence program. "These offices do not belong in this building, which once oversaw a worldwide trade network and served as one of the freest marketplaces in all of Terra.  Traders would come to the warehouses just behind here and purchase for their own distribution chains, and of course, Kalistan made a lot of money on the sales.  It is time we as a nation stood up for the one thing that has been called for centuries 'The National Product'."

The Foreign Minister, Uxue Etxeberri, who is serving in an exofficio capacity, given the control of Kalistani foreign affairs by the Honorable Isabelle III Orleans-Vassar forwarded the Treaty for immediate vote on the floor of the National Assembly.  Some Deputies started grumbling about the radical steps taken by this Government in comparison to the relative anarchy of the previous decade, but ultimately, they are all expected to vote to ratify the treaty.  Etxeberri said that support for ODEN was equal to support for the Party, and only a fool would vote against the Treaty.

The ODEN agreement is expected to become law once more in Kalistan and ODEN-K will begin drug purchases within a year of the passage of this treaty.