Kalistani Major History

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October 3913

Claims Committee to use agents within Kalistan for research exercise

Following the stern Kalistani reaction to to the planned visit of four members of the Claims Committee to Kalistan, the Committee has announced it will rely on "discreet agents working for us in Kalistan" in order to carry out its investigations in to whether Kalistan should rightfully be considered part of the Greater Malivian Empire.

Three of the four committee members who were meant to go to Kalistan cancelled their flights just in time to avoid being detained by the Kalistan authorities. However, the fourth, Kamala Ghoshal, who was the most keen to go, left earlier than the others, and found out the news of Kalistan's intentions too late. As a result, she was arrested and detained upon landing down at Kaliburg Airport.

Foreign Minister Vishnu Satavelekar has written to his Kalistani counterpart, asking for Ghoshal to be released. He also attempted to clarify Malivia's position in relation to Kalistan:

I need to emphasise again that the government of the Greater Malivian Empire has not made any territorial claim on Kalistan, and does not have any plans to do so.

The Raktavani National Party is a broad-based political party which represents a diversity of viewpoints. It has internal democratic mechanisms. The party's annual conference has voted to set up a committee to investigate, amongst other things, whether Kalistan should be considered a part of the Greater Malivian Empire. However, this investigation, this research is still underway. Nothing has happened. It has not been decided at either a party level or a government level to make such a territorial claim. I can only plead with Kalistan and our other international partners to please be patient and not jump to unjustified and over-hasty conclusions. I add also that centuries of history demonstrate that the existence of a Malivian territorial claim does not mean we go to war to seek to impose it. That is not how we do things.