Valruzia

[Aethan]

Sealed agreement in Tukarali 

Chancellor Szymon Nowik announces that a deal has been reached between protestors and the Maldonado-Soares regime in neighbouring nation

June 5633

Chancellor Szymon Nowik detailing the deal reached in Tukarali

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Three months is the time that negotiations between the Tukarese autocratic regime and the pro-democracy protestors have lasted since both parts asked for Valruzia's mediation in the conflict. When Valruzia celebrates 10 years since the start of its own revolutionary pro-democracy movement, Chancellor Szymon Nowik intervention was seen as a last resort to dialogue with both sides in the neigbouring nation conflict, which started in October 5632 when Tukarese citizens took the streets demanding an end to its autocratic leadership.

Flanked by the flags from both nations, Chancellor Szymon Nowik made a televised speech today from a podium:

"My fellow citizens of Valruzia, people of Tukarali, I'm proud to appear before you today as we bring exciting news and witness a new chapter in Seleyan history."

In this time ten years ago, our nation rose up against tyranny. We remember the stones we laid for each life lost, the blood spilled on the streets of our cities as we, as a single voice, demanded to retake our freedom. Today, that sacrifice finds new meaning—as Tukarali takes its first steps toward democracy."

For three months now, President Karolina Pietrzyk and I have worked quietly but relentlessly. Not as meddlers—but as neighbors and friends who know too well the cost of dictatorship and the price of hope.

The agreement that we have reached today guarantees the following:

Free and fair elections observed by international monitors, in the same way that our first elections were. 
Tukarali is set to become a semi-presidential unitary republic, as shall be stated in their new Constitution, to be drafted by elected representatives of the Tukarese people. This Constitution shall protect basic freedoms and rights of its citizens, as ours do. 
By means of the deal reached, former members of the dictatorial regime will get a pardon and immunity from prosecution for any crime committed during their tenure, with the exception of massacres and summary executions.

We know that some will criticize these compromises. We know this is not what we achieved, as has been recently seen by the sentence that condemns our former dictator Szczepan Morawski to life imprisonment, and the numerous veredicts that have been issued in Valruzia against former Morawski dictatorship ranking members, who are now serving their time forever in our prisons. But to them I say: The Tukarese people did not choose between perfect and imperfect — they chose between war and peace. Between more graves and a future. This is a deal that has been agreed by both sides, so it is not our duty to judge but to dialogue."

Following that speech, Chancellor Nowik showed a copy of the Valruzian Consitution, pointing that this afternoon, constitutional experts will depart from Valruzia to Tukarali to guide them through the process, and explain how we managed it.

"To the Tukarese people I say: Your courage humbles us. When your children ask how dictatorship fell, tell them you were the architects — we merely held the ladder. Remember that yet this is not victory. Victory will come when a Tukarese child lives freer than their parents. Until then — we watch, we help, but we do not dictate. The revolution must be theirs. And I want to add once thing, to those still clinging to tyranny: take notice. The age of dictators begging for recognition while murdering their people is over. Valruzia remembers. Terra is watching"

After Nowik's words, the government announced with immediate effect that the border humanitarian corridor would still remain open, and that Valruzian troops will be in place but will not enter Tukarese territory but rather control and check for any attempt at smuggling weapons to either side, an action that would face "crushing response".

With his actions, political experts agree that Nowik keeps cementing his reputation as a leader, and lies the foundation for a much closer relationship between both neighbours that, once the Tukarese democratic transition is over, will help the economies of both nations grow. However, the movement has also shaked Valruzia's internal politics, with the Communists calling Nowik's deal as "controversial", especially with regards to the amnesty, saying the Tukarese people have traded "justice for stability".Some NGOs and prodemocracy groups have also critizised the agreement, with many raising the question as to whether Valruzian protestors would have accepted such a deal and such amnesty for what they call “known criminals”. National Renewal, leader of the opposition, has called on the Nowik government to focus more on the internal situation of Valruzia rather than in its neighbour, and have demanded that any aid package shall be approved by the Sejm first.