Davostag

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Government Lifts Halt on the Ports and Begins Foreign Policy Changes

14 September 5634 | Kivonia, Davostag (backdated)

 

One of the major ports on the island and province of Bindeborg, city of Nyberg.

 
One of the first acts of the newly inaugurated rikspresident Karl Manner was to reshuffle his cabinet, holding on to the position as premier himself, while providing some new faces among his ministers and sacking many of those seen as having a part in the bloodstained protests earlier this year. He also decided to have the Central Military Commission resume their responsibilities and increase their oversight of the Armed Forces, especially the Military Police, a popular move seen as a way to make amends for said protests. However, he has made it clear that he does not intend on giving out pardons to anyone involved in the events, something that has disappointed many passive supporters of the protests.

Manner also ordered his new Minister of Commerce Alicia Olander to reopen to the Davostager trade ports, to allow the flow of goods in and out of Davostag again, a lot of which is heading to Kundrati. Minister Olander stated that everything is in place for the coming Kalistani relief aid to be provided to the Kundrati mainland, noting that her ministry sees this as one of their top priorities to ensure that no problems arises. While on the question if the military deployments in the region are to remain, the rikspresident stated that they are for the unforeseeable future, claiming that complete security in the waters are not yet there as some nations still engage in the sanctions and the checking of goods.
 
Reports from the private Davostager companies dealing with the regional trade show a great deal of happiness in the change of direction; and as the Ministry of Commerce had stated in a memo to the companies through the Davostag Corporative Organization, that the government is now pursuing and encouraging the private sector parties involved to take their freedom in the free trade to make the necessary commerce decisions themselves. Thus one might conclude that the government is now actively looking forward to a more open trade system, hoping to take a more hands off approach. Consequently, a few reports suggest that some private companies, with a possibility of more to follow, have taken the government's words to the literal sense and redirected their trade, which has usually gone to the Kundrati mainland, to the island of Etxea instead. Said companies have yet to answer for a comment, nor has the Ministry of Commerce on this specific question. It could be the case that these companies have used the government's statement a few years ago of only recognizing the existence of one Kundrati as interpreting it in their own way, especially now as the ministry gave them the responsibility of making commerce decisions on their own.
 
News report written by Lisa Johansdotter.