Badara

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FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES MIGRANT’S PASS
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(IF it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Foreign Ministry, March 17, 5641:  After a senior staff meeting on embassy budgeting, the Monsoon asked Foreign Minister Hakim al-Sabah if Jumhuriat al-Badara was going to get involved in the Migrant’s Pass controversy, and he responded:
 

I doubt it.  There are quite a number of reasons, but three main ones.  Perhaps most important we are only now coming out of isolation and trying as a central government to regain control of two regions on the Island of Nashwa.  Work in progress.
 
Second, our trading does not have to go through Migrant’s Pass. Well, that is not quite true; we do have a seven hundred year old arrangement with a nation for sale of its rather upscale sports utility vehicles but they ship to us and may or may not go through Migrant’s Pass to get to us.  In any event, insisting on rights we do not use has not become important to us, a small weak nation.
 
And third, we have been on both sides of the issue. Supporting those insisting they were arbiters of everything and now against claiming to own international waters.  So our current opinion is not one anyone is seeking to know.
 
We do nonetheless support the call of Istalia for an international conference for resolving issues connected to Migrant’s Pass peacefully.

Foreign Minister Hakim al-Sabah