29-05-2025, 08:25 PM
September 17th, Blackhall Palace, Fort William, Luthori
The Foreign Secretary, the Marquess of Windbury was looking eagerly to his television post, the news was rambling about the same things, the Prime Minister finally embracing his conservative elements and governing with them instead of against them or the recent incident involving the Archbishop of Oalapo's comments on abortion - but - nothing of these were interesting to the Foreign Secretary as of now.
Yes, he was a conservative, yet he is, first and foremost a diplomat, and the recent diplomatic developments in Dovani left him perplexed.
"Why was Xsampa so careless as of destroying one of their main element in their foreign policy?", he thought, it just wouldn't quite get to him, it either felt like the greatest strategy was in motion or just a careless and short-sighted action being done right before everyone's eyes - he was clearly favouring the second option.
Yet, in his job, patience was virtue, and he couldn't let the Luthorian Government - politically - to choose an outright catastrophic path - his nation's diplomatic standing in the Dovani continent has been severly weakened by his failed gambit in Yishelem - something that has put him, once, nearly out of government, but his key allies in the press saved him.
But this was the past - no he needed to focus on the present, just as he was deep within his thoughts, a knock resounded in his office, snapping him out of it and remembering the reality in which he was.
"Please, come in.", the Secretary announced, his eyes not leaving the TV once, entering the room was the Minister of State for Dovani, Mathilda Rodgers, and while he had pushed for her appointment to the Prime Minister, he couldn't feel but a bit of contempt for her - being the daughter of a disgraced Prime Minister but one who still uses his connections at his benefit.
"Secretary.", she begun, "I believe that we need to have a strategy about how to react to the Dovani Development Fund's quite unexpected end, shouldn't we?"
"Yes, we should, but the best option here is to remain silent - officially, the dissolution will cause widespread uproar in Dovanian stock exchanges, and will constitute Dovani's first real test as a 'bloc'. I believe that governmental reactions are expected in the next few days."
"Yes, both our embassies in Bianjie and Utaristan have seen increased activities in both countries' foreign offices in the last few days, everything seems to point out towards a statement."
"Alright, this goes as expected, according to our economic advisor here, Utaristan might be the most affected economy by the abrupt end of the DDF, with some of their mega infrastructure project being reliant on the funding from the DDF, I would instruct you to ask our ambassadors in both Bianjie and Utaristan to remain vigilent and open if the need for economic support from outside Artania would rise for either of these countries.
It is important - that it's either the Utaristani or Bianjie that makes the first move, not us, except in very dire situations."
"Alright, both our embassies will be directed towards conducting that way. I'll say it to our foreign policy advisors."
"Sure.", was all he could say before she left the room, leaving him again, in the solace of his thoughts, coming back to work.
The Foreign Secretary, the Marquess of Windbury was looking eagerly to his television post, the news was rambling about the same things, the Prime Minister finally embracing his conservative elements and governing with them instead of against them or the recent incident involving the Archbishop of Oalapo's comments on abortion - but - nothing of these were interesting to the Foreign Secretary as of now.
Yes, he was a conservative, yet he is, first and foremost a diplomat, and the recent diplomatic developments in Dovani left him perplexed.
"Why was Xsampa so careless as of destroying one of their main element in their foreign policy?", he thought, it just wouldn't quite get to him, it either felt like the greatest strategy was in motion or just a careless and short-sighted action being done right before everyone's eyes - he was clearly favouring the second option.
Yet, in his job, patience was virtue, and he couldn't let the Luthorian Government - politically - to choose an outright catastrophic path - his nation's diplomatic standing in the Dovani continent has been severly weakened by his failed gambit in Yishelem - something that has put him, once, nearly out of government, but his key allies in the press saved him.
But this was the past - no he needed to focus on the present, just as he was deep within his thoughts, a knock resounded in his office, snapping him out of it and remembering the reality in which he was.
"Please, come in.", the Secretary announced, his eyes not leaving the TV once, entering the room was the Minister of State for Dovani, Mathilda Rodgers, and while he had pushed for her appointment to the Prime Minister, he couldn't feel but a bit of contempt for her - being the daughter of a disgraced Prime Minister but one who still uses his connections at his benefit.
"Secretary.", she begun, "I believe that we need to have a strategy about how to react to the Dovani Development Fund's quite unexpected end, shouldn't we?"
"Yes, we should, but the best option here is to remain silent - officially, the dissolution will cause widespread uproar in Dovanian stock exchanges, and will constitute Dovani's first real test as a 'bloc'. I believe that governmental reactions are expected in the next few days."
"Yes, both our embassies in Bianjie and Utaristan have seen increased activities in both countries' foreign offices in the last few days, everything seems to point out towards a statement."
"Alright, this goes as expected, according to our economic advisor here, Utaristan might be the most affected economy by the abrupt end of the DDF, with some of their mega infrastructure project being reliant on the funding from the DDF, I would instruct you to ask our ambassadors in both Bianjie and Utaristan to remain vigilent and open if the need for economic support from outside Artania would rise for either of these countries.
It is important - that it's either the Utaristani or Bianjie that makes the first move, not us, except in very dire situations."
"Alright, both our embassies will be directed towards conducting that way. I'll say it to our foreign policy advisors."
"Sure.", was all he could say before she left the room, leaving him again, in the solace of his thoughts, coming back to work.