Kalistani Major History

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Dame Smith Recalled from Tian'An
Kalistan invites world to Kaliburg to Discuss TMU
Tian'An, Indrala
August 5th 5475


Dame Diane Smith boards a Commercial AeroKal flight to return home from the Tian'An Conference in Indrala

In a surprise move, Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress has recalled Foreign Minister Diane Smith from the Tian'An Conference being held in Indrala this week. Her Majesty's Foreign Minister was reportedly upset that the conference's speaking orders were being repeatedly flouted by nations who felt compelled to speak. "The planning committee debated for days about the status of this or that country, whether Luthori of all places should be considered a major state or whatever, and at the end of it all, nobody really cared anyway, because they all just spoke anyway. So there was really no point."

The Empress was reportedly aghast by what she read of the proceeds of the Conference. "Her Imperial Majesty looked at the transcripts I had sent her from the first few days of the conference," said Dame Smith, "and she was floored by the notion that great powers should be considered more important, and their interests more consequential than the other states in the world. I got to see a rare side of her when she was reading those remarks, and its not really something I should be repeating in the press, but let's just say, she very categorically, and perhaps, candidly, rejected the proposal on its face." Following comments from other delegations at the Conference which seemed to reflect the Empress' position as well, the Empress ordered Dame Smith to quit wasting her time at the conference and return to Kalistan.

"The Empress asked me to extend personal messages to the Emperor in Indrala and the King of Lourenne," said Dame Smith. "She really would like the opportunity to meet with both sovereigns and think of ways to increase commerce, travel and cultural exchange between Kalistan and Indrala, and to perhaps find a way to meet with the King of Lourenne despite her decades long protest of the removal of Queen Catherine the V. There are upcoming opportunities to begin to discuss visits between these two great nation and our own. I know the Empress looks forward to being a part of those opportunities."

Before departing, Smith also invited states to attend a proposed conference in Kalistan about the future of a new Terran Monetary Unit. This TMU is designed to be held to some single external value, and allow other nations to evaluate their currency against it, to allow them to compare their currencies to one another. "The TMU is needed," said Smith, "because right now, so many people denominate their stuff in LODs, and nothing against the LOD, but the LOD is supposed to float as well, so using that as a single global standard sort of locks it in place, opens our economy to changes made in another country, and doesn't allow Lodamun to fully evaluate their own currency. Other nations have proposed the use of the LFR, but they then denominate those LFR in terms of LODs and we are back to what we were at before. A TMU will establish a single externally valued synthetic currency which no individual government will control, and will then permit correct valuation of all national currencies across Terra. We are looking forward to hosting as many countries as want to come in."

Smith will return home for five days, and then her next scheduled trip will be to Gaduridos where she will observe the peace accord between Lourenne and Beiteynu following their recently concluded war.