NPC rejects "Five Tenets of Peace"

In a sudden and unexpected move, the Directorate submitted a peace proposal to the Confederation, entitled "The Five Tenets of Peace" or the "Moldavi Doctrine".

The Tenets -

The Five Tenets of Peace

These tenets, presented on behalf of the North Pacific Directorate, The North Pacific and it’s Peoples, hereafter referred to as the NPD, to the group formerly known as the underground movement of The North Pacific, hereafter referred to as the underground, do hereby put forth the recommendations and conditions for Peace within the NationStates.net region of The North Pacific.

The Tenets:

I. The region of The North Pacific will hold open Delegate elections, held in accordance with the Guidelines for Election to the Office and Position of Delegate of The North Pacific beginning on July 1st, 2005. In the interests of time, Qualification II, required service of 4 months in the Regional Assembly, will be muted for this first election. All subsequent elections will follow the prescribed Guidelines fully.

II. The region of The North Pacific will conduct all business and play on the NPD s4 forum. The forum currently in use by the underground will be closed and remain dormant for perpetuity.

III. The Ministry of the NPD will be expanded to include one additional member. This nation will be selected by the underground and will be confirmed by The Minister. This office will be Minister of the Interior and will be the public liasion in charge of reintegrating the underground members into The North Pacific society and community. Upon completion of that task this office will be expanded to include oversight on domestic issues.

IV. The banlist of The North Pacific will be cleared. The nations having suffered forced relocation will be welcome back into the region provided they accept these Tenets fully. The endorsement cap and Exemption Procedures will remain in effect until such time as a subsequent Delegate nation decides to lift them. Any nations in violation of these Tenets or the Endorsement Cap will be subject to immediate relocation.

V. The government of the underground will disband and it’s members will recognize the legality and legitimacy of the NPD. All members that take the Oath of Office for the position of Senator of the Regional Assembly will be welcome to join it’s ranks. All forms of hostility between the underground and the NPD will cease immediately. Any nation(s) found to be in violation of these Tenets will be subject to immediate relocation and labelling as an opponent of Peace.

These Five Tenets of Peace are presented to the peoples of the underground as a final attempt to achieve Peace within The North Pacific. It is our hope that these Tenets are easily acceptable to all and will be seen by all as a true movement towards long lasting Peace in the region we call home.

These five tenets bear a striking resemblance to the proposal's of the Conference and Summit, which had already been rejected.

The Confederation replied with this -

Our reply to the proposal set forth by The Minister/Ivan Moldavi/Pierconium/Pixiedance is: NO, we Decline. We will not accept any so called peace offering that leaves us in your total control.
You said to me before Ivan:
“that diplomacy is a tool of the defeated”

Your use of diplomacy now…at this juncture has me agreeing with you. Especially since 2 summits and a conference were never enough for you to offer just and reasonable compromises that were real compromises.

You also stated before…. “If I see an opportunity, I will take it,” Be assured that we not offer you another opportunity.

In specific response to the specific “tenets” of the proposal, the point by point response is as follows, given that none of the items are, according to the term of The Minister’s statement subject to any form of negotiation:

1. The concept of delegate elections has never been an issue; however, there has never been a consensus as to what would constitute free and fair election mechanisms and as to the scheduling of such elections. This “tenet” unilaterally imposes a system devised by the Minister and the NPD Ministry for its own benefit and there is nothing to indicate that it is established with the interests of any nation other than those favored by The Minister. The Minister assumes that the Codex and the procedures posted in connection with the Codex, as they currently stand, are acceptable, but those documents are not acceptable in their current form.

2. The use of the s4 forum as the exclusive purview of regional activity is unacceptable. We are fully aware of who owns and controls that forum, and that is not an acceptable venue to us as the exclusive venue of exclusive offsite forum activity.

3.The proposal for a Minister of the Interior and the scope of responsibility that The Minister presents raises the same concern that the first “tenet” presents. It is a unilateral imposition of a system devised by The Minister and the NPD Ministry for its own benefit and there is nothing to indicate that it is established with the interests of any nation other than those favored by The Minister. It also assumes that the Codex and the procedures posted in connection with the Codex, as they currently stand, are acceptable, but those documents are not acceptable in their current form.

4. We agree that the regional ban list should be cleared, but it should occur without preconditions or post conditions. The endorsement cap and exemption procedures suffer from the same defects as the Codex and the other procedures that have been put in place within the NPD, that is, both the exemption cap and the exemption procedures were unilaterally imposed by The Minister and the NPD Ministry for its own benefit and there is nothing to indicate that it is established with the interests of any nation other than those favored by The Minister. This “tenet” also assumes that that the Codex and the procedures posted in connection with the Codex, as they currently stand, are acceptable, but those documents are not acceptable in their current form.

5. There are serious problems with the Regional Assembly as it is conceived by the NPD. The ability of the NPD Ministry to interfere with the functioning of the Assembly as well as the structure and constraints under which it is organized are subject at all times to the unilateral whims of The Minister and the NPD Ministry for its own benefit make the current mechanism as it exists in the NPD unacceptable. There is nothing to indicate that the regional assembly was ever established with the interests of any nation other than those favored by The Minister. It is clear that a minority that has complete loyalty to the NPD regime can control the substantive work of the regional assembly, and to the extent anything is adopted, it is subject to a veto of the Minister and the NPD Ministry, even if a significant majority of nations in the regional assembly favor any given action. The structure of that system as it currently stands, are not acceptable.

The following Ministers of the NPC government voted unanimously to decline your so called peace offering.

Tresville, Grosseschnauzer, Free4All, Heft, GoalVA, Flemingovia, James2Spooky, Romanoffia

To all those that are reading this and still want to pursue diplomatic talks with the imposed NPD government I will leave you with another Pierconium/Pixiedance quote:
"Actually, some of you have, or at least have the insight to see that you will not prevail and that compromise is the far better alternative."

Not exactly what one would call peace....more like he wants us to submit!! So we stay the course!

You can see for yourself at - http://s2.invisionfree.com/The_North_Pacific/index.php?showtopic=4281&st=0&#entry1539929