Vote Northern Inertia for FA

[Northern Inertia]

Vote Northern Inertia for Minister of Foreign Affairs!


Hi!
An active member of the SLU, I currently serve as the ambassador of our region to the International Democratic Union. As I could now potentially devote more time to the region, I feel like it is time to run for a ministerial position.

Goncar's first term was a successful one, completing the UDLS merger and reviving the ambassadorial system. Since this is, in my opinion, the best way of maintaining and improving our relations with similar, friendly regions, the system should remain intact, with active ambassadors and meaningful interregional dialogue.

I see the future relations with these regions streching even further: the DA, in cooperation with the FA, could, for instance, promote interregional roleplay, as well as working with the cabinet and the Delegate to establish some form of interregional defence cooperation. This could conceivably take the form of the interregional defence treaty that was proposed some time ago, but has since fallen into obscurity. Essentially, I would work to ensure that the relations that the ministry upholds are not only an end in itself, but also a means to boost regional activity and to make the SLU a better place.

As one of the foremost leftist and liberal regions in the game, I believe the SLU should encourage the development of smaller regions with similar objectives; I have noticed that while the majority of nations on NS tend to showcase leftist sentiment, they usually do not choose to settle in large regions based on this ideology. Rather, there are numerous smaller regions with similar beliefs as ours.

To this end, I believe in an expansion of official SLU relations, especially as we were forced to close an embassy recently, and do not really have any interregional relations with the UDLS anymore, either. I would like to stress that this does not necessarily mean a relaxation of the requirements we have for embassies; instead, I would give the FA ministry a more proactive role in finding promising regions which do meet the requirements and in establishing relation with said regions.

Of course, all these are long-term objectives. However, I am ready to commit to moving the region in the direction outline above, and this is why I hope for your support.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Ava for the kind nomination. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them!

Tiny PS: I apologise for the lateness of this posting; I have been engaged in a brutal judo match with my computer over the last few days, and only today did I manage to score a yuko. I am confident I will achieve an ippon this coming weekend.

[Kingdom of Grolsch]

Hi Northern Inertia, good to see you running for Minister and thanks for posting your platform. I have several questions for you.

1. As the first CUS Chief Officer, I'd be interested in your approach in recruiting Combined Union Security Officers.

2. We have tried to get interregional defence cooperation going several times, but it failed every time, either because of differences of opinion or people were just not interested in working on it. How would you address these two fundamental issues going forward?

3. You said that the SLU "should encourage the development of smaller regions with similar objectives". What would your approach to this be in practice? Embassies, mentoring, regional cooperation treaties, secret cookie teleport networks?

[Northern Inertia]

Hi!

In our current situation, with no interregional defence structure in place, CUS, at least to me, seems to be a very good way of enhancing regional security. As such, I am glad to see that Goncar has kept this gong at least to some extent, and would look to do the same myself.

As for your second question, if another region does not have the will or the need for, or the ability to maintain the provisions of any treaty, then we neither can nor should attempt to convince them otherwise. Still, these problems could at least be limited by limiting the scope of any such effort to defence only, unlike for instance the UDLR or the IALL which I believe were wider efforts incorporating many other things than defence. In the end, we need to make sure that any such effort is sustainable both in scope and in nature. If there is no will for such a treaty in this region, or others, then it is not something that should be pursued; this will have to be gauged before any other steps are taken.

In terms of regions which meet our requirements (which are good and should not be changed) establishing an embassy should be the foremost goal. I f we do not know the region at all, I would prefer sending an emissary there first, getting to know the region and learning about the ways in which we could cooperate before potenially establishing an embassy. I like the idea of mentorship for smaller regions which share our ideals but do perhaps not meet the size requirements, but I am not sure how this would work in practise, nor do I think these smaller regions would be entirely positive to such arrangements.

I'm also not sure how cookie teleportation networks work, but they sound very promising, so if you have more information or ideas, feel free to share them. :)