06-07-2023, 01:18 PM
Madeleine Lagrange of the Haesanite delegation reached to turn on her microphone with the kind of practiced restraint that comes with years of experience from some of the most difficult diplomatic missions Haesan has to offer. She was an aide during the Slokais Straits Accords during the late 80s, navigating the tense negotiations regarding the normalization of Slokasian-Haesanite relations, and later served as Haesan's charge d'affaires in Grapevale. This issue would be one of her most difficult she had seen, trying to steer the consensus away from the disastrous equilibrium that brought Roucourt to this position in the first place.
She started in her slight French accent, "The Haesanite delegation would like to echo the comments of the Sanctarian, Acadian, and Slokasian delegations before us in stating that humanitarian aid, and solely humanitarian aid, should be our primary focus. At the negotiating table, we have found the government forces nominally run by Svetlana Leclerc and the PNDS are highly entrenched and unwilling to compromise. The fact that the ceasefire has managed to hold for this long alone is a miracle. Haesan's diplomats have already surrendered the cause and have left the country ahead of the almost certain break of this ceasefire. Our aid workers have been evacuated too before the resumption of heavy shelling. It is unclear whether their safety could have been provided for amidst these rapidly deteriorating circumstances, and with those groups' approval, the Haesanite government has been forced to make the unfortunate decision to withdraw from Roucourt.
However, we were unfortunately not the only foreign power currently trying to force an outcome one way or the other at the current moment. Xiomeran influence poses a severe risk to the long term consensus as the Xiomeran military officers on the front may soon become the de-facto leaders of the government forces. In our ceasefire negotiations, one of the constant perils was that there is no clear leader for the Roucourtian forces as after Svetlana Leclerc's mental break no formal successor has been clearly named in the chain of command. As such, there are multiple different actors who could feasibly lay claim to be the "legitimately appointed" leader of Roucourt even amongst the government forces, and in practice, it is those closest to Xiomeran military resources who have the best shot at actualizing those claims. As such, we do not believe even supporting the legitimate government is a sound strategy as it could pave the way for future coups and civil unrest.
As for those who are currently involved, you should immediately withdraw your presence from Roucourt. There will be serious bloodshed, and providing more weapons and an increased capacity to inflict violence helps no one. Trying to steer a course through this chaos, with at least six different factions fighting for control, is a futile effort and will only hurt your own standing domestically and in the international community. To that effect, we urge this LIDUN Security Council to create formalized avenues to sanction and condemn all those nations who insist upon unilateral military involvement in Roucourt. Such recklessness can and should not be tolerated."
With that, Madeleine flipped off her microphone, clearly exhausted by this situation that has been so taxing for Haesanite diplomats over the last week. She then paused and braced herself for the Xiomeran rebuff that was surely soon to follow.
She started in her slight French accent, "The Haesanite delegation would like to echo the comments of the Sanctarian, Acadian, and Slokasian delegations before us in stating that humanitarian aid, and solely humanitarian aid, should be our primary focus. At the negotiating table, we have found the government forces nominally run by Svetlana Leclerc and the PNDS are highly entrenched and unwilling to compromise. The fact that the ceasefire has managed to hold for this long alone is a miracle. Haesan's diplomats have already surrendered the cause and have left the country ahead of the almost certain break of this ceasefire. Our aid workers have been evacuated too before the resumption of heavy shelling. It is unclear whether their safety could have been provided for amidst these rapidly deteriorating circumstances, and with those groups' approval, the Haesanite government has been forced to make the unfortunate decision to withdraw from Roucourt.
However, we were unfortunately not the only foreign power currently trying to force an outcome one way or the other at the current moment. Xiomeran influence poses a severe risk to the long term consensus as the Xiomeran military officers on the front may soon become the de-facto leaders of the government forces. In our ceasefire negotiations, one of the constant perils was that there is no clear leader for the Roucourtian forces as after Svetlana Leclerc's mental break no formal successor has been clearly named in the chain of command. As such, there are multiple different actors who could feasibly lay claim to be the "legitimately appointed" leader of Roucourt even amongst the government forces, and in practice, it is those closest to Xiomeran military resources who have the best shot at actualizing those claims. As such, we do not believe even supporting the legitimate government is a sound strategy as it could pave the way for future coups and civil unrest.
As for those who are currently involved, you should immediately withdraw your presence from Roucourt. There will be serious bloodshed, and providing more weapons and an increased capacity to inflict violence helps no one. Trying to steer a course through this chaos, with at least six different factions fighting for control, is a futile effort and will only hurt your own standing domestically and in the international community. To that effect, we urge this LIDUN Security Council to create formalized avenues to sanction and condemn all those nations who insist upon unilateral military involvement in Roucourt. Such recklessness can and should not be tolerated."
With that, Madeleine flipped off her microphone, clearly exhausted by this situation that has been so taxing for Haesanite diplomats over the last week. She then paused and braced herself for the Xiomeran rebuff that was surely soon to follow.