Editing Haven Accords (section)

==Negotiations==
Peace negotiations, hosted by Sanctaria, began in the landlocked city of Haven. Hosted officially by Sanctaria, the [[Government of Sanctaria|government]] delegated the matter to former [[Council_of_IDU_States#Secretary-General|CIDUS Secretary-General]] [[Robert Smyth]], an experienced and well-respected diplomat who had also served as [[Deputy Prime Minister of Sanctaria]] as well as [[Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Sanctaria)|Sanctarian Foreign Secretary]]. The negotiations began on 29th August. Smyth was designed Group Special Envoy for the Lauchenoirian Conflict, the Group being the various combatants in the conflict.

Each nation involved in the conflict was represented at the talks, with Lauchenoiria being represented by both the Clarke government, and the Lauchenoirian Resistance. It was agreed on the initial day to take the issues of Aelurian independence and the solution to the conflict itself as separate topics, with the Aelurian independence question to be discussed first before moving to the cessation of what had now come to be known as the [[Second Lauchenoirian Civil War]].

Discussion of Aelurian independence took most of the day and evening of 29th August. When discussion the following day moved to solving the conflict, Smyth dedicated the entire day to hearing from the Lauchenorian Resistance. When negotiations resumed on 31 August, Smyth allowed only the Clarke government to speak and explain their part in the conflict. Though the plan was to take a break over the weekend of the 1st and 2nd September, various information was passed to Smyth and his negotiation team concerning allegations that Charissa Clarke, incumbent Prime Minister of Lauchenoiria and chief negotiator for the Lauchenoirian government, was in fact a sleeper agent. Reports from the negotiations do detail that Smyth spoke to Clarke about the allegations, but ultimately permitted the talks to continue.

When talks resumed on 03 September, Smyth asked all parties to suggest compromises they would be willing to make, and they red lines they would hate to cross. He was successful in winning key public compromises on several hitherto red line issues from all parties. 

Throughout the negotiations, Smyth also took the opportunity to speak to many of the delegation leaders on a one-to-one basis; these meetings were not minuted. Smyth's findings, and only draft of the Haven Accords, were published on 04 September 2018. He did not afford an opportunity for the different delegations to retire to consider the findings; a condition of the peace talks was that the delegations would accepted Smyth's findings without argument.