PRESS RELEASE     STATEMENT ON THE NORTH PACIFIC’S ACCUSATION OF SANCTIONING FASCISM Fellow South Pacificans, The Cabinet of the South Pacific is dismayed and disappointed in the recent statement released by the Delegate of The North Pacific, McMasterdonia, regarding multilateral defensive military operations that impacted the North Pacific Army’s raids. In particular, the South Pacific government vigorously objects to TNP’s accusation that we have, in any way, “sanctioned activities that have ultimately aided the causes of fascism.” This bombastic statement can do nothing but strain relations between long-time allies. The South Pacific prides itself on having one of the strictest moderation policies covering hateful and extremist political and ideological views among off-site communities in NationStates. Furthermore, neither the South Pacific Special Forces nor any other defender military that is part of the Libcord cooperative defended any fascist region. Neither did our Delegate approve of or support the repeal of the Liberation of the Confederation of Corrupt Dictators in the Security Council. The North Pacific chose to invade innocent regions whose Delegates provided approvals for the proposed repeal of that Liberation resolution so that they could erase the approval and deny the repeal quorum. That is The North Pacific’s sovereign prerogative. However, in reality, it is likely that those regions had no idea of CCD’s history or that the Liberation was not accurate when first approving of it. Most players are not highly “plugged in” to the Gameplay community. Unless The North Pacific can definitively prove that each and every region they invaded was pro-fascist, the South Pacific must go into military operations assuming those raids to be against innocent regions. Of note, one of the regions raided was the Renegade Islands Alliance, a defender partner of TSP’s that has participated in anti-fascist operations. As a defender region, we will of course defend them. If The North Pacific wishes to engage in quorum raiding without opposition from The South Pacific community, there are some common-sense guidelines they can employ. First, any region subject to a raid should be shown to be pro-fascist, not merely labeled as such due to an approval of a Security Council resolution. Second, the North Pacific Army should notify the South Pacific Special Forces of planned quorum raids against pro-fascist regions supporting a pro-fascist Security Council resolution. These guidelines would help ensure that innocent regions are protected from attack simply for approving a resolution-- something many regions do without a second thought. Unfortunately, this breach of diplomacy was further compounded by the Delegate of The North Pacific doubling-down when the Prime Minister of the South Pacific, Penguin, reached out to express dismay at being labeled as sanctioning fascism; upon outreach by our Minister of Foreign Affairs Omega to his counterpart, the reaction was just as obdurate. Our demand to retract this heated accusation was met with staunch refusal. In response, we must regrettably postpone the planned festival celebrating the anniversary of the Aurora Alliance treaty, and we will consult with the Assembly on further steps to take. We hope that the Delegate of The North Pacific will reconsider as soon as possible. The North Pacific must respect our efforts to uphold the defender principles laid out by the Assembly of the Coalition, and not insult those principles by saying that they "sanction fascism." Faithfully yours, The Cabinet

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PRESS RELEASE     REPLY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC ON QUORUM RAIDS Fellow South Pacificans, The Cabinet of the South Pacific is disappointed that this matter, which could have been resolved with a simple clarification or retraction of The North Pacific’s statement, has not reached a mutually satisfying resolution. We do not agree with The North Pacific’s characterization of the diplomatic meetings between our Ministers of Foreign Affairs. While we were seeking specific redress for one bombastic label being applied to our region, The North Pacific appeared to have a different agenda and wanted to iron out big picture items like the legitimacy of their “antifa quorum raids.” When we wanted to stay on topic with our actual complaint, this seems to have been perceived as an unwillingness to hold a dialog. In any case, public diplomacy is not the proper venue for this. The Cabinet released its earlier statement out of necessity, as we were canceling an expected festival due to The North Pacific’s refusal to clarify or retract their disparaging remarks and needed to explain why to the community. We do not wish to continue in this pattern of tit-for-tat public statements. As always, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has an open office for all foreign regions. However, it is impossible at this time to conduct a productive discussion on the broader issues of quorum raiding when The North Pacific continues to propagate a false characterization of our region and government, particularly our values-based approach to protecting innocent communities. We also recently ratified the multilateral Partnership for Sovereignty alliance, which has an interest in addressing the rise of quorum raiding in the broader community. We have laid out what we believe are workable and reasonable guidelines for engaging in antifa-motivated quorum raids. At this time, we stand by those suggested guidelines and believe they are the best chance at compromise on this issue. I have remained encouraged by the uplifting messages received from allies and friends of the Coalition, and I would like to thank them for their support. We wish The North Pacific well in their future endeavors as we have historically found them to be a respectful and constructive friend of the people of The South Pacific. Faithfully yours, Omega Minister of Foreign Affairs     [/size][/font] [font=Avenir,Segoe UI][size=small]

(This post was last modified: 01-28-2021, 09:59 PM by Omega.)

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Sciscors going "snip" (message too long to quote)

TNP's reaction to this was extreme. There was no need to create such a big scandal and controversy for something as simple as defending against quorum raids.

Local Councilroar.

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(This post was last modified: 01-28-2021, 10:04 PM by Apatosaurus.)

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Sciscors going "snip" (message too long to quote)

TNP's reaction to this was extreme. There was no need to create such a big scandal and controversy for something as simple as defending against quorum raids.

It was specifically the defending against anti-fascist quorum raids that we didn't like, we are fine with defending against quorum raids in general.

Not an official TNP statement by the way.

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Republic of Lansoon (Pacifica)

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