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**Jay Coop** · 08-01-2021, 01:54 PM

PRESS RELEASE

STATEMENT ON NATIONSTATES CLOSING EMBASSIES

1 August 2021

My fellow South Pacificans and interested parties:

On Sunday, 1 August, NationStates ordered the closure of embassies between their region and the South Pacific based on the latter's defender tag, calling it "contrary to [their] Ideal". The South Pacific finds their reasoning illogical.

The South Pacific adopted the defender tag on 17 July 2019 upon passing the Resolution on Adopting Defending Military Principles, a full two years before NationStates' decision to close embassies. Where was NationStates in the two years the South Pacific possessed the defender tag, and why did NationStates wait this long to close embassies based on this rationale?

The decision is also hypocritical because NationStates claims in their World Factbook Entry that their region is "Friends With All; Aligned With None". However, their closing of embassies shows that not to be true. Furthermore, at least one region NationStates shares embassies with possesses an invader tag, yet there was no decision to close that embassy. Why is that?

As far as the South Pacific is concerned, NationStates' decision to close embassies is an illogical and hypocritical move on their part, and we will proceed in our foreign affairs aligned with our defender principles without compromising these values based on the whims of a supposedly neutral region.

Faithfully yours,

Jay Coop
Minister of Foreign Affairs

4× Cabinet minister /// 1× OWL director /// CRS member /// SPSF

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