The Foreign Minister said he was happy to see that the Ryccian junta is treating its citizens better than at the beginning, where people where killed for protesting. He said "what the Ryccian junta now has to do, is to leave the government to the people."
The recent positive development have been overshadowed by the tense situation on the Ryccian-Ikaranarean border.

The Minister of Defence announced the civil service, which will be introduced in a couple of months, is being renamed to national service, due to the common misunderstanding of it being considered a full time job for the government.