In a press conference today President Blanc describes Ryccia as “a nation that must be contained, cut off and ignored” saying the nation is a “persistent disruption to the South Pacific, which is consistent across all recent Ryccian governments”, and that “even if the regime were to change, the new one is unlikely to be much different to the current junta, or previous recent governments, and therefore the isolation must continue in perpetuity”, describing the Ryccian population as “too poor, uneducated and depressed to push for meaningful change.”