we opened relations with several regions or allies.

Could you list those regions with whom we have established relations? I don't remember us passing any new treaties, who are these new allies?

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Relations does not equal treaties necessarily.  Treaties should be based on productive and positive relations or communication and discussion of some goals. We have a dedicated FA server where we have a channel with every major GCR and allies. We also were able to do multi-regional conversations and coordination for CULT. Finally, there was one situation where a potential conflict was defused for another region that I won't discuss due to privacy.  It's a brave new world when FA moved beyond the limited scope of just treaties.


 

3. The Inter-Regional Games did not happen.

Isn't that the responsibility of MoRA, though?

Why only the MoRA?  It's inter-regional therefore involves multiple regions.  The FA should be the point of contact for allies and non-allied regions so the FA Minister should be coordinating or helping to coordinate at the very least.  No ministry should be an island unto itself. FA works with a lot of the same people and this way there is coordination and support between the ministries instead of an isolationist approach.
 

5. The biggest thing that came out of FA was C.U.L.T.

As above, wouldn't that fall under the purview of MoRA?
We have discussed time and time again that MoRA has too many responsibilities comparatively. My campaign theme for both terms has been integration. Why would FA not be involved in a festival with our allies? Why wouldn't FA establish communications with allies and potential allies and make it easier for RA by opening lines of communication?

7. The FA Ministry had the largest staff of all time and they all contributed in some way.

Is there a roster we could check, with the current members of the Ministry?

Yes, the roster is linked to in the initial campaign post and other than Cormac everyone is a current member. Also it has been in the first post since day one

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I have questions presented by Sygian in the #foreign-affairs chat on Discord. While they may not reflect my views, I believe that everyone with a nation in The South Pacific should be allowed to ask questions of Executive Candidates.

1. How have you, in your own opinion, put the "fun" back in Foreign Affairs? Why does your platform call for doing it again? Did you not fulfill that promise during your previous term?

2. Aside from the CULT festival (which is arguably a job for the MoRA), what have you really accomplished during your term as MoFA? Hint: Don't answer "Not much."

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2. We established an embassy with Forest and we opened relations with several regions or allies.

, how does one simply "open relations with several... allies"? Follow up question, can you name some of these regions and/or allies that you mention?

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The FA Ministry had the largest staff of all time and they all contributed in some way.

Contributed in doing what exactly?

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We discussed, as a team or individually, many possible alliances and concerns.

Did anything come of these discussions that you say occurred?

6. Why are there two "7."s on your platform? It is extremely confusing for some interested readers, is there a reason behind that?

7. Lastly, there have been public mentions of you pursuing an alliance with the NPO next term. It is also public that you turned down all peace offers that were extended toward you from Osiris during your term because of the "pharaoh situation," where Neo Kervoskia (a known Empire operative) is serving as the Pharaoh. While the reasoning behind you turning down any peace offerings from Osiris is understandable, what is the reasoning behind pursuing an alliance with the NPO, an organization that is notorious for their planning and executions of several GCR coups including that of Lazarus, a treaty ally of The South Pacific, and the South Pacific herself in 2013?(edited)

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So again, my responses are in bold\color because idk the programming to split the quotes (My = Escade)
 

I have questions presented by Sygian in the #foreign-affairs chat on Discord. While they may not reflect my views, I believe that everyone with a nation in The South Pacific should be allowed to ask questions of Executive Candidates.

1. How have you, in your own opinion, put the "fun" back in Foreign Affairs? Why does your platform call for doing it again? Did you not fulfill that promise during your previous term?

I mean its  "Part 2" so its bigger and better. And who knows maybe the whole trilogy! Everyone knows 3 is a perfect number to get things done right Although, if you look at my end of term review I do respond to what I think needs improvement. However, I had an atypical foreign affairs campaign - it basically said FA should support MoRA and MoMA. What I promised in that sense was fulfilled.  Something in the region spoke to having an FA that didn't dominate the scene but instead worked towards positives and took the regional interest to mind. Every FA decision was made through a process of something (proposal, treaty, discussion, suggestion) coming to me that I passed onto the cabinet and discussed there. Then also to the CRS.  I also sometimes talked to former FAers about issues and consulted them.  

2. Aside from the CULT festival (which is arguably a job for the MoRA), what have you really accomplished during your term as MoFA? Hint: Don't answer "Not much."

Salty! I'm interested in what you think a MoFA should accomplish in one term? What has, for example, the Osiris FA equivalent accomplished in their term (if they have terms). What are you expecting in particular that you haven't seen? I also don't really like attitude towards MoRA to be honest. I think MoRA is the key to TSP success. That everything in the region should support it because that's where our regional activity, our recruitment, our people flourish should be common sense. I mean there are regions that are dead because of a lack of attention to RA. 

I've outlined accomplishments in this thread already. Those were what I offered and they are atypical but I'm proud of them and stand by them.  I don't think the job of FA is to throw out a bunch of treaties that have no value. Also see above but to reiterate FA should not dominate TSP. It should support MoRA and MoMA which it has done in various ways and with the first atypical term finished, I think it can do so in more ways.

A lot of this term has been strengthening relations with current allies such as TRR\Lazarus through events and also through Discord intermingling. I also argue that CULT was an FA\RA success and that FA was a natural home to it because our job is keep in touch with our friends.

Things that I don't call accomplishments are the repeal of the Balder Treaty. There is an example of how relations between the region deteriorated to such an extent because relations need to be nourished with positive. I see the first job of FA to maintain or keep building relations with allies.  What is the point of adding a ton of treaties that are meaningless or dissolve because of a lack of relations.

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2. We established an embassy with Forest and we opened relations with several regions or allies.

, how does one simply "open relations with several... allies"? Follow up question, can you name some of these regions and/or allies that you mention?

Open relations with allies means to plan things with them and to do things with them such as CULT. Also to engage in discussions with them.  Recently we had an ally approach us with a particular idea that is in progress. We discussed it in the cabinet and Assembly and with other allies who also received the same idea (not going deeper because the situation is still being discussed). There was negotiation, compromise. Currently another ally has proposed to extend the original terms and we've discussed it.

With some allies like Spiritus or others such as TEP, we initiated the planning of things but because of dates\peoples RL need to extend the time. However, some of the ideas are there and so maybe next term!


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The FA Ministry had the largest staff of all time and they all contributed in some way.

Contributed in doing what exactly?

Specific members? Or as a whole? Members contributed by researching relations, providing history or looking up information about past alliances since without the server some gaps exist.  They also helped by keeping us up to date on what is going on in the wider world. Finally, in the past FA in TSP has had trouble keeping people and sometimes has even gone inactive but this was a term where a lot of people got to voice themselves. 


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We discussed, as a team or individually, many possible alliances and concerns.

Did anything come of these discussions that you say occurred?

 Yes, one inter-regional event (and see above about things in progress) and to speak more on that - one thing I think we need more of is inter-regional events which connect our allies together as well as us.  We should also try to add more allies or potential allies into these events so that they might treaty with one another.  I would love to do an event with Forest, Spiritus and another ally that had similar themes because strengthening our allies also strengthens us. 
We also had one treaty repeal. And we decided to rejoin CAIN.  

I prefer quality over quantity.  I prefer building relationships with our allies instead of trying to dash off a hundred treaties that as my campaign states will be just paper but have no heart or backbone. I love the heart, and also ribs and the spine as well. 

6. Why are there two "7."s on your platform? It is extremely confusing for some interested readers, is there a reason behind that?

I think you mean my end of term review rather than my platform which only has 5 points. I like the number 7 though, its lucky. (*wish on a star*) (also I mean my foot size is 6.5 but I wish it were 7 bc things don't always come in my fit size, that's life though).

7. Lastly, there have been public mentions of you pursuing an alliance with the NPO next term. It is also public that you turned down all peace offers that were extended toward you from Osiris during your term because of the "pharaoh situation," where Neo Kervoskia (a known Empire operative) is serving as the Pharaoh. While the reasoning behind you turning down any peace offerings from Osiris is understandable, what is the reasoning behind pursuing an alliance with the NPO, an organization that is notorious for their planning and executions of several GCR coups including that of Lazarus, a treaty ally of The South Pacific, and the South Pacific herself in 2013?(edited)

Thank you for mentioning about TSP and Osiris have stalled relations for a reason. As for NPO, I'm honestly not sure where the rumor is coming from other than the campaigns themselves and people asking that question. I also answered this question above in a slightly different format.

As for any FA decision, I as Minister will continue to present any proposals, treaties, suggestions from other regions to the cabinet and also to the CRS. However, I don't make final decisions. The Assembly is the great institution of TSP that actually determines who we do ally with or not which is why we are not in one alliance anymore and also are part of an organization. That is the beautiful system of TSP <3

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It is with pleasure that I, as Vice-Chair of the APC and on behalf of the APC, endorse Escade for MoFA!

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It is with pleasure that I, as Vice-Chair of the APC and on behalf of the APC, endorse Escade for MoFA!

I really appreciate the endorsement and hope that even more TSPers will join me and help me with the FA Team this term.  <3

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I don't think you've accomplished much of anything in foreign affairs this term, and I don't like the way you're responding to citizens and legislators of TSP who disagree with you or who are questioning the merits of your tenure as Minister.

I'll be voting to reopen nominations, and I encourage others to do the same. We need a contested election for this office.

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we opened relations with several regions or allies.

Could you list those regions with whom we have established relations? I don't remember us passing any new treaties, who are these new allies?

Bold\color = My (Escade) responses because of the quoting issue:
Relations does not equal treaties necessarily.  Treaties should be based on productive and positive relations or communication and discussion of some goals. We have a dedicated FA server where we have a channel with every major GCR and allies. We also were able to do multi-regional conversations and coordination for CULT. Finally, there was one situation where a potential conflict was defused for another region that I won't discuss due to privacy.  It's a brave new world when FA moved beyond the limited scope of just treaties.

I'm a little concerned that you've labelled several new regions as allies when no new treaty was negotiated and sent to the Assembly to be ratified to cement an alliance. If you are re-elected will you pursue negotiations to cement an alliance with those unnamed "allies"?

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Please continue to ask me questions whether here or via DM\TG and I thank everyone who has contacted me about this campaign  in a respectful way <3


I think its a matter of clarification. New allies are regions such as Lazarus or TRR what we have not been historically allied with in prior to 2014! They are new in the sense that we haven't spent a lot of time (in terms of years and establishing relations between the people) in the alliance.  Opened relations means to actually have relations (such as an event, inviting them to the FA Discord where they can ask questions, and working on a potential projects such as thematic RPs, etc) vs Closed Relations (which are when allies don't talk much or at all).  I think we need to further open relations with our allies, even older ones such as Euro, in such a way so that no TSPer will wonder who are our allies are or why we're with them in the first place. (For Euro we proposed a Star Wars event but due to some RL\date issues, were unable to hold the event and hope to do so in the future). 

Finally, as to your second point - I totally agree (and stated the exact process you're describing in a previous post that I will requote).  For example, the Assembly chose to repeal the treaty with Balder. And the Assembly chose to rejoin CAIN. If any formal treaties are presented to us or conversation in the cabinet or Assembly leads to a region being presented as a possible treatied ally then the Assembly has to decide. That's the law and also how it should be! I have in the past brought up a few things in the legislators-lounge to gauge assembly thoughts and will continue to do so when anything solid materializes.

From post #13

"As for any FA decision, I as Minister will continue to present any proposals, treaties, suggestions from other regions to the cabinet and also to the CRS. However, I don't make final decisions. The Assembly is the great institution of TSP that actually determines who we do ally with or not which is why we are not in one alliance anymore and also are part of an organization. That is the beautiful system of TSP <3"

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You mention you would send any new treaty to the CRS, a body that probably shouldn't be involved in a policital decision like treaties. Why do you believe they get a say in any new treaty?

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You mention you would send any new treaty to the CRS, a body that probably shouldn't be involved in a policital decision like treaties. Why do you believe they get a say in any new treaty?

The Council on Regional Security is a body that is responsible for our security, intelligence, and is also compromised of long-term members who have an overall view of relations that TSP has had. So while they don't make any decisions, they can and should be asked for any insight they have (and may have information based on any investigations they are conducting).

Based on recent surveys, most are happy with the CRS and respect the institution so I think asking them "Hey this is brought to my attention or is on the table, do you have anything to add or any info?"  That way if anything is presented to the Assembly, its with as much context and information as possible.

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