NationStates Jolt Archive


ICEL Executive Council Outlines New Policy

Ma-tek
06-10-2004, 00:11
NENYA, TUESDAY - The Commonality Executive Council finally concluded their debates on Revision 2c "Regarding Foreign Policy Decisions" (2 d.e.) Thursday, and put the final Revision of Outline 2 "Regarding Foreign Policy Decisions" (2 d.e.) to the vote. The final decision, of course, was a unanimous yes-vote, again displaying the primary strength and weakness inherant in the Executive Council system: unity.

The basic outline of the Revision is based upon the earlier Outline resolution to decide foreign policy for this year, and, as expected, focuses on the situations that merit a response from the Commonality.

The key issues that now warrant a response are:

* misuse/abuse of weapons of mass destruction
* creation of new weapons of mass destruction
* state-sponsored terrorist activities
* state-sponsored criminal activities
* state-sponsored socio-illegal activities inside the Commonality
* state-sponsored illegal activities inside the borders of an ally
* hostility directed at the Commonality or an ally

There are also new definitions of a legal war, namely:

* 'Fear War' - a war fought for the population of a state against a deviantly oppressive government. This method of conflict can only be legal with regard to Commonality-aligned states.
* 'Defensive War' - other side fires first.
* 'Internationally Defensive War' - other side fires first on any state in international waters. This is legally defined as a international piracy prevention co-operation effort, not a war.
* 'Intervention War' - the insertion of Peacekeeper troops into a volatile conflict with the explicit authorization of the state or population (by popular petition) with a legal, valid claim to the territory the combat theatre is based in.
* 'Multilateral War' - the support of allied forces in a legal and just war effort.
* 'Offensive War' - a conflict dependant on the limitation of enemy casualties to non-lethal levels wherever possible. Causes for an 'Offensive War' now legal under ICEL Law vary, but are dependant on the unanimous decision of the entirety of the Crown's Commonality Government.

~ excerpt from Nenya Today broadsheet