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Bill: End to Selective Embassies Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Saiserist League
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2502
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign embassies.
Old value:: Foreign countries may establish an embassy after obtaining approval from the Foreign Office.
Current: Any other country may establish an embassy on national soil.
Proposed: Any other country may establish an embassy on national soil.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:18:30, December 15, 2007 CET | From |  Liberty Party | To | Debating the End to Selective Embassies Act |
| Message | "Technically, this would permit conquest. This bill, should it pass, would allow for one of our neighbours to declare the entire Free Federation as their embassy, and the foreign office would have no power to override that decision. This would also allow for foreign embassies to operate against the will of Zardugal's diplomats. Forcing a foreign nation to withdraw it's diplomats and close it's embassy sends a very clear and precise warning, taking away the foreign office's power to order that is not responsible foreign policy." ~Ruben Memorial, Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister |
| Date | 15:17:09, December 15, 2007 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the End to Selective Embassies Act |
| Message | "What the Liberty Party fails to realize, it might be that the their bodies are attempting to cut off what little oxygen gets to their brain in an attempt to save civilization I don't know, is that that foreign power would first have to purchase all the land in the entire nation of Zardugal to set it up as its embassy. Claiming that is nothing more than a primitive scare tactic. The option of forcing a country's embassy out of Zardugal is an act of barbarity. Nobody ever achieved anything by refusing to talk with them. Even the coldest, most barbaric nation in the world still has the right to establish a consulate here. That's what this is meant to do, take away the government's power to decide what countries are the 'right' countries, which shoud our government change we would presume would include several Socialist and Communist nations." -Grigori Huninyev, Second Secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| Date | 20:55:54, December 15, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Party | To | Debating the End to Selective Embassies Act |
| Message | But doesn't your government control the Foreign Office........ |
| Date | 03:09:56, December 16, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the End to Selective Embassies Act |
| Message | "They might not purchase all of Zardugal, but declaring an entire Province as foreign soil would be a lot cheaper then a full scale military invasion. Besides, though we recognize communication is important, but in todays modern world any government that wishes to contact a foreign entity will find a way. Giving the foreign office the power to shut down formal embassies allows them to send a very clear message to the owner of that embassy." ~Ruben Memorial |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 115 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 286 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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