EDF Press Office

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EDF COUNCIL RESPONDS TO MERIBIAN NUCLEAR AMBITIONS

Statement issued by the General Secretary of the EDF, Sir Edwin Wolfe.

The matter of the Meribian test detonation of a nuclear device has been a subject for discussion by the EDF Council. Due to the recorded history of the Meribian government and the reputation that history has garnered, it has been deemed by the EDF Council that Meribian development of nuclear devices and the methods to deliver those devices to targets beyond the Meribian borders pose a real threat to not only to the security of region, but globally as well. Therefore, due to the lack of an international body capable of curtailing the nuclear ambitions of Meribia and in light of its even more recent refusal to contribute to regional stability by decommissioning at least some parts of its nuclear arsenal, the EDF Council has concluded it will be vital for regional stability to engage Meribia with all means possible and reasonable in response to this clear and present danger.

SUCCESSFUL FASA SATELLITE LAUNCH

The Federated Aeronautics and Space Agency, or FASA, has reported the successful January 7th launch from the Newton Space Center in eastern Guiana of the Hermes XVI communications satellite. As the name implies, the Hermes XVI, in this case belonging to the Franconian satellite tv and radio service provider FraSat AG, is the sixteenth in the series of civilian communications satellites launched since the mid nineteen-nineties.

 

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PARTNERSHIP FOR STABILITY

The EDF Council is happy to announce the establishment of the Partnership for Stability with of the Kingdom of Belmont as its first member. As the program is aimed at creating a trust netween the Alliance and other states in Europe, the EDF hopes to expand the program to other regions and to establish friendly and longlasting with nations throughout the world.


AQUITANIA TO BE ADMITTED AS THIRD TIER MEMBER OF THE ALLIANCE

The Grand Duchy of Aquitania, a long standing friend of the EDF, has been accepted by the EDF Council to be a Tier 3 member of the Alliance. Though those on the third tier do not enjoy a voice on the council, they do have the ability to petition the Council on a wide spectrum of issues as well as expect certain defence obligation from the EDF. Grand Duke Jean III is scheduled in Nuremburg to sign the treaty.

 

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Foreign Office

It is indeed a good day for Belmont-EDF ties that our historic ties have enabled the EDF to induct the Kingdom into the alliance as the first member of the PfS.

 

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Secretariate for Foreign Affairs

His Catholic Highness, Grand Duke Jean III, will leave from Valmy and travel to Nuremburg to personally sign the treaty.

 

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BATAVIE RELIEF WAITING ON SECURITY COUNCIL

With the Security Council of the Council of Nations finally passing the resolution to organize a peacekeeping and relief operation in Batavie, the EDF has been stockpiling relief supplies in the Kingdom of Eireann. With the Eireann government's cooperation, bases to supply both the peacekeeping troops as well as the relief workers have been set up just across the starits seperating northern Batavie and southern Eireann. From such bases, can be quickly deployed and relief supplies and personnel can be sent where they are needed the most once the Security Council gives the go-ahead. Until that time, supplies continue to come in from all the EDF, from both full and associate members as well as a non-member, Khalistan.


EDF EARLY WARNING NETWORK TO BE BUILT

EDF nations, in conjuction with other friendly nations, has begun the construction of a early warning network that when complete will incorporate existing ground and airborne radar systems, with newly developed systems. The first example of the new system is to be constructed in Marquette.

 

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Ministry of Defense

We would like to collaborate and cooperate with our EDF allies in setting up a Early Warning Network.

 

[Aquitania]

Secretariate for Foreign Affairs

The Grand Duchy wishes to both donate to the relief efforts in Batavia and, as a Third Tier member of the EDF, participate in the Early Warning Network.

Henri Mercier, chevalier de l'Ordre du Templiers
Secrétaire d'Affaires Étrangères

 

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EDF ADMITS NEW FULL MEMBER TO COUNCIL

On a full vote of the Governing Council, and without a single decenting vote, Radilo has been admitted as the first voting member of the council since the admission of Marquette in 1973. The Secretary-General, Sir Edwin Wolfe, has communicated the news to Neuveau Port and a signing ceremony will be scheduled at EDF headquarters at the Palais Tucher in Nürnberg to officially welcome Radilo into the alliance.

 

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BATAVIE RELIEF FROM EDF AND NON-ALIGNED STATES FINALLY UNDERWAY

After months of political deadlock, the European Defence Federation Council has authorised the deployment of the peacekeeper contingent, which was originally supposed to get into Batavia under the banner of the CoN. As consensus in the CoN wasn't achievable, the EDF leaders decided to organise a regional mission. "About two thirds of Batavia are still little stabilised. As neighbours of Batavia, we have to help them to get back on their feet again.", a spokesman for the Council justified the decision.

Command of the mission will be held by the Montelimarian commander, whereas the Franconian detachment will be in charge of managing the logistics, communications and intelligence. Additional units - smaller ones - may be contributed by the rest of the EDF, but that is pending negotiations with the Batavian government.

 

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TEST LAUNCH OF NEW MISSILE PROCLAIMED A SUCCESS

EDF military officials have announced the successful submarine launch of the new Triton SLBM. Launched from off the west coast of Mayaland from the Franken navy submarine, KMS Heinrich Dallas, the first of the Posiedon Class Ballistic Missile submarines to enter service, a Triton missile, capable of delivering a classified number of warheads to targets at a classified range, splashed down in a target area south of island nation of Butuan early this morning. Though the launch was to test the missile's ability to be deployed from a submerged submarine, the bull's eye also proved the the success of the missile's new guidance system. The Triton SLBM will eventually replace the aging missiles systems already in the inventories of the various EDF member navies.

 

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BELMONT RESIGNS SEAT ON EDF COUNCIL

A great shock was felt through the European Defence Federation headquarters in Nürnberg when word came that the Kingdom of Belmont had decided to resign its seat on the alliance's governing council of the EDF. Though the Kingdom had no actual vote on the council, it did have a voice and the advice from the Belmontian delegation was always listened to and always given due consideration and has been the inspiration for some of the alliance's policies. The halls of the EDF headquarters will sound strangely silent without the sound of the Belmontian ambassador giving advice or making his opinion known.

With the resignation, the Belmontian delegation will be moving out of the offices that were assigned to them when Belmont became an Associate Member of the alliance, and, depending on the outcome of a council vote, may or may not return to the much smaller offices outside the main complex that they used when Belmont had the PfS (Partnership for Stability) status.