Palau del Corts, Valls, Ebria
Ada Valen i Codony wasn't happy it came to this. A new crisis in the EF and Thrakia, the socialist revolt in Eugenia offering the perfect casus belli for the Tarusans and their allies in southern Pannonia and as the sun was setting, literally any spark could start a war where Remion, Ebria and Eiffelland would clearly be on the unfortunate side. She had to save the peace, at least give her allies time to heal. The status quo was deeply unbalanced, Tarusa turning from the isolated revisionist power to the one courted by the most and with the most advantage, so the time has come for her to take the reins. Pannonia was a tragic episode that was still bleeding crisis after crisis after crisis, unending crises giving her no chance to do anything but react to everything that is happening. A deep breath had to be taken, to make us that at least things are cemented where they are, so as to not end up in the complete destruction of civilisation with a continental war that will turn into a global one. The Great War episode from exactly a century ago needs not to repeat again.
"Good evening, Stepan Nikolayevich," she said, as a secretary introduced into her office, the Tarusan diplomat Baron Stepan Nikolayevich Kadurin. Ada Valen knew him from the days when he was young and was stationed as an ambassador in Valls. She used the polite and formal way of addressing, using the name and the patronymic, using a clean Tarusan. "I am quite sad that we had to meet each other again in such circumstances, after so many years. Hopefully, if what we do today will end well, we might enjoy some less tense times," she said with a slight smile, reminiscing certain times in both their youths, when he was an ambassador and she was just a sub-secretary at the ministry.
She invited the Tarusan diplomat to sit down, and nodded towards the secretary to leave them alone. The room, which was her official office was decorated with a big desk, with the portrait of the Ebrian King, Arnau V de Vilar, sided by two royal Ebrian blue-white flags. They weren't sitting there, they were sitting at a table farther away from the desk, closer to a window that offered a panorama of the Gran Via des Corts d'Ebria, one of the city's main thoroughfares. The table had sheets of paper and writing instruments for both of them, a map of Pannonia and some water for both.
"I am deeply sorry that I am jumping directly to the subject here, but I feel that we must be swift, yet thorough so as to save the peace. I would say that peace in necessary and I think you approve, your excellency. That is why the situation in Pannonia cannot continue like this. It needs to be stabilised. No simple ceasefire will end ever be enough, especially when people are tense, hot headed and trigger happy. We need a peace treaty that is to be respected by both sides, whose violation can only be seen as unimaginable and unthinkable. That is why, I propose the following. We save the peace by offering recognition to all successor states in Pannonia, we sort the Serbovian communities in Eugenia and we sort the issue of the prisoners. If we solve those issues, I would say that there will be nothing to stop us from enjoying a peaceful reprieve from this quagmire that is and was Pannonia. This is my proposal:"
- All states created in the aftermath of the collapse of Pannonia are to be recognised and be seen as legitimate. That includes the Kingdoms of Csengia and Pojazerna, the Confederation of Bourdignie but also, and especially the Socialist Republic of Eugenia. And I will say this is important. Ebria, Guyenny and the likes already recognise them. Remion will recognise Csengia and Pojazerna, while Tarusa and Serbovia will recognise the Socialist Republic of Eugenia. With this recognition, the borders will be considered inviolable and we won't see from each side militias or other unlawful crossings.
- The borders of Eugenia will be redrawn, with the republic losing approximately 500 square kilometres in those two regions on the border where the Serboves are the majority. We will accept that and Serbovia can administer that territory, with the condition of giving non Serboves living there the right to move into Eugenia or Remion and afterwards respecting the involability of the Eugenian border and recognise its government.
- A change of prisoners. The Tarusan soldiers that have been put under arrest by Remion for crimes against humanity, will be liberated and sent to Tarusa. In exchange, Tarusa will release the crew of the Oyleric and allow them safe passage to a port of their choosing.
"Those are the main ones and I would say that this gives us the chance to settle down. After we do this, my hope is that we can see a steel curtain fall down and we don't see the threat of war every time we wake up. At the same time, I also hope that this will turn Tarusa into our side regarding the rights and duties of free shipping, and there won't be other episodes like the recent one," she said, waiting to see what the Tarusan diplomat had to say.
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