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THE LEAGUE OF CONTINENTAL NATIONS
CHARTER
With the following aims, namely to institute and preserve ETERNAL PEACE on the European Continent, to exclude from continental affairs ALL WHO WOULD INTERFERE with rightfully continental matters, and furthermore to develop and improve HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT within Continental Europe, and to RESOLVE PEACEFULLY whatsoever disputes may arise in the future, the undersigned FOUNDING MEMBERS, namely the Franco-Burgundian Confederation, the Empire of Scandinavia, the Kingdom of Brandenburg, the Kingdom of Austria, the Russian Empire, the Empire of Spain, the Republic of the Netherlands, the Commonwealth of Flanders, and the Italian Republic, whether they be themselves NEUTRAL or whether they be ALLIED, but in no cases whatsoever being at enmity with each other, agree that in the YEAR OF OUR LORD 1908, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL BE HELD INVIOLATE HENCEFORTH:
1) All the below listed nations, as legal and legitimate INDEPENDENT CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN STATES, are hereby invited also to join this League, and may do so by appending their signature also to this charter.
The Papal States
Portugal
Brittany
The Roman Empire
Denmark
Hungary
Romania
Occitania
Pomerania
Sardinia
Serbia as legitimately constituted under the Treaty of Odessa
2) If the United Kingdom of Great Britain is willing to demonstrate their commitment to lasting European peace by sumbitting the full resolution of the Italian question to the League's fair and peaceable arbitration, the United Kingdom is also invited to join the League. If the United Kingdom chooses to decline participation, the League will debate the matter in any case and decide on appropriate action in coming years under Term 6 and 7 of this Charter.
3) The nations that join this League shall meet in a GENERAL ASSEMBLY in a suitable place to be chosen later by mutual agreement.
4) The nations that join this League shall agree to work towards and uphold certain basic humanitarian principles, to be determined at future discussions; there shall be a Slavery Commission, a Commission for Refugees, and an International Court of Justice to arbitrate disputes, and the members shall assist the preexisting International Health Organisation and Calais Convention as long as Flanders in the League in the interests of HUMANITY and UNIVERSAL CONTINENTAL PEACE.
5) The nations that join this League shall agree to resolve all newfound territorial or other disputes through the arbitration of the other members of the League, or through private discussions, or through mutual agreement to refer the case to the International Court of Justice, and not through the use of violence. Until any given dispute is resolved by mutual consent, the disputants shall respect each other's territory as it stood prior to the dispute.
6) The nations that join this League shall agree that, in the case of intervention by any non-member in Continental European affairs, the League shall be entitled to vote to undertake action against the unwanted breach of the generally accepted European Peace.
7) Any member of the League who does not wish to violate his neutrality by participating in such an action as described in Term 6 will not be required to assist, and any associated declaration of war will be undertaken only by the members who choose to contribute troops to the action. Therefore no neutral nation will in any way break its neutrality by joining in this neutral League.
8) The League shall supplement, and not replace, existing alliances between the states of Europe, and existing alliances will still hold sway in all matters outside Continental Europe.
Signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the Franco-Burgundian Confederation
CHARTER
With the following aims, namely to institute and preserve ETERNAL PEACE on the European Continent, to exclude from continental affairs ALL WHO WOULD INTERFERE with rightfully continental matters, and furthermore to develop and improve HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT within Continental Europe, and to RESOLVE PEACEFULLY whatsoever disputes may arise in the future, the undersigned FOUNDING MEMBERS, namely the Franco-Burgundian Confederation, the Empire of Scandinavia, the Kingdom of Brandenburg, the Kingdom of Austria, the Russian Empire, the Empire of Spain, the Republic of the Netherlands, the Commonwealth of Flanders, and the Italian Republic, whether they be themselves NEUTRAL or whether they be ALLIED, but in no cases whatsoever being at enmity with each other, agree that in the YEAR OF OUR LORD 1908, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL BE HELD INVIOLATE HENCEFORTH:
1) All the below listed nations, as legal and legitimate INDEPENDENT CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN STATES, are hereby invited also to join this League, and may do so by appending their signature also to this charter.
The Papal States
Portugal
Brittany
The Roman Empire
Denmark
Hungary
Romania
Occitania
Pomerania
Sardinia
Serbia as legitimately constituted under the Treaty of Odessa
2) If the United Kingdom of Great Britain is willing to demonstrate their commitment to lasting European peace by sumbitting the full resolution of the Italian question to the League's fair and peaceable arbitration, the United Kingdom is also invited to join the League. If the United Kingdom chooses to decline participation, the League will debate the matter in any case and decide on appropriate action in coming years under Term 6 and 7 of this Charter.
3) The nations that join this League shall meet in a GENERAL ASSEMBLY in a suitable place to be chosen later by mutual agreement.
4) The nations that join this League shall agree to work towards and uphold certain basic humanitarian principles, to be determined at future discussions; there shall be a Slavery Commission, a Commission for Refugees, and an International Court of Justice to arbitrate disputes, and the members shall assist the preexisting International Health Organisation and Calais Convention as long as Flanders in the League in the interests of HUMANITY and UNIVERSAL CONTINENTAL PEACE.
5) The nations that join this League shall agree to resolve all newfound territorial or other disputes through the arbitration of the other members of the League, or through private discussions, or through mutual agreement to refer the case to the International Court of Justice, and not through the use of violence. Until any given dispute is resolved by mutual consent, the disputants shall respect each other's territory as it stood prior to the dispute.
6) The nations that join this League shall agree that, in the case of intervention by any non-member in Continental European affairs, the League shall be entitled to vote to undertake action against the unwanted breach of the generally accepted European Peace.
7) Any member of the League who does not wish to violate his neutrality by participating in such an action as described in Term 6 will not be required to assist, and any associated declaration of war will be undertaken only by the members who choose to contribute troops to the action. Therefore no neutral nation will in any way break its neutrality by joining in this neutral League.
8) The League shall supplement, and not replace, existing alliances between the states of Europe, and existing alliances will still hold sway in all matters outside Continental Europe.
Signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the Franco-Burgundian Confederation
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
The United Kingdom of Great Britain defies the League's so-called "fair and peaceful arbitration" as nothing more than a voracious power-grab. We remind the League that involvement in the Italian affairs is strictly forbidden by some of its constituent members following from the Treaty of Tuileries and the Treaty of Madrid.
m.t.cicero
Good Kid
Signed, Prime Minister Johannes van Stappen of the Commonwealth of Flanders
OOC: Should be "Commonwealth", not "Kingdom"
OOC: Should be "Commonwealth", not "Kingdom"
Lord of Elves
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From: Empire of Scandinavia
To: All Whom It Concerns
We sign the declaration of the League of Continental Nations.
To: All Whom It Concerns
We sign the declaration of the League of Continental Nations.
To Britain
From the Confederation
The Treaty of the Tuileries and the Treaty of Madrid do not, in fact, prohibit involvement in Italian affairs; they require that their respective Continental signatories exhibit neutrality with regard to the various conflicts in Italy as they stood at the time of signature. In any case, no Confederate troops or money intends to enter Italy this year.
OOC: m.t.cicero: corrected.
From the Confederation
The Treaty of the Tuileries and the Treaty of Madrid do not, in fact, prohibit involvement in Italian affairs; they require that their respective Continental signatories exhibit neutrality with regard to the various conflicts in Italy as they stood at the time of signature. In any case, no Confederate troops or money intends to enter Italy this year.
OOC: m.t.cicero: corrected.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
To: The Confederation
From: The United Kingdom of Great Britain
Any involvement in Italian affairs at any point in the future by any of the Continental Power signatories will be seen as an unlawful abrogation of the Treaty of Tuileries by said signatories.
From: The United Kingdom of Great Britain
Any involvement in Italian affairs at any point in the future by any of the Continental Power signatories will be seen as an unlawful abrogation of the Treaty of Tuileries by said signatories.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
To: The Confederation
From: The United Kingdom of Great Britain
As the writers, we daresay it is our reading that is the only correct reading. Nevertheless, we have made our position clear, and if France or any of the other Continental Powers intends to deliberately misread it by breaking their neutrality in Italy as part of an unlawful attempt to enforce their political will on Italy, it can and will be seen as a violation of the Treaty of Tuileries.
From: The United Kingdom of Great Britain
As the writers, we daresay it is our reading that is the only correct reading. Nevertheless, we have made our position clear, and if France or any of the other Continental Powers intends to deliberately misread it by breaking their neutrality in Italy as part of an unlawful attempt to enforce their political will on Italy, it can and will be seen as a violation of the Treaty of Tuileries.
Hungary will not be joining the League of Continental Nations, and will preserve our neutrality until it is determined if this body is anything more than a shallow power grab, and actually means what it preaches. When membership is not restricted to the Franco-Burgundian Confederation's friends and allies, then we may consider joining.
To Hungary
From the Confederation
We invited Occitania; we invited you yourself; and we invited several neutral nations, including Brittany and Flanders, neither of whom we have ever had any agreement with. It is true that most members are our friends. But if most major nations in continental Europe are our friends, that should not be held against us.
However, we hope that the League will prove itself by its actions and effects, and not by its words alone, and that one day you will also be satisfied that friendship and peace with the rest of Europe is as beneficial for you as it is for everyone else.
From the Confederation
We invited Occitania; we invited you yourself; and we invited several neutral nations, including Brittany and Flanders, neither of whom we have ever had any agreement with. It is true that most members are our friends. But if most major nations in continental Europe are our friends, that should not be held against us.
However, we hope that the League will prove itself by its actions and effects, and not by its words alone, and that one day you will also be satisfied that friendship and peace with the rest of Europe is as beneficial for you as it is for everyone else.
OOC: Thanks for reminding me about Occitania, and by extension, Pomerania. I believe you may have missed Corsica however.:
Occitania and Pomerania both agree to join the League of Continental Nations.
Occitania and Pomerania both agree to join the League of Continental Nations.
And I missed Denmark, who also agrees to join the League of Continental Nations.
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
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