The Micras Treaty Organization is charged with upholding peace between its member states. Its two instruments in that mission are law and trust: the treaties that its component nations have signed, and the trust that those treaties will not be ignored when they become inconvenient.
Recently, this mission of the Organization has been threatened. The Elwynnese Union has attacked the Shirerithian city of Jessvillia. Forty-one people were killed. The Imperial Republic is outraged and upset.
Both Shireroth and Elwynn are signatories to the "Small Treaty of Non-Aggression" (hereafter SToNA), which specifically states that "all signatory nations shall not engage in any hostile or aggressive action toward any other signatory nation". West Elwynn has violated this treaty and with it the explicit covenants that form the foundation of the Treaty Organization and with it peace on Micras.
The only exception allowed by SToNA is "Recreational Wars that are considered friendly by the nations involved at the initiation of the recreational war." As representative of Shireroth, I hereby certify that Shireroth did not consider this a friendly action. All existing recwar leagues, including SNARL, QUARREL, and Anunia, enshrine consent as the fundamental principle of recreational warfare. Shireroth did not consent to this attack at any level. There is a specific and separate treaty, the Small Commonwealth Ongoing recWar League Treaty (hereafter SCOWL-T), for countries who wish to allow recreational warfare without explicit consent. Neither Shireroth nor Elwynn has signed SCOWL-T. I therefore maintain that the Elwynnese attack on Shireroth falls under the category of action that SToNA is intended to prevent.
This is a difficult time for Shiro-Elwynnese relations due to a plot on the life of former Prince Ayreon of Elwynn. The Elwynnese have every right to be upset about this plot and to request Shirerithian cooperation in bringing justice to the criminals responsible. However, this cooperation was offered. In fact, Shireroth specifically offered to bring the matter before MTO mediation, the correct and recommended action according to Article 3 of SToNA: "If there is a dispute between signatory nations they will bring it before an agreed upon neutral third party for arbitration. If no third party can be agreed upon the matter shall be arbitrated by the General Assembly." Elwynn ignored this offer and decided to respond with violence.
No MTO treaty recommends a specific penalty for violation of the treaty, but the voluntary and non-binding nature of this organization's power suggests an obvious consequence: suspension of MTO membership for the nation involved. Therefore, the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, with deep sadness and disappointment at the string of events that have led to this request, must propose the following motion:
RESOLUTION SUSPENDING THE ELWYNNESE UNION
The General Assembly of the Micras Treaty Organization adopts the resolution on the findings that the Elwynnese Union has broken the treaties of the Small Commonwealth, and that this happened willfully and with malice aforethought, and with specific and conscious rejection of the legal alternative of MTO mediation.
Accordingly the General Assembly:
1. Suspends the membership of Elwynn in this organization.
2. Authorizes the Secretary-General to convene a panel of neutral mediators between Shireroth and Elwynn, to determine a fair sum of reparations to be paid by the latter to the former.
3. Agrees that upon completed payment of these reparations, and an official apology by the Elwynnese government to Shireroth and to the MTO and international community, Elwynn's membership be reinstated.