CNS Live Special: Signing of the Rheinland-Liberty peace treaty

[Bundeskabinett Sekretariat]

*Chancellor, after she obviously sincerely enjoys the handshake with Secretary of State and provides lot of time for photograpsh to take pictures, slowly walks to the lectern, looks around and starts her speech*

Honourable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Worthington, distinguished guests and fellow citizens of both Bundesrepublik Rheinland and Republic of Liberty!

I am happy I can stand hier in this historic moment. A moment when enemies are becoming neighbours again, when hostility is replaced by mutual understanding, when disagreements will be again solved by dialog and compromises instead of threats and use of force. We reached the time when both sides together recognized that it will be better to end the war and open the sealed borders instead of fightining and damaging each other.

It was a sign to reconsider path we took when we both suddenly faced threat of possible natural disaster of enormous scale. It was a sign majeure to stop the war.

We have reached a point when it is time to finally bury the war horns and to extend the hand of help and friendship to each other instead. Because while there are and always will be important differences in ways how our two houses organize governments, economies or societies - and we can not and should not ignore them - both nations also share a lot.

Be it common values in lives of their people, for example a sense of patriotism and a sense of pride - a lot of pride. Be it same roots as our ancestors were leaving the Sol system together, escaping from war in which Coalition forces tried to force all people to share one same false ideology and remove diversity of opinions and attitudes.

And it is by far not the only historic moment we share. When we look back, we can for example also see how Liberty and Rheinland were first two houses with real-time interstellar communication after ship LCC Einstein arrived to Rheinland in year 96 A.S., releasing FTL relay buoys on its way. And then our ancestors stroke a strategic deal for both sides which resulted in important technology swap - Liberty's improved engine design in exchange for Rheinland's advances in construction.

Now it is time to build on this history again. To lift the burdens called trade embargoes and restrictions which only hurt the economies of both sides. Rheinland and Liberty alike still have other strong enemies inside as well as outside of their territory. And we both will need a lot of resources, economic power and military assets to fight them and defeat them. Now we can even help each other in this effort.

We are at the beginning of new era. It is time for us both to leave the past behind. It is time for us to look forward to the future together. It may take some time, it may not be always easy and there may be setbacks. But there should be no doubts that this is the right and only path which Rheinland and Liberty had to take.

*Chancellor smiles a little while guests clap gently, then steps aside of the lectern and looks at Secretary of State*

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(//created by Laura C.)