PRIORITY:High ENCRYPTION:High IDENTIFICATION:Laura Caspers, Staatssekretärin of the Bundeskabinett Sekretariat SOURCE:Bundeskanzleramt, Planet New Berlin
Guten Tag, Sehr geehrter President White.
It is quite absurd to hear you talking about possible breach of peace treaty regarding free trade during negotiations where you request from us to introduce additional cargo restriction to the Rheinland laws. Also, if you plan to start calling our negotiations "attempt to extort", I can very much do the same because those are exactly words which some Bundestag representatives use during discussions about your request and the way you promote it. However it will get us nowhere so I think there is no need for this.
Maybe for you this is not a political issue, but I can assure you it is quite a big one hier in Rheinland and will be even more now when things are slowly getting public now. You may not like it, but that is how it is and you have to deal with it.
If it was not obvious enough from what I said during our talks so far, the fact is that part of Bundestag representatives refuse to vote for the agreement in form you proposed at the beginning. For them changing laws in favour of not one, but three Liberty corporations is not something trivial, so they want to see Rheinland getting something too. Something what will help to present the agreement as beneficial for both sides, especially to the citizens, so they will not get impression Rheinland legislators are under influence...or even direct control of Liberty corporations. That can have implications I am not sure you realize, including even increase of support for Rheinland criminal movements and organizations such as Red Hessians, Bundschuh and mainly Unioners which are known for their antiforeign rhetoric.
And when I am at explaining, let me also note that the way you handle our talks is starting to be a problem itself and I do not mean myself now. Over time it created impression that you approached us not to ask for something and negotiate about with respectfully, but to order the Rheinland government what we are obliged to do for you and expected we will do it obediently without a single comment. And that is becoming an issue in which you are harming yourself, because government and Bundestag representatives which are interested and request access can see your messages and some of them really do not like the tone and words you use. They can be hardly called diplomatic, and for many people they are not even respectful.
Your reply regarding possibility of Rheinland corporations getting privilege to transport your products is very gut example of that. You could have said that it is not acceptable for your corporation and then simply explain why. But nein, you felt the need to call Rheinland irresponsible and our corporations as incompetent to adhere your guidelines, despite I seriously doubt you can assess that accurately at this moment. Despite we have treated you with respect during these negotiations, without touching any issues of responsibility with reminding you Texas incident or that situation with diamonds. We actually started to apply what you requested in attempt to show interest to reach an agreement instead.
Honestly, this is starting to take its toll. There is increasing numbers of voices that the understanding attitude got us nowhere, or actually in even worse position because as you declared, right now Ageira Technologies is unwilling to provide us emergency services. And thus maybe all we should do is to stop negotiations and return to the state before them, revoking the restriction of transportation of your products in Rheinland space. Once again, you request something what you have granted by laws only in your house of origin at this moment, yet you act like attitude of the Rheinland government of not approving everything you want automatically is something extremely exceptional.
I hope you finally understand why government, which like I said before is actually interested to find some agreement which would satisfy both sides, is trying to find something what can be presented as our gain from the deal, especially when the deal is supposed to involve two more Liberty corporations. This returns us to the issue of possibility of Rheinland corporations transporting your products. Your corporation do not want to allow that for reasons you mentioned, which can be summarized as concerns about following your guidelines, safety measures and generally insufficient control you would have about your products reaching their destination.
On the other hand, you said that Ageira Technologies itself do not have enough transport capacities to fully cover Rheinland needs alone and that is why more corporations need to be involved. For this reason we would like to propose idea similar to our previous one in nature, but possibly solving your concerns. How about allowing Rheinland corporations transporting your products only to Rheinland, and only under mandatory supervision of at least one ship of your primary division?
Now before I finish this message, to prevent any misinterpretation I will rather note that the proposal is not any "attempt to extort shipping rights for your Whiteboxes™". It is just us looking for something what could be presented as the benefit of the Bundesrepublik from the deal. However, like I suggested, if you plan to refuse -every- our proposal and on top of that insist that Ageira Technologies will not provide emergency services until -all- your demands are fulfilled, not to mention you did not came with any possible compromise proposal whole time, the situation may start to be complicated. But do not consider this as a threat, just as a stating a fact, Herr President White. Sort of incentive towards you to really consider things carefully so the effort invested into these negoations from both me and you will not end wasted.
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