Second Draft of the Treaty of Curacao

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Mr Sanders,

The clause in question, I think, was originally drafted with the intention that Orbital Spa and Cruise and Independent Miners Guild ships could be requested by acting by acting NATO commanders to serve alongside the LN and BAF forces. However, the OSC and IMG ships in question would always retain the right to opt-out of any such participation, as they represent primarily commercial rather than military forces. Naturally no requests would be made in any way obliging civilian trade vessels to engage in combat actions. Note also that I had not included equivalent rankings for OSC and IMG officers under the NATO shared command structure - the intention was always that OSC and IMG would remain only affiliated members of NATO, and that any of their ships agreeing to serve alongside regular NATO forces would not do so in a position of command as ranking NATO officers.

I trust that you may pass these comments on to your Orbital Spa and Cruise collegues, and reassure them that the main role of Orbital Spa and Cruise in NATO would be hosting the organisation's headquaters on Curacao, rather than contributing to its combat forces. I am sure they would agree that the prestige associated with such a significant organisation would naturally be to Orbital Spa and Cruise's commercial advantage.

Yours sincerely,

Commodore Stanley Nelson
BAF Diplomatic Officer
5th Fleet - HMS Suffolk

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>