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Oh yeah... I have bad memory
Volaworand, Roswaesian diplomacy, and The united chinese republic
We're still going to keep control of Vladivostok. If you need a Pacific port, use Nakhodka or something.
The New Herdonian Government is interested in purchasing the Falkland Islands protectorate's control from your nation for 9,420,000 Herdonian Dollars worth of your currency. A referendum (which the Herdonian Government will foot the bill for) may also be held to see if the people wish for their nation to be handed to another.
But you already gave it to 
East Sakhlin in your most recent treaty, plus it would only be right to give us that mini spot of land after you have taken ALL of China.
East Sakhlin and The united chinese republic
That would be highly unlikely to succeed, and 
British Falkland Islands enjoys a strong economic and defence integration, which would be at risk should they leave the our sphere of influence. Our agreement is essentially a sovereignty-association where we handle foreign affairs and share defence responsibilities, but the nation operates independently. You could approach them, but such a request is likely to be rebuffed.
An Agreement between the Governments concerning the sharing of consular services abroad, and recognizing the similar philosophies underlying the provision of consular services to their respective nationals as well as the benefits flowing from cooperation in consular matters, the nations have reached the following understanding on consular services to be provided to their respective nationals, points of service and other applicable conditions detailed below.
Scope
1) In the interest of providing consular protection and assistance to the citizens travelling or resident in consular areas specified in the Schedule to this Memorandum of Understanding (referred to as "the specified consular areas") where there is not a consular officer of their own nation, the missions of the other nations specified in the Schedule of this Memorandum of Understanding (referred to as "the responsible missions:) will extend to the citizens of the other nation the consular services specified in paragraph 5 (referred to as "the specified consular services").
2) Each Government will assume the costs of its own administration including communications, salaries, travel and overtime costs of both headquarters and locally-engaged mission personnel, but will reimburse the other Government of funds provided to, or expended on behalf of, consular clients as part of the specified consular services. The Supervising Mission concerned will reimburse the relevant Mission of the other country as soon as possible for the amounts in question. Consequently, Governments will not seek reimbursement direct from citizens of the other country.
3) The Government providing specified consular services will levy fees as required by its own regulations and will retain such fees.
Responsible missions, specified consular areas and supervising missions
4) The responsible missions of each Government together with the specified consular areas for which they are responsible and the supervising missions of the other Government are set out in the Schedule to this Memorandum of Understanding.
Specified consular services
5) The specified consular services extended under this Memorandum of Understanding will be the following:
a) intervention in the case of arrest or detention;
b) intervention to assist victims of crime and/or accidents;
c) assistance on international child abduction/custody cases;
d) relief, financial assistance and repatriation (services provided on a recoverable basis), including intervention in the case of deportation;
e) assistance in the case of illness and hospitalization, including arrangements for the payment of medical and hospital accounts (services provided on a recoverable basis);
f) issue of emergency travel documents in accordance with paragraphs 8 and 10;
g) assistance with arrangements regarding the deaths of citizens including local burial or shipments of the remains;
h) assistance relating to lost or stolen property enquiries;
i) assistance relating to local enquiries regarding the whereabouts of nationals of the other country;
j) assistance relating to crisis management;
k) local registration of nationals of the other country;
l) retention of private mail on behalf of travelling citizens, if the responsible mission already does this for its own citizens;
m) passing on requests for information and services not covered in subparagraphs (a) to (l) to the supervising mission; and
n) reporting monthly to respective Departments statistics showing time spent on items (a) to (k) and including general inquiries received by telephone or over the counter.
These services will be provided in accordance with the provisions and administrative financial regulations of each Government, as set forth in paragraphs 19, 20 and 21.
6) Services which will not be included in this Memorandum of Understanding are the issuance of regular passports or of visas of any kind, legal or notarial acts, assistance in extradition cases, administration of the estates of citizens, registration of deaths, invigilation of examinations and the provision of specific information on any matter other than that pertaining to those consular services set out in paragraph 5.
Emergency travel documents
7) When directed by the supervising mission the responsible mission will issue "Emergency Passports" to citizens effective only for a limited time and for the purpose of travelling to the citizens home nation or to the nearest home nation mission.
8) When directed by the supervising mission the responsible mission will issue "Documents of Identity" to citizens effective only for a limited time and for the purpose of travelling to another member nation or to the nearest member nation mission.
9) Each member government will deposit an accountable number of "Emergency Passports" and "Documents of Identity" with each responsible mission.
10) Member Governments shall identify the names and positions of the Consular Officers at each responsible mission who it is proposed will issue emergency travel documents under this MOU so that other member governments may designate such persons to carry out that function on their behalf.
Crisis management
11) All Governments recognize the value and importance of contingency planning and crisis management, and the opportunities presented by multilateral cooperation in this area. All Governments have mutually decided that:
(i) each responsible mission will account for member nation citizens in their emergency plans for the schedule of countries under this MOU;
(ii) the responsible mission will share these emergency plans with the appropriate supervising mission; and
(iii) the responsible and supervising missions will foster an ongoing dialogue on contingency planning whereby their roles and responsibilities as they relate to the emergency plans are clarified and updated as needed.
12) All Governments recognize the value and importance of contingency planning exercises. All Governments have mutually decided that their missions will invite participation from their counterpart mission(s) in contingency planning exercises that are conducted in countries of their accreditation. All Governments especially encourage joint participation in contingency planning exercises conducted in specified consular areas under the multilateral consular sharing agreement. In addition, all Governments will look to host capitals-managed crisis preparedness exercises and liaise with each other on timing and participation.
Role of supervising missions
13) Each responsible mission will report to, and seek specific instructions and authorities from, its supervising mission. All Governments recognize the importance of regular personal contact between officials of supervising missions and their charges in order to monitor implementation of this Memorandum of Understanding, provide supplies and advice and information that may be useful for the delivery of consular services to respective nationals. Supervising missions are encouraged to visit their charges annually. Supervising missions should ensure that appropriate training is provided and that there is a full understanding of the applicable service standards or client service charters.
Communications
14) Consultations between missions will often be by telephone. However, specific instructions and authorities should be confirmed in writing so that there is a written record. Such messages may be relayed either directly between missions by commercial means, or through the communications facilities of either Government. Each Government will explore and where agreed to, establish electronic communications between missions using appropriate communications and software technologies.
Travel advisories
15) All Governments recognize the value and importance of providing their respective nationals with up to date information on intended destinations. All Governments agree on the need to ensure close cooperation in the dissemination of travel reports, especially for those destinations covered by the present Memorandum of Understanding.
Language of service
16) All Governments will provide specified consular services in English. The Government of a citizen requesting service will indemnify the Government providing service for any incremental costs in providing service in other languages. In the event a mission is unable to provide service to a national in a language understood by that national, the mission will provide that person with direct access to telephone or electronic communications facilities to the home nation supervising mission.
Complaints
17) In the event of a complaint by any national about service provided by a mission of another country, the complaint should be referred to the home department of the relevant mission for investigation.
Privacy
18) Personal information provided by a national or permanent resident of a member country to a consular or diplomatic agent of the other country will be afforded protection in accordance with the privacy requirements of the nation providing service while respecting, to all practical extent possible, the laws of the citizens home nation, as applicable. To the extent that either country has information about citizens of the other country in its possession or under its control, where there is a request for access to personal information from an individual about themselves, the country in possession or control of the information requested will respond according to the terms of its own legislation. Use or disclosure of personal information in the possession of or under the control of the Responsible Mission is permissible in accordance with the privacy law of the country of the Responsible Mission. In the event of conflict with the obligations to the Supervising Mission under this arrangement, the privacy laws of the country of the Responsible Mission will prevail. When appropriate, the clients consent should be obtained before personal information is disclosed to another party. As a general rule: a) the information should be used only for the purpose for which it has been obtained; and b) the information should be afforded adequate protection and disposed of when no longer required.
Consular guides and instructions
19) For services provided on behalf of Volaworand the standing instructions will be those in the Manual of Consular Instructions (volumes 1 and 2).
20) For services provided on behalf of British Pitcairn Islands, British Falkland Islands, S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands, and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha the standing instructions will be those found in the British Overseas Territories Consular Instructions and the Manual of Passport Issue.
21) Government officers may be provided with specific consular, administrative, and financial instructions relating to this Memorandum of Understanding mutually decided upon by member Governments, to supplement the general instructions referred to in paragraphs 19 and 20.
Notification and publicity
22) All Governments will ensure that the Governments of Receiving States are aware and have no objection to the arrangements for consular sharing provided for in this Memorandum of Understanding.
23) All Governments will take steps to inform its citizens who are travelling to or resident in the specified consular area of the consular protection and assistance they may expect.
Final provisions
24) The member Governments will consult from time to time at the request of either to consider amendments to this Memorandum of Understanding (including changes to the Schedule), which they jointly consider desirable.
25) The operation of this Memorandum of Understanding will be reviewed annually with meetings rotating between all parties.
26) This Memorandum of Understanding replaces any existing bilateral consular service agreements between members. A member nation may withdrawn from this MOU by giving notice of termination in writing on the same date to all other member nations. The Memorandum of Understanding will cease to apply to that nation 6 months after receipt of that notice. Such termination will not affect the continuation in force in the remaining nations.
SIGNED at Stanley, this 16th day of November, 2017.
We've also built recognition of this arrangement into numerous bilateral treaties we have signed, and we are not inclined to reopen negotiation of those six agreements unless BFI so requested.
Signed on the 30th of December, 2017
The Governments of Auphelia and Volaworand, hereinafter referred to as the Parties:
SEEKING to strengthen the special bonds of friendship and cooperation among our peoples;
RECOGNIZING the mutual benefit of expanding trade between our nations;
BUILDING on our respective rights and obligations under the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement and other multilateral and bilateral instruments of cooperation;
HOPING to contribute to the harmonious development and expansion of regional trade and to provide a catalyst to broader international cooperation;
HAVE AGREED as follows:
ARTICLE I. AGREEMENT
that we desire a trade agreement be established between Auphelia and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand and that there shall be everlasting peace, friendship, commerce, and cooperation between our nations.
ARTICLE II. DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION
1) Parties to this treaty recognize the exclusive territorial sovereignty of the other and reject any overlapping or competing territorial claims of other nations.
2) Parties shall establish a diplomatic and trade offices in the capital and one additional city of the other, and shall employ an ambassador to facilitate friendship between nations and maintain consular services for their nationals located in the host nation.
i. Volaworand will allow an embassy in the capital of Rothera and a trade office in the city of Faraday and Auphelia shall allow an embassy in the capital of Virgo and a trade office in city of Capricorn.
ii. Host governments are responsible to ensure external security of diplomatic staff in their nation. Each Party is allowed to send up to a maximum of 10 armed military or internal security personnel for each consular location.
3) The operation of shared consular services for the nationals of other nations are allowed with the consent of the Host Nation.
i. Auphelia recognizes Volaworand's prior agreements outlined in Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Sharing of Consular Services and consents to Volaworand offering consular services to nationals named therein.
ARTICLE III. CITIZEN TRAVEL
1) Parties recognize the Passport or Document of Identity issued by the other nation as a valid and sufficient identification of travelers at all ports of entry.
2) Parties shall, subject to reasonable regulation, allow citizens of the other entry for the purposes of tourism or pleasure, business or commercial activity, and educational or cultural exchanges.
3) In all ports, stations and settlements, other than military installations, citizens of each nation may travel and reside; they shall have the right to rent or lease ground, rent or purchase buildings and dwellings, may erect dwellings and warehouses, and conduct commerce subject to local laws and the terms of their entry. Neither nation will allow a wall, fence, or gate be erected by the host government around said places of residence or commerce, or anything done which may prevent a free egress and ingress to the same.
4) Citizens of one nation accused and charged of criminal offenses in another nation shall be subject to deportation and be tried under their home nations system of justice. The Parties shall ensure their system of justice be open to the citizens of the other nation, to enable them to recover their just civil claims against citizens.
5) Each nation agrees to not harbor criminals of other nation and shall, upon written diplomatic request, extradite citizens to the custody of their home nation.
ARTICLE IV. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
1) Citizens of each nation shall be allowed the peaceful free exercise of their religion in the other nation, and for this purpose shall have the right to erect or maintain suitable places of worship. No injury shall be done to such buildings, nor any insult be offered to the religious worship. Citizens shall not injure any church, temple or shrine, or offer any insult or injury to religious ceremonies, or to the objects of their worship.
2) The Treaty parties shall not do anything that may be calculated to excite religious agitation or animosity, including proselytization. Citizens whose religious practice is disruptive of peace and order, may be subject to deportation after diplomatic consultation.
ARTICLE V. TRADE DUTY REDUCTION
1) The Parties agree to a maximum import duty of 2% shall be paid on all landed goods, and on all articles of local production that are exported as cargo, that have originate from the other Party. No higher duties shall be paid on such goods imported than are fixed by this agreement, nor shall any higher duties be paid than are levied on the same description of goods if imported in the vessels of any other nation. All goods imported and which have paid the duty fixed by this agreement may be transported into any part of the nation without the payment of any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.
i. Volaworand further reduces the import duty to 1.5% on the rice and grain exports of Auphelia, and;
ii. Auphelia further reduces the import duty to 1.5% on water and ice exports of Volaworand.
2) Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the imposition of sales taxes or revenue duties which are levied equally on both imports and domestic products.
3) Nothing in this Agreement shall impact the duty free trade of goods governed by provisions of the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement (SPaRTA).
4) The importation of environmentally sensitive flora, fauna, and other materials are prohibited and any vessel arriving by space, air, sea, or land faring vessel shall be subject to verification and inspection of goods on board and all such cargo regulated above shall be seized and either returned to the exporting nation at that nations expense or, if the value is less than the transport costs, destroyed by the local authorities.
ARTICLE VI. NATIONAL ANIMAL EXCHANGE
1) The parties shall exchange breeding groups of their national animals without cost for the purpose of zoological exhibition in the other nation, or other purposes as mutually agreed. Each nation consents to supply directly or indirectly an appropriate source of animal feed at cost for the duration of the exchange.
i. Auphelia will offer a breeding pair of Auphelian Unicorns for exhibition in the Rothera zoo in Volaworand and Volaworand will provide a flock of 12 penguins for exhibition in the Virgo Zoo.
2) Each nation shall be responsible for the health of animals in their charge. In the event of an animal's death, the providing nation shall be compensated at reasonable market rates in effect at the time and a replacement national animal provided in a reasonable timeframe.
3) In the event a nation changes its national animal, they agree to forfeit claim on the animals in custody of the other nations and supply a breeding pair of the new animal within 30 days.
ARTICLE VII. ACADEMIC SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES
1)Exchanges of scientific and academic personnel between schools, universities, research stations, and other institutions such are encouraged and the governments of both parties will expedite the local permitting and visa process for persons involved in such exchanges. Results of joint non-military research projects are to be published jointly by the educational or research institutions of nations participating in such exchanges.
i. Taurus University in Auphelia and Volaworand Antarctic College in Volaworand shall both allow international students from the other nation, and assign a minimum of 100 permanent slots for foreign students in these institutions.
ii. The Parties shall recognize the credentials issued of each others primary diploma and higher education degree programs within their education programs.
ARTICLE VIII. GOVERNMENT MILITARY TRADE
1)The Party governments may purchase from the other party governments ships-of-war, merchant ships, submarine vessels, whale ships, cannon, munitions of war, military drones, space satellites, craft and arms of all kinds, and any other things they may require. Nations shall have the right to employ, in the other nation, scientific, naval and military personnel, technicians and artisans of all kind, and mariners to enter into its service, for the purpose of facilitating this government-to-government trade. The said person's employed may not trade arms or military materials with the private sector or parties outside this agreement. Each Party shall disclose to the host nation government the names, nature of employment and addresses of all government contracted personnel operating in the host nation.
2) Each nation shall have the right to expel individual government contracted personnel of the other.
3) The Parties agree not to trade material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. The Parties are entitled to participate in the fullest possible study and exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to:
i. the further development of the applications of atomic or nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
ii. the further development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of bacteriology (biology) for prevention of disease and the use of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes.
iii. the development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of chemistry for improvement of agriculture and the use of chemical agents for peaceful purposes.
ARTICLE IX. MUTAL AID
Both signatories henceforth shall, upon request, send international aid including (but not limited to) food, water, civilian shelter or construction equipment as appropriate after massive or heavy destruction and/or casualties has been suffered in the other country. Both signatories shall provide shelter and protection to each other's populations if displaced by war, military conflict or declared natural disaster.
ARTICLE X. AMENDMENT
At the desire of either party, and on fourteen days notice given in writing, this Treaty, together with any regulations of trade hereunto annexed, or those that may be hereafter introduced, shall be subject to revision by Commissioners appointed on both sides for this purpose, who will be empowered to decide and insert therein, such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable and unanimously agreeable to both parties. Agreements become effective when both nations agree in writing and then update their fact book entries or dispatches. If agreement has not been reached at the end of fourteen days the original terms remain in force.
ARTICLE XI. WITHDRAWAL
1) A nation may withdraw from this treaty on one months notice given in writing. Citizens of other treaty party nations who are living or traveling in the withdrawing nation during this period shall be allowed to depart the nation without hindrance. The Treaty will remain in force during the notice period.
2) If a Nation departs the South Pacific region or ceases to exist on nationstates.net it will be deemed to have withdrawn. Any successor nation will not have an automatic right to resume this Treaty.
ARTICLE XII. CONCLUSION
This Treaty shall go into effect on the 1st of January 2018. This Treaty is executed in duplicate, each copy being written in English, both versions having the same meaning and intention, and posted on each nations fact book or dispatches on nationstates.net.
See Also: Ratified Treaties Of Volaworand
Signed on the 22nd of September, 2018
The Governments of Hanguk-Nippon and Volaworand, hereinafter referred to as the Parties:
SEEKING to encourage friendship and cooperation among our peoples;
BUILDING on our shared partipation in the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement
RECOGNIZING the necessity to establish formal affairs concerning social, political, and economic dimensions of relations between our nations;
HOPING the peaceful cooperation of our states will promote stability and harmony throughout the South Pacific region;
HAVE AGREED as follows:
ARTICLE I. AGREEMENT
That formal diplomatic relations be established between The Imperial Sinjōist State of Hanguk-Nippon and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand and that there shall be everlasting peace, friendship, commerce, and cooperation between our nations.
ARTICLE II. DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION
1) Parties to this treaty recognize the exclusive territorial sovereignty of the other and reject any overlapping or competing territorial claims of other nations.
2) Each nation shall establish an embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission in the capital city of the other, shall employ an ambassador to facilitate friendship between nations and maintain consular services for their nationals located in the host nation.
i. Volaworand will allow an embassy in the capital of Rothera and Hanguk-Nippon shall allow an embassy in the capital of Seoul.
ii. Host governments are responsible to ensure external security of diplomatic staff in their nation. Each Party is allowed to send up to a maximum of 10 armed military or internal security personnel for each consular location.
3) Shared consular services are allowed with consent of the Host nation.
i. Hanguk-Nippon recognizes Volaworand's prior agreements outlined in Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Sharing of Consular Services and so recognizes British Pitcairn Islands British Falkland Islands S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha as protectorates of Volaworand.
ii. Volaworand recognizes Valthesia as a protectorate of Hanguk-Nippon.
ARTICLE III. CITIZEN TRAVEL
1) Parties recognize the Passport or Document of Identity issued by the other nation as a valid and sufficient identification of travelers at all ports of entry.
2) Parties shall, subject to reasonable regulation, allow citizens of the other entry for the purposes of tourism or pleasure, business or commercial activity, and educational or cultural exchanges.
3) In all ports, stations and settlements, other than military installations, citizens of each nation may travel and reside; they shall have the right to rent or lease ground, rent or purchase buildings and dwellings, may erect dwellings and warehouses, and conduct commerce subject to local laws and the terms of their entry. Neither nation will allow a wall, fence, or gate be erected by the host government around said places of residence or commerce, or anything done which may prevent a free egress and ingress to the same.
4) Citizens of one nation accused and charged of criminal offenses in another nation shall be subject to deportation and be tried under their home nations system of justice. The Parties shall ensure their system of civil justice be open to the citizens of the other nation, to enable them to recover their just civil claims against citizens.
5) Each nation agrees to not harbor criminals of other nation and shall, upon written diplomatic request, extradite citizens to the custody of their home nation.
ARTICLE IV. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
1)Citizens of each nation shall be allowed the peaceful free exercise of their religion in the other nation, and for this purpose shall have the right to erect or maintain suitable places of worship. No injury shall be done to such buildings, nor any insult be offered to the religious worship. Citizens shall not injure any church, temple or shrine, or offer any insult or injury to religious ceremonies, or to the objects of their worship.
2)The Treaty parties shall not do anything that may be calculated to excite religious agitation or animosity, including proselytization. Citizens whose religious practice is disruptive of peace and order, may be subject to deportation after diplomatic consultation.
ARTICLE V. TRADE
1) The Parties agree to a maximum import duty of 2% shall be paid on all landed goods, and on all articles of local production that are exported as cargo, that have originate from the other Party. No higher duties shall be paid on such goods imported than are fixed by this agreement, nor shall any higher duties be paid than are levied on the same description of goods if imported in the vessels of any other nation. All goods imported and which have paid the duty fixed by this agreement may be transported into any part of the nation without the payment of any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.
2) Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the imposition of sales taxes or revenue duties which are levied equally on both imports and domestic products.
3) Nothing in this Agreement shall impact the duty free trade of goods governed by provisions of the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement (SPaRTA).
4) The importation of environmentally sensitive flora, fauna, and other materials are prohibited and any vessel arriving by space, air, sea, or land faring vessel shall be subject to verification and inspection of goods on board and all such cargo regulated above shall be seized and either returned to the exporting nation at that nations expense or, if the value is less than the transport costs, destroyed by the local authorities.
ARTICLE VI. NATIONAL ANIMAL EXCHANGE
1)Each Party shall offer an exchange of a breeding pair of their national animals without cost for the purpose of zoological exhibition in the other nation, or other purposes as mutually agreed. Each nation consents to supply directly or indirectly an appropriate source of animal feed at cost for the durartion of the exchange.
2) Each nation shall be responsible for the health of animals in their charge. In the event of an animal's death, the providing nation shall be compensated at no lower than the market rates in effect at the time and a replacement national animal provided in a reasonable timeframe.
3)In the event a nation changes its national animal, they agree to forfeit claim the animals in custody of the other nations and supply a breeding pair of the new animal within 30 days.
ARTICLE VII. SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES
1) Exchanges of scientific and academic personnel between schools, universities, research stations, and other institutions such are encouraged and the governments of both parties will expedite the local permitting and visa process for persons involved in such exchanges. Results of joint non-military research projects are to be published jointly by the educational or research institutions of nations participating in such exchanges.
i. The Parties shall recognize the credentials issued of each others primary diploma and higher education degree programs within their domestic education programs.
2) The Parties agree not to trade material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. The Parties are entitled to participate in the fullest possible study and exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to:
i. the further development of the applications of atomic or nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
ii. the further development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of bacteriology (biology) for prevention of disease and the use of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes.
iii. the development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of chemistry for improvement of agriculture and the use of chemical agents for peaceful purposes.
ARTICLE VIII. GOVERNMENT MILITARY TRADE
1)Treaty party governments may purchase from the other government ships-of-war, merchant ships, submarine vessels, whale ships, cannon, munitions of war, military drones, space satellites, craft and arms of all kinds, and any other things they may require. Nations shall have the right to employ, in the other nation, scientific, naval and military personnel, technicians and artisans of all kind, and mariners to enter into its service, for the purpose of facilitating this government-to-government trade. The said person's employed may not trade arms or military materials to the private sector or parties outside this Treaty. Each Nation shall disclose to the host nation government the names, nature of employment and addresses of all government contracted personnel operating in the host nation.
2) Each nation shall have the right to expel individual government contracted personnel of the other.
3) Volaworand's status as a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory requires it shall not receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Hanguk-Nippon agrees not to trade prohibited material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices with any citizen or agent of Volaworand.
ARTICLE IX. INTELLIGENCE SHARING
1) Both parties to this treaty agree to share intelligence information about the threats or hostile activities of any nation or group that threatens the peace and security of the other nation.
ARTICLE X. NON-AGGRESSION AND MUTUAL AID
1) Both nations henceforth shall maintain a non-aggressive military stance towards the other and not provide aid or comfort to the declared enemies of the other nation.
2) Both signatories henceforth shall, upon request, send international aid including (but not limited to) food, water, or construction equipment after massive or heavy destruction and/or casualties has been inflicted on the other country by war, military conflict or declared natural disaster.
ARTICLE XI. AMENDMENT
At the desire of either party, and on fourteen days notice given in writing, this Treaty, together with any regulations hereunto annexed, or those that may be hereafter introduced, shall be subject to revision by Commissioners appointed on both sides for this purpose, who will be empowered to decide and insert therein, such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable and unanimously agreeable to both parties. Agreements become effective when all nations agree in writing and then update their fact book entries or dispatches. If agreement has not been reached at the end of fourteen days the original terms remain in force.
ARTICLE XII. WITHDRAWAL
1) A nation may withdraw from this treaty on one months notice given in writing. Citizens of other treaty party nations who are living or traveling in the withdrawing nation during this period shall be allowed to depart the nation without hindrance. The Treaty will remain in force during the notice period.
2) If a nation ceases to exist on nationstates.net it will be deemed to have withdrawn. Any successor nation will not have an automatic right to resume this Treaty.
ARTICLE XIII. CONCLUSION
This Treaty shall go into effect on the 23th of September, 2018. This Treaty is executed in duplicate, in Korean and English, both versions having the same meaning and intention, and posted on, or linked from, each nations fact book or dispatches on nationstates.net.
See Also: Ratified Treaties Of Volaworand
Signed on the 17th of December, 2018
The Governments of The Tastiest Parts of Beepee and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand, hereinafter referred to as the parties:
NOTING that the world grows ever more divided due to the ongoing threat of reality television;
SEEKING to encourage friendship, commerce and cooperation among our peoples;
BUILDING on our shared participation in the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement;
RECOGNIZING the necessity to establish formal affairs concerning social, political, and economic dimensions of relations between our nations;
HOPING the peaceful cooperation of our states will promote stability and harmony throughout the South Pacific region;
HAVE AGREED as follows:
AGREEMENT
It is henceforth agreed an alliance be established between The Tastiest Parts of Beepee and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand and that there shall be everlasting peace, friendship, commerce, and cooperation between our nations.DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION
Parties to this treaty recognize the exclusive territorial sovereignty of the other and reject any overlapping or competing territorial claims of other nations.
Each party shall establish an embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission in the capital city of the other, shall employ an ambassador to facilitate friendship between nations and maintain consular services for their nationals located in the host nation.
Volaworand will allow an embassy in the capital of Rothera and Beepee shall allow an embassy in the capital of Norfolk Pinewoods.
Host governments are responsible to ensure external security of foreign diplomatic staff in their nation. Each party is allowed to send up to a maximum of 10 armed military or internal security personnel for each consular location.
Shared consular services are allowed with consent of the Host nation.
Beepee recognizes Volaworand's prior agreements outlined in Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Sharing of Consular Services and recognizes British Pitcairn Islands British Falkland Islands S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha as protectorates of Volaworand and allows consular services to be provided by Volaworand to citizens of said nations.
Parties shall, subject to reasonable regulation, provide emergency consular assistance to the citizens of the other Party in any nations where only one party has consular offices.
MOVEMENT OF NATURAL PERSONS
Each party recognizes the Passport or Document of Identity issued by the other nation as a valid and sufficient identification of travelers at all ports of entry.
In all ports, stations and settlements, other than military installations, citizens of each nation may travel and reside; shall have the right to rent or lease ground, rent or purchase buildings and dwellings, may erect dwellings and warehouses, and conduct commerce subject to local laws and the terms of their entry. Neither party will allow a wall, fence, or gate be erected by the host government around said places of residence or commerce, or anything done which may prevent a free egress and ingress to the same.
Citizens of one nation accused and charged of criminal offenses in another nation shall be subject to deportation and be tried under their home nations system of justice. Each nation shall ensure their system of justice be open to the citizens of the other nations, to enable them to recover their just claims against citizens.
Each party agrees to not harbor criminals of other nation and shall, upon written diplomatic request, extradite citizens to the custody of their home nation.
Each party shall set out regulations allowing short-term tourist, business, scientific and academic visitors of the other Party and streamline existing procedures for travelers between their nations.
The parties agree to the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income earned by their citizens in the other nation and shall exchange reporting of income and taxation paid by such citizens of the other party earned in their respective nations.
No part of this agreement shall prevent a party from applying measures to regulate the entry of natural persons of the other party into, or their temporary stay in, its territory, including those measures necessary to protect the integrity of, and to ensure the orderly movement of natural persons across its borders, provided that such measures are not applied in such a manner as to nullify or impair the benefits accruing to the other party under the terms of a specific commitment.
Religious freedoms of travelers shall not be impaired.
Citizens of each nation shall be allowed, subject to reasonable regulation, the peaceful free exercise of their religion in the other nation, and for this purpose shall have the right to erect or maintain suitable places of worship. No injury shall be done to such buildings, nor any insult be offered to the religious worship. Citizens shall not injure any church, temple or shrine, or offer any insult or injury to religious ceremonies, or to the objects of their worship.
The parties shall not do anything that may be calculated to excite religious agitation or animosity, including proselytization. Citizens whose religious practice is disruptive of peace and order may be subject to deportation after diplomatic consultation.
TRADE IN GOODS
Trade Duty Reduction
The parties agree to a maximum import duty of 2% shall be paid on all landed goods, and on all articles of local production that are exported as cargo, that have originated from the nation of the other party. No higher duties shall be paid on such goods imported than are fixed by this agreement, nor shall any higher duties be paid than are levied on the same description of goods if imported in the vessels of any other nation. All goods imported and which have paid the duty fixed by this agreement may be transported into any part of the nation without the payment of any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the imposition of sales taxes or revenue duties which are levied equally on both imports and domestic products.
Nothing in this Agreement shall impact the duty free trade of goods governed by provisions of the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement (SPaRTA).
The importation of environmentally sensitive flora, fauna, and other materials are prohibited and any vessel arriving by space, air, sea, or land faring vessel shall be subject to verification and inspection of goods on board and all such cargo regulated above shall be seized and either returned to the exporting nation at the exporters expense or, if the value is less than the transport costs, destroyed by the local authorities.
Nothing in this agreement shall restrict or inhibit either parties efforts to protect ecosystems by combatting invasive species.
Streamlining Customs Procedures
For prompt customs clearance of goods traded between their nations, each party shall:streamline and simplify regulatory and customs requirements as much as possible,
recognizing that trading using electronic filing and transfer of trade-related information and electronic versions of documents such as bills of lading, invoices, letters of credit and insurance certificates, as an alternative to paper-based methods (hereinafter referred to as paperless trading), will significantly enhance the efficiency of trade through reduction of cost and time, shall co-operate with a view to realizing and promoting paperless trading between them.
make its customs procedures conform, as far as and as promptly as possible, to relevant industry standards and recommended practices accepted by both Parties.
encourage co-operation between their relevant private and public entities engaging in activities related to paperless trading. Such co-operation may include the setting up and operation by such entities of facilities to provide efficient and secured flow of electronic trade-related information and electronic versions of relevant documents between enterprises of the parties.
Testing and Certification Standards
The parties recognize that differences in testing and certification standards especially in electrical, electronic, telecom and pharmaceutical products, can be a non-tariff barrier. Both parties agree to accord mutual recognition of test results and certification by accredited conformity assessment bodies in either country, so that exporters can have their products tested and certified by assessment bodies in their countries without having to duplicate the procedure in the importing country.Each party shall ensure, through appropriate means such as audits, inspections or monitoring, that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfil the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party. When applying the criteria for designation of the conformity assessment bodies, Designating Authorities of a party should take into account the bodies understanding of and experience relevant to the requirements set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party.
Each party may request the other party, by indicating in writing a reasoned doubt on whether a registered conformity assessment body complies with the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions, to conduct verification of the conformity assessment body in accordance with the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of that other party.
Each party may, upon request, participate as an observer in the verification of conformity assessment bodies conducted by the Designating Authorities of the other party, with the prior consent of such conformity assessment bodies, in order to maintain a continuing understanding of that other partys procedures for verification.
The parties shall exchange information on methods, including accreditation systems, used to designate the conformity assessment bodies and to ensure that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfill the criteria for designation.
Each party should encourage its registered conformity assessment bodies to co-operate and consult with the conformity assessment bodies of the other party.
The parties agree to share all relevant information with each other in the event of product Health and Safety advisories and recalls.
Government-to-Government Military trade
Party governments may purchase from the other governments ships-of-war, merchant ships, submarine vessels, whale ships, cannon, munitions of war, military drones, space satellites, craft and arms of all kinds, and any other things they may require. Nations shall have the right to employ, in the other nation, scientific, naval and military personnel, technicians and artisans of all kind, and mariners to enter into its service, for the purpose of facilitating this government-to-government trade. The said person's employed may not trade arms or military materials to the private sector or parties outside this Treaty. Each party shall disclose to the host nation government the names, nature of employment and addresses of all government contracted personnel operating in the host nation.
Each party shall have the right to expel or deport individual government contracted personnel of the other.
Volaworand's status as a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory requires it shall not receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Beepee agrees not to trade prohibited material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices with any citizen or agent of Volaworand.
Parties to the treaty are entitled to participate in the fullest possible exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to, the further development of the applications of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
NATIONAL ANIMAL EXCHANGE
Each party shall offer, an exchange of a breeding pair of their national animals without cost for the purpose of zoological exhibition in the other nation, or other purposes as mutually agreed. Each party consents to supply directly or indirectly an appropriate source of animal feed at cost for the duration of the exchange.
Each party shall be responsible for the health of animals in their charge. In the event of an animal's death, the providing nation shall be compensated at no lower than the market rates in effect at the time and a replacement national animal provided in a reasonable timeframe.
In the event a party changes its national animal, they agree to forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party and supply a breeding pair of the new animal within 30 days.
In the event a nation withdraws unilaterally from this agreement, the party of the withdrawing nation shall forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party.
SCIENTIFIC, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COOPERATION
Exchanges of scientific and academic personnel between schools, universities, research stations, and other institutions such are encouraged and both parties will expedite the local permitting and visa process for persons involved in such exchanges. Results of joint non-military research projects are to be published jointly by the educational or research institutions of nations participating in such exchanges.
The parties agree not to trade material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
The parties are entitled to participate in the fullest possible study and exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to:
the further development of the applications of atomic or nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
the further development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of bacteriology (biology) for prevention of disease and the use of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes.
the development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of chemistry for improvement of agriculture and the use of chemical agents for peaceful purposes.
Licensing or Certification of Professional Certifications
The parties shall allow recognition of the credentials issued of the other's primary diploma and higher education degree programs within their domestic education programs.
A party may recognize the education or experience obtained, requirements met, or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the other Party for the purposes of the fulfillment, in whole or in part, of its standards or criteria for the authorization, licensing or certification of natural persons with professional qualifications.
Recognition referred to the above paragraph, which may be achieved through harmonization or otherwise, may be based upon an agreement or arrangement between the Parties or may be accorded unilaterally.
Where a party recognizes, by agreement or arrangement or unilaterally, the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of a outside nation to this agreement, the party shall accord to the other party an adequate opportunity to demonstrate that the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the outside nation should also be recognized.
NON AGRESSION AND MUTAL AID
Both nations henceforth shall maintain a non-aggressive military stance towards the other and not provide aid or comfort to the declared enemies of the other nation.
Both parties agree to share intelligence information about the threats or hostile activities of any nation or group that threatens the peace and security of the other nation.
Both signatories henceforth shall also send international aid including (but not limited to) food, water, or construction equipment after massive or heavy destruction and/or casualties has been inflicted on the other country. If requested, both signatories shall provide shelter and protection to each other's populations displaced by war, military conflict or declared natural disaster.
DISPUTES BETWEEN PARTIES
Disputes between the parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement should, if possible, be settled through the diplomatic channel.
If a dispute between the parties cannot thus be settled, upon the request of either party, the dispute shall be submitted to an arbitral tribunal.
Such an arbitral tribunal shall be constituted for each individual case in the following way. Within one month of the receipt of the request for arbitration, each party shall appoint one member of the tribunal. Those two members shall then select a national of a third nation who, on approval by the two parties, shall be appointed Chair of the tribunal. The Chair shall be appointed within one month from the date of appointment of the initial two members.
The arbitral tribunal shall reach its decision by a majority of votes. Such decision shall be binding on both parties. Each party shall bear the cost of its own member of the tribunal and of its representation in the arbitral proceedings; the cost of the Chairman and the remaining costs shall be borne in equal parts by the parties. The tribunal may, however, in its decision direct that a higher proportion of costs shall be borne by one of the two parties, and this award shall be binding on both parties. The tribunal shall determine its own procedure.
FINAL TERMS
At the desire of either party, and on fourteen days notice given in writing, this Treaty, together with any regulations of trade hereunto annexed, or those that may be hereafter introduced, shall be subject to revision by Commissioners appointed on both sides for this purpose, who will be empowered to decide and insert therein, such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable and unanimously agreeable to both parties. Agreements become effective when both nations agree in writing and then update their fact book entries or dispatches. If agreement has not been reached at the end of fourteen days the original terms remain in force.
A nation may withdraw from this treaty on one months notice given in writing. Citizens who are living or traveling in the other parties nation during this period shall be allowed to depart without hindrance. The Treaty will remain in force during the notice period.
If a Nation departs the South Pacific region or ceases to exist on nationstates.net it will be deemed to have withdrawn from this agreement. Any successor nation will not have an automatic right to resume this Treaty.
This Treaty shall go into effect on the 18th of December 2018. This Treaty is executed in duplicate, each copy being written in English, both versions having the same meaning and intention, and posted on each nations fact book or dispatches on nationstates.net.
See Also: Ratified Treaties Of Volaworand
Signed on the 17th of December, 2018
The Governments of Kerlodia and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand, hereinafter referred to as the parties:
NOTING that the world grows ever more divided due to the ongoing threat of reality television;
SEEKING to encourage friendship, commerce and cooperation among our peoples;
BUILDING on our shared participation in the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement;
RECOGNIZING the necessity to establish formal affairs concerning social, political, and economic dimensions of relations between our nations;
HOPING the peaceful cooperation of our states will promote stability and harmony throughout the South Pacific region;
HAVE AGREED as follows:
AGREEMENT
It is henceforth agreed an alliance be established between Kerlodia and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand and that there shall be everlasting peace, friendship, commerce, and cooperation between our nations.DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION
Parties to this treaty recognize the exclusive territorial sovereignty of the other and reject any overlapping or competing territorial claims of other nations.
Each party shall establish an embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission in the capital city of the other, shall employ an ambassador to facilitate friendship between nations and maintain consular services for their nationals located in the host nation.
Volaworand will allow an embassy in the capital of Rothera and Kerlodia shall allow an embassy in the capital of Citaiti Dei Kerlodia.
Host governments are responsible to ensure external security of foreign diplomatic staff in their nation. Each party is allowed to send up to a maximum of 10 armed military or internal security personnel for each consular location.
Shared consular services are allowed with consent of the Host nation.
Kerlodia recognizes Volaworand's prior agreements outlined in Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Sharing of Consular Services and recognizes British Pitcairn Islands British Falkland Islands S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha as protectorates of Volaworand and allows consular services to be provided by Volaworand to citizens of said nations.
Parties shall, subject to reasonable regulation, provide emergency consular assistance to the citizens of the other Party in any nations where only one party has consular offices.
MOVEMENT OF NATURAL PERSONS
Each party recognizes the Passport or Document of Identity issued by the other nation as a valid and sufficient identification of travelers at all ports of entry.
In all ports, stations and settlements, other than military installations, citizens of each nation may travel and reside; shall have the right to rent or lease ground, rent or purchase buildings and dwellings, may erect dwellings and warehouses, and conduct commerce subject to local laws and the terms of their entry. Neither party will allow a wall, fence, or gate be erected by the host government around said places of residence or commerce, or anything done which may prevent a free egress and ingress to the same.
Citizens of one nation accused and charged of criminal offenses in another nation shall be subject to deportation and be tried under their home nations system of justice. Each nation shall ensure their system of justice be open to the citizens of the other nations, to enable them to recover their just claims against citizens.
Each party agrees to not harbor criminals of other nation and shall, upon written diplomatic request, extradite citizens to the custody of their home nation.
Each party shall set out regulations allowing short-term tourist, business, scientific and academic visitors of the other Party and streamline existing procedures for travelers between their nations.
The parties agree to the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income earned by their citizens in the other nation and shall exchange reporting of income and taxation paid by such citizens of the other party earned in their respective nations.
No part of this agreement shall prevent a party from applying measures to regulate the entry of natural persons of the other party into, or their temporary stay in, its territory, including those measures necessary to protect the integrity of, and to ensure the orderly movement of natural persons across its borders, provided that such measures are not applied in such a manner as to nullify or impair the benefits accruing to the other party under the terms of a specific commitment.
Religious freedoms of travelers shall not be impaired.
Citizens of each nation shall be allowed, subject to reasonable regulation, the peaceful free exercise of their religion in the other nation, and for this purpose shall have the right to erect or maintain suitable places of worship. No injury shall be done to such buildings, nor any insult be offered to the religious worship. Citizens shall not injure any church, temple or shrine, or offer any insult or injury to religious ceremonies, or to the objects of their worship.
The parties shall not do anything that may be calculated to excite religious agitation or animosity, including proselytization. Citizens whose religious practice is disruptive of peace and order may be subject to deportation after diplomatic consultation.
TRADE IN GOODS
Trade Duty Reduction
The parties agree to a maximum import duty of 2% shall be paid on all landed goods, and on all articles of local production that are exported as cargo, that have originated from the nation of the other party. No higher duties shall be paid on such goods imported than are fixed by this agreement, nor shall any higher duties be paid than are levied on the same description of goods if imported in the vessels of any other nation. All goods imported and which have paid the duty fixed by this agreement may be transported into any part of the nation without the payment of any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the imposition of sales taxes or revenue duties which are levied equally on both imports and domestic products.
Nothing in this Agreement shall impact the duty free trade of goods governed by provisions of the South Pacific Regional Trade Agreement (SPaRTA).
The importation of environmentally sensitive flora, fauna, and other materials are prohibited and any vessel arriving by space, air, sea, or land faring vessel shall be subject to verification and inspection of goods on board and all such cargo regulated above shall be seized and either returned to the exporting nation at the exporters expense or, if the value is less than the transport costs, destroyed by the local authorities.
Nothing in this agreement shall restrict or inhibit either parties efforts to protect ecosystems by combatting invasive species.
Streamlining Customs Procedures
For prompt customs clearance of goods traded between their nations, each party shall:streamline and simplify regulatory and customs requirements as much as possible,
recognizing that trading using electronic filing and transfer of trade-related information and electronic versions of documents such as bills of lading, invoices, letters of credit and insurance certificates, as an alternative to paper-based methods (hereinafter referred to as paperless trading), will significantly enhance the efficiency of trade through reduction of cost and time, shall co-operate with a view to realizing and promoting paperless trading between them.
make its customs procedures conform, as far as and as promptly as possible, to relevant industry standards and recommended practices accepted by both Parties.
encourage co-operation between their relevant private and public entities engaging in activities related to paperless trading. Such co-operation may include the setting up and operation by such entities of facilities to provide efficient and secured flow of electronic trade-related information and electronic versions of relevant documents between enterprises of the parties.
Testing and Certification Standards
The parties recognize that differences in testing and certification standards especially in electrical, electronic, telecom and pharmaceutical products, can be a non-tariff barrier. Both parties agree to accord mutual recognition of test results and certification by accredited conformity assessment bodies in either country, so that exporters can have their products tested and certified by assessment bodies in their countries without having to duplicate the procedure in the importing country.Each party shall ensure, through appropriate means such as audits, inspections or monitoring, that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfil the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party. When applying the criteria for designation of the conformity assessment bodies, Designating Authorities of a party should take into account the bodies understanding of and experience relevant to the requirements set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party.
Each party may request the other party, by indicating in writing a reasoned doubt on whether a registered conformity assessment body complies with the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions, to conduct verification of the conformity assessment body in accordance with the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of that other party.
Each party may, upon request, participate as an observer in the verification of conformity assessment bodies conducted by the Designating Authorities of the other party, with the prior consent of such conformity assessment bodies, in order to maintain a continuing understanding of that other partys procedures for verification.
The parties shall exchange information on methods, including accreditation systems, used to designate the conformity assessment bodies and to ensure that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfill the criteria for designation.
Each party should encourage its registered conformity assessment bodies to co-operate and consult with the conformity assessment bodies of the other party.
The parties agree to share all relevant information with each other in the event of product Health and Safety advisories and recalls.
Government-to-Government Military trade
Party governments may purchase from the other governments ships-of-war, merchant ships, submarine vessels, whale ships, cannon, munitions of war, military drones, space satellites, craft and arms of all kinds, and any other things they may require. Nations shall have the right to employ, in the other nation, scientific, naval and military personnel, technicians and artisans of all kind, and mariners to enter into its service, for the purpose of facilitating this government-to-government trade. The said person's employed may not trade arms or military materials to the private sector or parties outside this Treaty. Each party shall disclose to the host nation government the names, nature of employment and addresses of all government contracted personnel operating in the host nation.
Each party shall have the right to expel or deport individual government contracted personnel of the other.
Volaworand's status as a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory requires it shall not receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Kerlodia agrees not to trade prohibited material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices with any citizen or agent of Volaworand.
Parties to the treaty are entitled to participate in the fullest possible exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to, the further development of the applications of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
NATIONAL ANIMAL EXCHANGE
Each party shall offer, an exchange of a breeding pair of their national animals without cost for the purpose of zoological exhibition in the other nation, or other purposes as mutually agreed. Each party consents to supply directly or indirectly an appropriate source of animal feed at cost for the duration of the exchange.
Each party shall be responsible for the health of animals in their charge. In the event of an animal's death, the providing nation shall be compensated at no lower than the market rates in effect at the time and a replacement national animal provided in a reasonable timeframe.
In the event a party changes its national animal, they agree to forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party and supply a breeding pair of the new animal within 30 days.
In the event a nation withdraws unilaterally from this agreement, the party of the withdrawing nation shall forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party.
SCIENTIFIC, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COOPERATION
Exchanges of scientific and academic personnel between schools, universities, research stations, and other institutions such are encouraged and both parties will expedite the local permitting and visa process for persons involved in such exchanges. Results of joint non-military research projects are to be published jointly by the educational or research institutions of nations participating in such exchanges.
The parties agree not to trade material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
The parties are entitled to participate in the fullest possible study and exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to:
the further development of the applications of atomic or nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
the further development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of bacteriology (biology) for prevention of disease and the use of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes.
the development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of chemistry for improvement of agriculture and the use of chemical agents for peaceful purposes.
Licensing or Certification of Professional Certifications
The parties shall allow recognition of the credentials issued of the other's primary diploma and higher education degree programs within their domestic education programs.
A party may recognize the education or experience obtained, requirements met, or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the other Party for the purposes of the fulfillment, in whole or in part, of its standards or criteria for the authorization, licensing or certification of natural persons with professional qualifications.
Recognition referred to the above paragraph, which may be achieved through harmonization or otherwise, may be based upon an agreement or arrangement between the Parties or may be accorded unilaterally.
Where a party recognizes, by agreement or arrangement or unilaterally, the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of a outside nation to this agreement, the party shall accord to the other party an adequate opportunity to demonstrate that the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the outside nation should also be recognized.
NON AGRESSION AND MUTAL AID
Both nations henceforth shall maintain a non-aggressive military stance towards the other and not provide aid or comfort to the declared enemies of the other nation.
Both parties agree to share intelligence information about the threats or hostile activities of any nation or group that threatens the peace and security of the other nation.
Both signatories henceforth shall also send international aid including (but not limited to) food, water, or construction equipment after massive or heavy destruction and/or casualties has been inflicted on the other country. If requested, both signatories shall provide shelter and protection to each other's populations displaced by war, military conflict or declared natural disaster.
DISPUTES BETWEEN PARTIES
Disputes between the parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement should, if possible, be settled through the diplomatic channel.
If a dispute between the parties cannot thus be settled, upon the request of either party, the dispute shall be submitted to an arbitral tribunal.
Such an arbitral tribunal shall be constituted for each individual case in the following way. Within one month of the receipt of the request for arbitration, each party shall appoint one member of the tribunal. Those two members shall then select a national of a third nation who, on approval by the two parties, shall be appointed Chair of the tribunal. The Chair shall be appointed within one month from the date of appointment of the initial two members.
The arbitral tribunal shall reach its decision by a majority of votes. Such decision shall be binding on both parties. Each party shall bear the cost of its own member of the tribunal and of its representation in the arbitral proceedings; the cost of the Chairman and the remaining costs shall be borne in equal parts by the parties. The tribunal may, however, in its decision direct that a higher proportion of costs shall be borne by one of the two parties, and this award shall be binding on both parties. The tribunal shall determine its own procedure.
FINAL TERMS
At the desire of either party, and on fourteen days notice given in writing, this Treaty, together with any regulations of trade hereunto annexed, or those that may be hereafter introduced, shall be subject to revision by Commissioners appointed on both sides for this purpose, who will be empowered to decide and insert therein, such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable and unanimously agreeable to both parties. Agreements become effective when both nations agree in writing and then update their fact book entries or dispatches. If agreement has not been reached at the end of fourteen days the original terms remain in force.
A nation may withdraw from this treaty on one months notice given in writing. Citizens who are living or traveling in the other parties nation during this period shall be allowed to depart without hindrance. The Treaty will remain in force during the notice period.
If a Nation departs the South Pacific region or ceases to exist on nationstates.net it will be deemed to have withdrawn from this areement. Any successor nation will not have an automatic right to resume this Treaty.
This Treaty shall go into effect on the 18th of December 2018. This Treaty is executed in duplicate, each copy being written in English, both versions having the same meaning and intention, and posted on each nations fact book or dispatches on nationstates.net.
See Also: Ratified Treaties Of Volaworand
Signed on the 4th of January, 2019
The Governments of Mryasia and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand, hereinafter referred to as the parties:
NOTING that ongoing threats to regional peace posed by cupcake wars;
RECOGNIZING the necessity to establish formal affairs concerning social, political, and economic dimensions of relations between our nations;
SEEKING to encourage friendship, commerce and cooperation among our peoples;
HOPING the peaceful cooperation of our states will promote stability and harmony throughout the South Pacific region;
HAVE AGREED as follows:
AGREEMENT
It is henceforth agreed relations be established between Mryasia and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand and that there shall be everlasting peace, friendship, commerce, and cooperation between our nations.DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION
Parties to this treaty recognize the exclusive territorial sovereignty of the other and reject any overlapping or competing territorial claims of other nations.
Each party shall establish an embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission in the capital city of the other, shall employ an ambassador to facilitate friendship between nations and maintain consular services for their nationals located in the host nation.
Volaworand will allow an embassy in the capital of Rothera and Mryasia shall allow an embassy in the capital of Blumfunm.
Host governments are responsible to ensure external security of foreign diplomatic staff in their nation. Each party is allowed to send up to a maximum of 10 armed military or internal security personnel for each consular location.
Shared consular services are allowed with consent of the Host nation.
Mryasia recognizes Volaworand's prior agreements outlined in Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Sharing of Consular Services and recognizes British Pitcairn Islands British Falkland Islands S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha as protectorates of Volaworand and allows consular services to be provided by Volaworand to citizens of said nations.
Parties shall, subject to reasonable regulation, provide emergency consular assistance to the citizens of the other Party in any nations where only one party has consular offices.
MOVEMENT OF NATURAL PERSONS
Each party recognizes the Passport or Document of Identity issued by the other nation as a valid and sufficient identification of travelers at all ports of entry.
In all ports, stations and settlements, other than military installations, citizens of each nation may travel and reside; shall have the right to rent or lease ground, rent or purchase buildings and dwellings, may erect dwellings and warehouses, and conduct commerce subject to local laws and the terms of their entry. Neither party will allow a wall, fence, or gate be erected by the host government around said places of residence or commerce, or anything done which may prevent a free egress and ingress to the same.
Citizens of one nation accused and charged of criminal offenses in another nation shall be subject to deportation and be tried under their home nations system of justice. Each nation shall ensure their system of justice be open to the citizens of the other nations, to enable them to recover their just claims against citizens.
Each party agrees to not harbor criminals of other nation and shall, upon written diplomatic request, extradite citizens to the custody of their home nation.
Each party shall set out regulations allowing short-term tourist, business, scientific and academic visitors of the other Party and streamline existing procedures for travelers between their nations.
The parties agree to the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income earned by their citizens in the other nation and shall exchange reporting of income and taxation paid by such citizens of the other party earned in their respective nations.
No part of this agreement shall prevent a party from applying measures to regulate the entry of natural persons of the other party into, or their temporary stay in, its territory, including those measures necessary to protect the integrity of, and to ensure the orderly movement of natural persons across its borders, provided that such measures are not applied in such a manner as to nullify or impair the benefits accruing to the other party under the terms of a specific commitment.
Religious freedoms of travelers shall not be impaired.
Citizens of each nation shall be allowed, subject to reasonable regulation, the peaceful free exercise of their religion in the other nation, and for this purpose shall have the right to erect or maintain suitable places of worship. No injury shall be done to such buildings, nor any insult be offered to the religious worship. Citizens shall not injure any church, temple or shrine, or offer any insult or injury to religious ceremonies, or to the objects of their worship.
The parties shall not do anything that may be calculated to excite religious agitation or animosity, including proselytization. Citizens whose religious practice is disruptive of peace and order may be subject to deportation after diplomatic consultation.
TRADE IN GOODS
Trade Duty Reduction
The parties agree to a maximum import duty of 5% shall be paid on all landed goods, and on all articles of local production that are exported as cargo, that have originated from the nation of the other party. No higher duties shall be paid on such goods imported than are fixed by this agreement, nor shall any higher duties be paid than are levied on the same description of goods if imported in the vessels of any other nation. All goods imported and which have paid the duty fixed by this agreement may be transported into any part of the nation without the payment of any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the imposition of sales taxes or revenue duties which are levied equally on both imports and domestic products.
The importation of environmentally sensitive flora, fauna, and other materials are prohibited and any vessel arriving by space, air, sea, or land faring vessel shall be subject to verification and inspection of goods on board and all such cargo regulated above shall be seized and either returned to the exporting nation at the exporters expense or, if the value is less than the transport costs, destroyed by the local authorities.
Nothing in this agreement shall restrict or inhibit either parties efforts to protect ecosystems by combatting invasive species.
Streamlining Customs Procedures
For prompt customs clearance of goods traded between their nations, each party shall:streamline and simplify regulatory and customs requirements as much as possible,
recognizing that trading using electronic filing and transfer of trade-related information and electronic versions of documents such as bills of lading, invoices, letters of credit and insurance certificates, as an alternative to paper-based methods (hereinafter referred to as paperless trading), will significantly enhance the efficiency of trade through reduction of cost and time, shall co-operate with a view to realizing and promoting paperless trading between them.
make its customs procedures conform, as far as and as promptly as possible, to relevant industry standards and recommended practices accepted by both Parties.
encourage co-operation between their relevant private and public entities engaging in activities related to paperless trading. Such co-operation may include the setting up and operation by such entities of facilities to provide efficient and secured flow of electronic trade-related information and electronic versions of relevant documents between enterprises of the parties.
Testing and Certification Standards
The parties recognize that differences in testing and certification standards especially in electrical, electronic, telecom and pharmaceutical products, can be a non-tariff barrier. Both parties agree to accord mutual recognition of test results and certification by accredited conformity assessment bodies in either country, so that exporters can have their products tested and certified by assessment bodies in their countries without having to duplicate the procedure in the importing country.Each party shall ensure, through appropriate means such as audits, inspections or monitoring, that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfil the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party. When applying the criteria for designation of the conformity assessment bodies, Designating Authorities of a party should take into account the bodies understanding of and experience relevant to the requirements set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party.
Each party may request the other party, by indicating in writing a reasoned doubt on whether a registered conformity assessment body complies with the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions, to conduct verification of the conformity assessment body in accordance with the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of that other party.
Each party may, upon request, participate as an observer in the verification of conformity assessment bodies conducted by the Designating Authorities of the other party, with the prior consent of such conformity assessment bodies, in order to maintain a continuing understanding of that other partys procedures for verification.
The parties shall exchange information on methods, including accreditation systems, used to designate the conformity assessment bodies and to ensure that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfill the criteria for designation.
Each party should encourage its registered conformity assessment bodies to co-operate and consult with the conformity assessment bodies of the other party.
The parties agree to share all relevant information with each other in the event of product Health and Safety advisories and recalls.
Government-to-Government Military trade
Party governments may purchase from the other governments ships-of-war, merchant ships, submarine vessels, whale ships, cannon, munitions of war, military drones, space satellites, craft and arms of all kinds, and any other things they may require. Nations shall have the right to employ, in the other nation, scientific, naval and military personnel, technicians and artisans of all kind, and mariners to enter into its service, for the purpose of facilitating this government-to-government trade. The said person's employed may not trade arms or military materials to the private sector or parties outside this Treaty. Each party shall disclose to the host nation government the names, nature of employment and addresses of all government contracted personnel operating in the host nation.
Each party shall have the right to expel or deport individual government contracted personnel of the other.
Volaworand's status as a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory requires it shall not receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Mryasia agrees not to trade prohibited material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices with any citizen or agent of Volaworand.
Parties to the treaty are entitled to participate in the fullest possible exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to, the further development of the applications of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
NATIONAL ANIMAL EXCHANGE
Each party shall offer, an exchange of a breeding pair of their national animals without cost for the purpose of zoological exhibition in the other nation, or other purposes as mutually agreed. Each party consents to supply directly or indirectly an appropriate source of animal feed at cost for the duration of the exchange.
Each party shall be responsible for the health of animals in their charge. In the event of an animal's death, the providing nation shall be compensated at no lower than the market rates in effect at the time and a replacement national animal provided in a reasonable timeframe.
In the event a party changes its national animal, they agree to forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party and supply a breeding pair of the new animal within 30 days.
In the event a nation withdraws unilaterally from this agreement, the party of the withdrawing nation shall forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party.
SCIENTIFIC, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COOPERATION
Exchanges of scientific and academic personnel between schools, universities, research stations, and other institutions such are encouraged and both parties will expedite the local permitting and visa process for persons involved in such exchanges. Results of joint non-military research projects are to be published jointly by the educational or research institutions of nations participating in such exchanges.
The parties agree not to trade material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
The parties are entitled to participate in the fullest possible study and exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to:
the further development of the applications of atomic or nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
the further development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of bacteriology (biology) for prevention of disease and the use of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes.
the development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of chemistry for improvement of agriculture and the use of chemical agents for peaceful purposes.
Licensing or Certification of Professional Certifications
The parties shall allow recognition of the credentials issued of the other's primary diploma and higher education degree programs within their domestic education programs.
A party may recognize the education or experience obtained, requirements met, or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the other Party for the purposes of the fulfillment, in whole or in part, of its standards or criteria for the authorization, licensing or certification of natural persons with professional qualifications.
Recognition referred to the above paragraph, which may be achieved through harmonization or otherwise, may be based upon an agreement or arrangement between the Parties or may be accorded unilaterally.
Where a party recognizes, by agreement or arrangement or unilaterally, the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of a outside nation to this agreement, the party shall accord to the other party an adequate opportunity to demonstrate that the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the outside nation should also be recognized.
NON AGRESSION AND MUTAL AID
Both nations henceforth shall maintain a non-aggressive military stance towards the other and not provide aid or comfort to the declared enemies of the other nation.
Both parties agree to share intelligence information about the threats or hostile activities of any nation or group that threatens the peace and security of the other nation.
Both signatories henceforth shall also send international aid including (but not limited to) food, water, or construction equipment after massive or heavy destruction and/or casualties has been inflicted on the other country. If requested, both signatories shall provide shelter and protection to each other's populations displaced by war, military conflict or declared natural disaster.
DISPUTES BETWEEN PARTIES
Disputes between the parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement should, if possible, be settled through the diplomatic channel.
If a dispute between the parties cannot thus be settled, upon the request of either party, the dispute shall be submitted to an arbitral tribunal.
Such an arbitral tribunal shall be constituted for each individual case in the following way. Within one month of the receipt of the request for arbitration, each party shall appoint one member of the tribunal. Those two members shall then select a national of a third nation who, on approval by the two parties, shall be appointed Chair of the tribunal. The Chair shall be appointed within one month from the date of appointment of the initial two members.
The arbitral tribunal shall reach its decision by a majority of votes. Such decision shall be binding on both parties. Each party shall bear the cost of its own member of the tribunal and of its representation in the arbitral proceedings; the expenses of the Chair and the remaining costs shall be borne in equal parts by the parties. The tribunal may, however, in its decision direct that a higher proportion of costs shall be borne by one of the two parties, and this award shall be binding on both parties. The tribunal shall determine its own procedure.
FINAL TERMS
At the desire of either party, and on fourteen days notice given in writing, this Treaty, together with any regulations of trade hereunto annexed, or those that may be hereafter introduced, shall be subject to revision by Commissioners appointed on both sides for this purpose, who will be empowered to decide and insert therein, such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable and unanimously agreeable to both parties. Agreements become effective when both nations agree in writing and then update their fact book entries or dispatches. If agreement has not been reached at the end of fourteen days the original terms remain in force.
A nation may withdraw from this treaty on one months notice given in writing. Citizens who are living or traveling in the other parties nation during this period shall be allowed to depart without hindrance. The Treaty will remain in force during the notice period.
If a nation departs the South Pacific region or ceases to exist on nationstates.net it will be deemed to have withdrawn from this agreement. Any successor nation will not have an automatic right to resume this Treaty.
This Treaty shall go into effect on the 5th of January 2019. This Treaty is executed in duplicate, each copy being written in English, both versions having the same meaning and intention, and posted on each nations fact book or dispatches on nationstates.net.
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Signed in Dali on the 11th of January, 2019
The Governments of P r of china and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand, hereinafter referred to as the parties:
BUILDING on our existing trade relationships;
SEEKING to encourage friendship, commerce and cooperation among our peoples;
RECOGNIZING the necessity to establish formal affairs concerning social, political, and economic dimensions of relations between our nations;
COGNIZANT of the shortage of floof in The South Pacific region and the challenges this presents to global order;
HOPING the peaceful cooperation of our states will promote stability and harmony throughout the South Pacific region;
HAVE AGREED as follows:
AGREEMENT
It is henceforth agreed a treaty be established between P r of china and The Penguinite Kleptocracy of Volaworand and that there shall be everlasting peace, friendship, commerce, and cooperation between our nations.DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION
Parties to this treaty recognize the exclusive territorial sovereignty of the other and reject any overlapping or competing territorial claims of other nations.
Each party shall establish an embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission in the capital city of the other, shall employ an ambassador to facilitate friendship between nations and maintain consular services for their nationals located in the host nation.
Volaworand will allow an embassy in the capital of Rothera and P R of China shall allow an embassy in the capital of Beijing.
Host governments are responsible to ensure external security of foreign diplomatic staff in their nation. Each party is allowed to send up to a maximum of 10 armed military or internal security personnel for each consular location.
Shared consular services are allowed with consent of the Host nation.
P R of China recognizes Volaworand's prior agreements outlined in Memorandum of Understanding concerning the Sharing of Consular Services and recognizes British Pitcairn Islands British Falkland Islands S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha as protectorates of Volaworand and allows consular services to be provided by Volaworand to citizens of said nations.
Parties shall, subject to reasonable regulation, provide emergency consular assistance to the citizens of the other Party in any nations where only one party has consular offices.
MOVEMENT OF NATURAL PERSONS
Each party recognizes the Passport or Document of Identity issued by the other nation as a valid and sufficient identification of travelers at all ports of entry.
In all ports, stations and settlements, other than military installations, citizens of each nation may travel and reside; shall have the right to rent or lease ground, rent or purchase buildings and dwellings, may erect dwellings and warehouses, and conduct commerce subject to local laws and the terms of their entry. Neither party will allow a wall, fence, or gate be erected by the host government around said places of residence or commerce, or anything done which may prevent a free egress and ingress to the same.
Citizens of one nation accused and charged of criminal offenses in another nation shall be subject to deportation and be tried under their home nations system of justice. Each nation shall ensure their system of justice be open to the citizens of the other nations, to enable them to recover their just claims against citizens.
Each party agrees to not harbor criminals of other nation and shall, upon written diplomatic request, extradite citizens to the custody of their home nation.
Each party shall set out regulations allowing short-term tourist, business, scientific and academic visitors of the other Party and streamline existing procedures for travelers between their nations.
The parties agree to the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income earned by their citizens in the other nation and shall exchange reporting of income and taxation paid by such citizens of the other party earned in their respective nations.
No part of this agreement shall prevent a party from applying measures to regulate the entry of natural persons of the other party into, or their temporary stay in, its territory, including those measures necessary to protect the integrity of, and to ensure the orderly movement of natural persons across its borders, provided that such measures are not applied in such a manner as to nullify or impair the benefits accruing to the other party under the terms of a specific commitment.
Religious freedoms of travelers shall not be impaired.
Citizens of each nation shall be allowed, subject to reasonable regulation, the peaceful free exercise of their religion in the other nation, and for this purpose shall have the right to erect or maintain suitable places of worship. No injury shall be done to such buildings, nor any insult be offered to the religious worship. Citizens shall not injure any church, temple or shrine, or offer any insult or injury to religious ceremonies, or to the objects of their worship.
The parties shall not do anything that may be calculated to excite religious agitation or animosity, including proselytization. Citizens whose religious practice is disruptive of peace and order may be subject to deportation after diplomatic consultation.
TRADE IN GOODS
Trade Duty Reduction
The parties agree to a maximum import duty of 5% shall be paid on all landed goods, and on all articles of local production that are exported as cargo, that have originated from the nation of the other party. No higher duties shall be paid on such goods imported than are fixed by this agreement, nor shall any higher duties be paid than are levied on the same description of goods if imported in the vessels of any other nation. All goods imported and which have paid the duty fixed by this agreement may be transported into any part of the nation without the payment of any additional tax, excise, or transit duty whatever.Nothing in this treaty shall preclude the imposition of sales taxes or revenue duties which are levied equally on both imports and domestic products.
The importation of environmentally sensitive flora, fauna, and other materials are prohibited and any vessel arriving by space, air, sea, or land faring vessel shall be subject to verification and inspection of goods on board and all such cargo regulated above shall be seized and either returned to the exporting nation at the exporters expense or, if the value is less than the transport costs, destroyed by the local authorities.
Nothing in this treaty shall restrict or inhibit either parties efforts to protect ecosystems by combatting invasive species.
Streamlining Customs Procedures
For prompt customs clearance of goods traded between their nations, each party shall:streamline and simplify regulatory and customs requirements as much as possible,
recognizing that trading using electronic filing and transfer of trade-related information and electronic versions of documents such as bills of lading, invoices, letters of credit and insurance certificates, as an alternative to paper-based methods (hereinafter referred to as paperless trading), will significantly enhance the efficiency of trade through reduction of cost and time, shall co-operate with a view to realizing and promoting paperless trading between them.
make its customs procedures conform, as far as and as promptly as possible, to relevant industry standards and recommended practices accepted by both Parties.
encourage co-operation between their relevant private and public entities engaging in activities related to paperless trading. Such co-operation may include the setting up and operation by such entities of facilities to provide efficient and secured flow of electronic trade-related information and electronic versions of relevant documents between enterprises of the parties.
Testing and Certification Standards
The parties recognize that differences in testing and certification standards especially in electrical, electronic, telecom and pharmaceutical products, can be a non-tariff barrier. Both parties agree to accord mutual recognition of test results and certification by accredited conformity assessment bodies in either country, so that exporters can have their products tested and certified by assessment bodies in their countries without having to duplicate the procedure in the importing country.Each party shall ensure, through appropriate means such as audits, inspections or monitoring, that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfil the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party. When applying the criteria for designation of the conformity assessment bodies, Designating Authorities of a party should take into account the bodies understanding of and experience relevant to the requirements set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the other party.
Each party may request the other party, by indicating in writing a reasoned doubt on whether a registered conformity assessment body complies with the criteria for designation set out in the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions, to conduct verification of the conformity assessment body in accordance with the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of that other party.
Each party may, upon request, participate as an observer in the verification of conformity assessment bodies conducted by the Designating Authorities of the other party, with the prior consent of such conformity assessment bodies, in order to maintain a continuing understanding of that other partys procedures for verification.
The parties shall exchange information on methods, including accreditation systems, used to designate the conformity assessment bodies and to ensure that the registered conformity assessment bodies fulfill the criteria for designation.
Each party should encourage its registered conformity assessment bodies to co-operate and consult with the conformity assessment bodies of the other party.
The parties agree to share all relevant information with each other in the event of product Health and Safety advisories and recalls.
Government-to-Government Military trade
Party governments may purchase from the other governments ships-of-war, merchant ships, submarine vessels, whale ships, cannon, munitions of war, military drones, space satellites, craft and arms of all kinds, and any other things they may require. Nations shall have the right to employ, in the other nation, scientific, naval and military personnel, technicians and artisans of all kind, and mariners to enter into its service, for the purpose of facilitating this government-to-government trade. The said person's employed may not trade arms or military materials to the private sector or parties outside this Treaty. Each party shall disclose to the host nation government the names, nature of employment and addresses of all government contracted personnel operating in the host nation.
Each party shall have the right to expel or deport individual government contracted personnel of the other.
Volaworand's status as a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signatory requires it shall not receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. P R of China agrees not to trade prohibited material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices with any citizen or agent of Volaworand.
Parties to the treaty are entitled to participate in the fullest possible exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to, the further development of the applications of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
NATIONAL ANIMAL EXCHANGE
Each party shall offer, an exchange of a breeding pair of their national animals without cost for the purpose of zoological exhibition in the other nation, or other purposes as mutually agreed. Each party consents to supply directly or indirectly an appropriate source of animal feed at cost for the duration of the exchange.
P R of China will offer a breeding pair of giant panda for exhibition in Volaworand and Volaworand will provide a flock of 10 chinstrap penguins for exhibition in P R of China.
Each party shall be responsible for the health of animals in their charge. In the event of an animal's death, the providing nation shall be compensated at no lower than the market rates in effect at the time and a replacement national animal provided in a reasonable timeframe.
In the event a party changes its national animal, they agree to forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party and supply a breeding pair of the new animal within 30 days.
In the event a nation withdraws unilaterally from this treaty, the party of the withdrawing nation shall forfeit ownership claims on the animals in custody of the other party.
SCIENTIFIC, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COOPERATION
Exchanges of scientific and academic personnel between schools, universities, research stations, and other institutions such are encouraged and both parties will expedite the local permitting and visa process for persons involved in such exchanges. Results of joint non-military research projects are to be published jointly by the educational or research institutions of nations participating in such exchanges.
The parties agree not to trade material or provide any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
The parties are entitled to participate in the fullest possible study and exchange of scientific information for, and to contribute, alone or in cooperation with each other, to:
the further development of the applications of atomic or nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
the further development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of bacteriology (biology) for prevention of disease and the use of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes.
the development and application of scientific discoveries in the field of chemistry for improvement of agriculture and the use of chemical agents for peaceful purposes.
Licensing or Certification of Professional Certifications
The parties shall allow recognition of the credentials issued of the other's primary diploma and higher education degree programs within their domestic education programs.
A party may recognize the education or experience obtained, requirements met, or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the other Party for the purposes of the fulfillment, in whole or in part, of its standards or criteria for the authorization, licensing or certification of natural persons with professional qualifications.
Recognition referred to the above paragraph, which may be achieved through harmonization or otherwise, may be based upon an agreement or arrangement between the Parties or may be accorded unilaterally.
Where a party recognizes, by agreement or arrangement or unilaterally, the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of a outside nation to this agreement, the party shall accord to the other party an adequate opportunity to demonstrate that the education or experience obtained, requirements met or licenses or certifications granted in the territory of the outside nation should also be recognized.
NON AGRESSION AND MUTAL AID
Both nations henceforth shall maintain a non-aggressive military stance towards the other and not provide aid or comfort to the declared enemies of the other nation.
Both parties agree to share intelligence information about the threats or hostile activities of any nation or group that threatens the peace and security of the other nation.
Both signatories henceforth shall also send international aid including (but not limited to) food, water, or construction equipment after massive or heavy destruction and/or casualties has been inflicted on the other country. If requested, both signatories shall provide shelter and protection to each other's populations displaced by war, military conflict or declared natural disaster.
DISPUTES BETWEEN PARTIES
Disputes between the parties concerning the interpretation or application of this treaty should, if possible, be settled through the diplomatic channel.
If a dispute between the parties cannot thus be settled, upon the request of either party, the dispute shall be submitted to an arbitral tribunal.
Such an arbitral tribunal shall be constituted for each individual case in the following way. Within one month of the receipt of the request for arbitration, each party shall appoint one member of the tribunal. Those two members shall then select a national of a third nation who, on approval by the two parties, shall be appointed Chair of the tribunal. The Chair shall be appointed within one month from the date of appointment of the initial two members.
The arbitral tribunal shall reach its decision by a majority of votes. Such decision shall be binding on both parties. Each party shall bear the cost of its own member of the tribunal and of its representation in the arbitral proceedings; the expenses of the Chair and the remaining costs shall be borne in equal parts by the parties. The tribunal may, however, in its decision direct that a higher proportion of costs shall be borne by one of the two parties, and this award shall be binding on both parties. The tribunal shall determine its own procedures.
FINAL TERMS
At the desire of either party, and on fourteen days notice given in writing, this treaty, together with any regulations of trade hereunto annexed, or those that may be hereafter introduced, shall be subject to revision by Commissioners appointed on both sides for this purpose, who will be empowered to decide and insert therein, such amendments as experience shall prove to be desirable and unanimously agreeable to both parties. Agreements become effective when both nations agree in writing and then update their fact book entries or dispatches. If agreement has not been reached at the end of fourteen days the original terms remain in force.
A nation may withdraw from this treaty on one months notice given in writing. Citizens who are living or traveling in the other parties nation during this period shall be allowed to depart without hindrance. The Treaty will remain in force during the notice period.
If a Nation departs The South Pacific region or ceases to exist on nationstates.net it will be deemed to have unilaterally withdrawn from this agreement. Any successor nation will not have an automatic right to resume this Treaty.
This Treaty shall go into effect on the 12th of January 2019. This Treaty is executed in duplicate, each copy being written in English, both versions having the same meaning and intention, and linked to or posted on each nations fact book or dispatches on nationstates.net.
See Also: Ratified Treaties Of Volaworand
We wish for the Falkland Islands so that we may be able to more effectively patrol and defend our Southern Atlantic trade routes, so all we need is permission to construct a military installation on one of the islands. Perhaps we can simply lease Pebble Island for this purpose?
We feel these waters are already well defended by our Naval and Orbital Polar Integrated Regional Anti-piracy Trade Escort Service.
See our Current Deployments section of our Military Factbook.
Overview of Volaworand
History of Volaworand
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- Volaworand Newswire
Geography of Volaworand
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- Principal fossil localities
- Queen Elizabeth Land
Head of State
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
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- How a bill becomes a law
- Volaworand Defence Forces
- Foreign Relations
Economy of Volaworand
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- Volaworand Space Agency
- Southern Transportation Corporation
- VIM Programme
- Attractions and Tourist Activities
- Royal National Zoological Park
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Defence Forces
Royal Dominion Naval Defence Force
Royal Dominion Ground Defence Force
Dominion Specialty Force
Dominion Cyber and Space Defence Force
Ministry of Defence, Rothera
Central Command, Orcadas Base
Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor General
Minister of Defence & Security
Alastair Dickson
Chief of Defense
General William D'Otter
~ 2.3% of GDP
18,440
Reserve Personnel:
5,500 (Primary)
2,000 (Rangers)
Structure Overview
The Volaworandian Defence Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Volaworand and consists of four branches.
This unified institution consists of sea, land, cyber and space, and specialty elements referred to as the Royal Dominion Naval Defence Forces, Royal Dominion Ground Defence Forces, Dominion Special Forces, and Dominion Cyber and Space Defence Forces. The Volaworandian Defence Forces are an entity separate and distinct from the Ministry of Defence (the federal government department responsible for administration and formation of defense policy), which also exists as the civilian support system for the Forces.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Volaworandian Defence Forces is the reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented by the Governor General, although this role is largely ceremonial, with effective command and control exercised by the Prime Minister. The Volaworandian Defence Forces is led by the Chief of the Defence, a general appointed by the Minister of Defence in consultation with the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
The Provinces of Volaworand do not maintain armed forces of their own, since the Constitution states that matters of defence are solely the responsibility of the federal government.
All military personnel are referred to informally as 'Penguins'. Most military tattoos and crests incorporate assorted penguin themes.
History
During the Shetland Accords peace negotiations that granted Volaworand independence, Argentina and Chile pressed for a constitutional restriction on foreign military deployments. The young nation relied heavily on British forces and a military alliance with Japan for security, and has continued to slowly develop an independent defence force. Foreign Deployments are always classes as relief, peacekeeping or international aid missions.
Volaworand Defence Forces have three policy objectives: to defend against low-level threats; to contribute to regional security; and to monitor global security. Volaworand considers its own national defence needs to be minimal, due to its geographical isolation and benign relationships with neighbours. Approximately half of the military budget is spent on the Cyber and Space Defence Force, as the government believes these areas are more cost effective. This leaves the Naval Defence Forces, the largest branch, woefully underfunded.
Although possession of nuclear weapons is not explicitly forbidden in the constitution, Volaworand rejects the of nuclear arms and expressed its determination never to acquire them. The Parliament limits research, development, and use of nuclear power to peaceful uses only. Volaworand ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and reiterated its intention never to "develop, use, or allow the transportation of nuclear weapons through its territory". Nonetheless, because of its generally good technology level, domestic space rocketry program, and number of operating nuclear power plants, Volaworand is generally considered to be "nuclear capable", meaning it could develop a usable weapon if the political situation changed significantly.
Overview of Manpower and Capability
Royal Dominion Naval Defence Forces
Consists of 10,530 Regular and 3,250 Reserve, supported by 4,300 civilians.
Warship Fleet: 2 destroyers, 12 frigates, 5 diesel patrol submarines, 12 coastal defense vessels and 8 patrol/training vessels, 2 command support ships as well as several auxiliary vessels.
Coast Guard Fleet: 119 vessels and 22 helicopters, most lightly armed or unarmed, tasked with marine search and rescue support, fire fighting, communication, navigation and transportation issues (such as navigation aids, mapping and icebreaking), marine pollution response, federal law enforcement and support of other government initiatives.
Snowflake Response Unit: International Disaster Response team. Deploys to triggered nations to distribute blankets and hot chocolates. Offers burn creams as needed.
The Naval Academy at Orcadas Base trains officers for the VNDF and for allied naval forces.
The The Sasebo Deal allows naval forces the stationed at Hamo-Asakawa Dock at Daejeong-Eup, Hanguk-Nippon. In exchange Volaworand allowed Hanguk-Nipponese Air Forces to be stationed within the Marimbo Military Base. Togther, these forces protect merchant fleets and secure shipping lanes. The Royal Dominion Naval Defence Force conducts annual exercises and anti-terroism missions jointly with this allied force.
Royal Dominion Ground Defence Forces
Consists of 1,200 Regular, 750 Reserve and 2,000 Rangers, supported by 700 civilians.
Royal Dominion Ground Defence Forces consists of Regular troops serving in 4 Infantry units, 4 Fixed Anti-air units, 2 Amphibious units, Logistics Support, Diplomatic Defence Units (serving at home and abroad protecting embassies, consulates and trade offices), Military Health Services and Military Police. Most are based domestically at the capital in Rothera or in the South Shetland Islands and Orcadas Base.
Signals and Comms teams operate three nuclear powered ice bunkers (Camp Century, Camp Recovery and Camp Evans) and the Polar Advance Warning System (PAWS), a network of various radar, satellite, air raid and other attack detection systems
The Rangers essentially armed civilians who provide a limited military presence in sparsely settled and remote areas. They receive 12 days or so per year of formal training, along with gear, rifles and in some cases are provided snowmobiles. They are considered to be always on duty, observing and reporting as part of their daily lives. A primary role of this part-time force is to conduct surveillance or sovereignty patrols as required. Some Rangers also conduct inspections of the Polar Advance Warning System (PAWS) and other sites and act as guides, scouts, and subject-matter experts in such disciplines as wilderness survival when other military branches or science missions are in their area of operations. Rangers are paid as Reserve forces, except when they are in training or called out on domestic operations (such as fire fighting or Search and Rescue), when they are paid as Regular Force.
Dominion Special Forces
Consists of 3,200 Regular, 1300 Reserve, supported by 900 civilians.
two Air Support Units (6 patrol planes, numerous helicopters, 2 large transport planes, a high altitude spy plane, and one heavy cargo plane)
three Engineering Units - Airfield, Heavy Equipment and Disaster Response teams
4 Mobile Anti-air Units - these can be deployed on land or sea to augment the air defence network
a Joint Deployment Force - an elite, rapid response unit comprised of members from all branches
6 Search and Rescue Units - staged throughout the nation
Dominion Cyber and Space Defence Forces
Consists of 3,510 Regular, 200 Reserve, supported by 2,450 civilians.
National Cyber Security Centre, an effective cyber force at Orcadas Base
Nuclear Power Program, based at Orcadas Base, to develop small nuclear power reactors for use at remote sites and Naval submarine reactor designs.
Military Space Unit, research program, monitors military satellite information, operates rocket program of the civilian Volaworand Space Agency in Halley
Intelligence Service Unit [data classified]
Polar Missile Defence Shield - Volaworand, along with four smaller allied nations maintains a network of space, sea and land based assets to detect and disable missiles.
Current Deployments
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* Domestic Merchant Fleet & International Shipping lane protection, joint operation with Hanguk-Nippon.
Under the terms of The Sasebo Deal, Hanguk-Nippon's airforce is allowed to station forces within the VDF's Marimbo Military Base, and Volaworand's Naval Defence Force is allowed to station forces at Hamo-Asakawa Dock at Daejeong-Eup in Hanguk-Nippon.
* Deployments supporting the General Shoigu's government in South Pacifica Isles against FLM terrorists and anti-government rebel forces.
* Naval and Special forces deployed to Midand as part of the War on Terror, specificly targeting Le Front de Liberation du Midand.
Under the 2017 Midand Terms of Surrender, Volaworand operates a foreign joint military base shared by Volaworand's Naval Forces and North prarie's Air Forces in Midand. Volaworand also shared responsibility to patrol the Demilitarized Zone dividing Midand after the war. In October 2018, Volaworand briefly withdrew from this base in protest, however the base was quietly reopened as part of the War on Terror targeting Le Front de Liberation du Midand terrorist group .
*The Naval and Orbital Polar Integrated Regional Anti-piracy Trade Escort Service (NOPIRATES): This Anti-Piracy operation protects international trade routes between Volaworand, British Pitcairn Islands British Falkland Islands S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and their international trading partners.
* South Pacific Polar Missile Defense Shield: Volaworand, jointly with British Pitcairn Islands British Falkland Islands S Georgia and S Sandwich Islands and St Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is developing a space, land and naval based Missile Defense system to guard the south pacific polar region against incoming threats.
Previous Deployments
* 2 ships were deployed to Tilipria on humanitarian relief mission. One Coast Guard Support Snowflake Response Vessel with blankets and hot chocolate, another science vessel with Marine Biologist teams to evaluate damage to marine ecosystems, and 50,000 tree seedlings and a group of student volunteers to assist in reforestation. The government recalled the mission during the South Pacific Cold War, after planting 75% of the goal of one million tree's replanted.
* Joint operations with Martigues to support the South Pacific Anti-Piracy Initiative. Cancelled due to cost cutting.
* One ship with a Health Service Unit from the Royal Dominion Ground Forces has been dispatched to Midand to provide Health Services in the war ravaged nation. The military has also built and maintained two refugee camps at Marambio Base and Esperanza Base, on the northern tip of the Antarctic Penisuala. After passage of the War Measures Act, the military converted the refugee camps and operated a total of 6 internment camps of Midand born "Enemy Aliens" and work camps supporting infrastructure projects, notably the Camp Century, Camp Recovery and Camp Evans ice bunkers.
* National Cyber Security Centre "closely mointiored" the Prime Ministerial elections in allied Martigues and the nuclear program of Thefourthreic.
* Domestic Forces are on a lowered alert due to the winding down of war in nearby Techganet. Military personnel on leave are subject to a 72 hour recall and all units must maintain a 24 hour deployment ready status.
* Operation Iceberg: Defence of Imperialantarctica during hostilities with Brasilistan
Under terms IX and X of our treaty Volaworand will commit Military Forces to the defence of Imperial Antarctia, and allow access to our Military Intelligence on Brasilistan.
Royal Dominion Naval Defence Forces will deploy one third of our fleet to defend critical ports. (1 destroyers, 3 frigates, 2 patrol submarines, 4 coastal defence vessels and 2 patrol/training vessels, 1 command support ship)
Royal Dominion Ground Defence Forces will deploy a Infantry Defence unit and a Amphibious Assault unit to defend your capital accompanied by a Military Health Services Field Hospital Unit.
Dominion Special Forces will deploy to your capital with one air support units (2 patrol planes, 10 helicopters, and one large transport plane) to provide logistical/resupply support, and deploy our Disaster Response Engineering Unit.
We will additionally allow your military access to our Cartosat 2E Earth-imaging platform Satillite for real time imagery of troop movements. Our Lemur CubeSat, VLC-A shall provide tracking ships out of range of terrestrial receivers.
Our lone high altitude spy plane will patrol over the entirety of the continent for the duration of hostilities.
The National Cyber Security Centre/Intelligence Service Unit is definitely not meddling in the domestic politics of allies in Midand, Techganet, Hanguk-Nippon and others. The government has dismissed these reports as fake news. Leaks to the contrary resulted in the ISU spy scandal in 2018.
VDF in the news:
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See Also: Foreign Relations of Volaworand
Should you wish to discuss operating your own Naval Station within our Marimbo Military Base on Marambio Island, Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, we would be open to a small deployment to allow you to service your own ships. If you would like to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement please advise.
If you would like to negotiate simple docking and resupply services at our Orcadas Naval Base in the South Orkney Islands, we are open to the discussion, but are not open to permanent placement of non-allied troops there, as it is our military's Central Command HQ, Cyber Operation Center, and Naval Academy. Service here would be provided by our military under strict supervision.
The Antarctic Peninsula isn't the most optimal place for the operations we wish to carry out. It has been a pleasure negotiating however I don't believe we will be able to come to an agreement.
Alright, we'll let go of it. But we'll take the city of Raton, in North Korea.
Roswaesian diplomacy and East Sakhlin
Nova Montron 
Sthalrim, ready!
Can you start us off?)
(Sure.)
*Harper sits at the table and talks to James*
Yeah I love staying here, but Zega is probably going to make us start moving again...
Aw, what?? You guys can't go, you just got here.
I know, I really want to stay but... It's complicated.
The messenger rides fast to the town, his back is burnt and he is bleeding from his side*
(Can we make it so that he's riding through the woods and Harper and Ciaran hear him?)
(yes)
Ciaran wakes up from hearing the hoof beats*
*Harper hears the hoofbeats in the forest, but can't let James know she hears it*
Um, I'm gonna go let Ciaran know you're here.
*She gets up and comes to the room*
You may have to discuss this with 
Hanguk-Nippon
you have that look on your face. whats going on?
Ciaran gets dressed and and heads for the door*
The messenger rides quick pushing his horse to the limits*
Someone's riding through the woods, and they don't sound okay. I think it may be the messenger Ciaran sent out.
*Harper calmly walks back to the kitchen so as to not raise any suspicions*
She's gonna go catch some breakfast.
Oh, does she need help?
Nah, she's good.
i'll go check on him.
*passes james and stares him down. grabs war-axe and moves outside*
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