Postcard from Victoria

[bjornolsen]

Dear Universalis

It is my absolute privelage on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Victoria II to send you this postcard from Riego Victoria. A new Micronation in this hobby of ours that has been in the pipeline since April this year. We have spent a lot of time working on it and we would like to let you all know that as of November 29th we became a Virtual Micronation.

I hope we have a long a happy relationship as our paths cross in the near future and would be very interested in setting up a process in which we can build an alliance with each other. We have set up what we hope will soon become our embassy website in Aristarchus here

On behalf of the nation and Her Majesty, we give you Victoria.

It is my hope that this postcard finds you well,

Regards,

Bjorn

[Chairman Ryan]

Greetings Mr. Olsen,

As Chairman of Universalis, I thank you for the postcard and well wishes from Victoria. Your website and the materials it contains therein are quite impressive. I applaud the level of work and effort you have put into developing your country.

Please send my best regards to Her Majesty the Queen.

We would indeed be interested in establishing diplomatic relations with Victoria. I suggest that we start with establishing a treaty of peace and mutual recognition to begin with, as a precursor to future strengthened relations. If this is amenable, I will draft up a treaty for you to review (unless you have a preference to draft a proposal yourself).

All the best,
Ryan

[bjornolsen]

Ryan,

Thank you very much for your words of kindness. We appreciate it greatly

I shall be sure to pass on your word to HM The Queen when she arrives in Riego on Thursday

In terms of treaties etc please do feel free to send me your copy. During today I shall also be working on a foreign policy and the way forward in which Victoria would like to interact with Diplomats and Ambassadors.

I look forward in anticipation to your treaty.

Regards,

Bjorn

[Chairman Ryan]

How does this look? Please feel free to make any modifications/additions if you find they are necessary.

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Treaty of Copernicus
Between the
Technocracy of Universalis
and the
Kingdom of Victoria

1. Both parties agree to recognize the sovereignty of each other as individual and independent micronations, and to respect diplomatic protocols as attributed to that status.

2. Both parties agree to recognize the mutual inviolability of their respective boundaries, and the lands comprised therein, and to respect these demarcations.

3. Both parties agree not to engage in activities of military, espionage, or subversive acts that would otherwise harm the opposite party.

4. Both parties agree, that by virtue of this treaty, it is desirable to further enhance our cultural and diplomatic relationship, that continued contact with each other is a necessity and shall endeavor to remain in touch via diplomacy and to share, when applicable, in the common good of intermicronational cooperation.

Signed for Universalis,
Ryan, Chairman of the Science Governing Board
Acting Administrator of Foreign Relations

Signed for Victoria,
xxxx

[bjornolsen]

Please forgive me for my late response. As you can imagine My Department has been very busy at this time. On the 4th of December I presented to the Cabinet my draft bill which is now being debated on and awaiting a response from the Department of Legal Affairs before being put to the people in a referendum. I am also in the process of preparing our Foreign Policy which may also be of some useful information to your nation when we discuss a treaty.

I would ask that we hold off a couple of days until I have more information to give to you before negotiating a treaty if this is okay?

[Chairman Ryan]

Certainly. There's no hurry.

[bjornolsen]

20/12/2009
Ref: Foreign Policy Announcement
From: The Department of Foreign Affairs

Victoria release foreign policy

On behalf of Her Majesty's Government It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of our Foreign Policy for 2009 and the early part of 2010. Although we have started treaty negotiations with various micronations we felt it best to hold of any pro active approach until we could provide you with some more basic information.

Below are various links to our Foreign Policy and a very breif Quick Guide to Victoria. To view in html, PDF and or Word please click here

or click the PDF files below



I hope this finds you well and that you may be interested in furthering Diplomatic Relations in the near future.

Yours Sincerely,



Rt Hon. Dr. Bjorn Olsen
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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