Treaty of Avakir
The Treaty of Avakir was a treaty mooted between the Sovereign Confederation and the Kingdom of Ransenar that would have created the Sovereign-Ransenari Union, an organisation that both nations have given the power to establish and carry out common policy portfolios such as foreign affairs, defence, currency, and other commonly agreed aspects of governance.
The Treaty of Avakir was to have been the first step towards greater political and economic union among the lands in Benacia that once made up the late Shirerithian state of Goldshire. Greater political and economic union will depend on future developments, led by a Joint Committee composed of political and economic leaders of both the Sovereign Confederation and Ransenar. It hoped that more Treaties on further integration will come, and begin to create a common law between the signatories and eventually create a federal Kingdom of Goldshire.
The Treaty was to have been signed in the city of Avakir, in the Sovereign Confederation.
Background
- The preliminary details of the Treaty were negotiated over a series of meetings of the Joint Committee for Goldshire held in the cities of Goldshire Hamlet, Avakir, Kingsgate, and Goldfield by officials of both Governments. The initial draft was first circulated at the inaugural meeting of the Joint Committee in Avakir. The initial declaration of intent was signed by representatives of both nations in the session held in the city of Goldshire Hamlet on 13.IV.1676, and separate Acts made by each of the signatories were then passed by their legislatures and governments to put the agreed Articles into effect on 20.V.1677. The Treaty envisaged by the declaration of intent dealt with the establishment of a "union that shares common powers of policy and governance", committing both nations to further integration under the auspices of a Sovereign-Ransenari Union and the eventual creation of a federal Kingdom of Goldshire.
Ransenar was especially proactive in generating domestic legislation for the purposes of deepening integration:
- Avakir Treaty Referendum, 1677 (Ransenar)
- Avakir Treaty Act, 1676 (Ransenar)
- Avakir Treaty Reforms Act, 1676 (Ransenar)
- Constitutional Amendment Act, 1676 (Ransenar)
- Decrees and other regulations for the referendum to approve the changes (Ransenar)
In line with the declaration of intent, the two realms stepped up cooperation in the sphere of foreign policy. One example of this was observed prior to the signing of the Treaty of Lune Villa, wherein both the Sovereign Confederation and Ransenar appointed diplomatic officials tasked with the negotiation of agreements and treaties that would create greater integration between both countries, rooted in their shared commitments to the Raspur Pact, common history, common concern over the Verionist threat and with the peaceful aspiration of eventually creating a federal Kingdom of Goldshire in the lands that belonged to the old state of Goldshire.
Conscious of the historical legacy of Old Goldshire, both parties had agreed that the federal Kingdom of Goldshire would have its capital at Goldshire Hamlet.
Faced by the scale of the task inherent in reunifying the shattered realm, representatives recognized that total integration would be a long process, decided to refocus their efforts on the process of establishing a common policy on several fields of governance, with the Treaty being restructured around the declaration of intent with further details of integration to be established over successive Treaties and Agreements - culminating in the signing of a new Avakir Treaty once the outline of the new federal kingdom had taken definitive shape.
After this stage had been reached, a new Treaty of Union would signed in Goldshire Hamlet, creating the federal Kingdom, setting out terms of Goldshirian federalism, and establishing a popular elective monarchy (OOC: we rotate the monarchy between Ryker and a character played by Edgard every so often - 6 months?) establishes a common Constitution that both countries will have to approve along their respective processes and traditions.
As with the legislative programme required for the preliminary negotiations, the Treaty would have to go through the Ransenari Congress. The Treaty would need constitutional amendments and a referendum on the changes that the Kingdom had to make in their laws. The Ransenari Congress and the Lord High Steward were empowered to do different parts of the enforcement of the approved changes through a series of acts and decrees, etc etc.
In 1678 AN, the efforts to further integrate the Sovereign Confederation and Ransenar were abandoned, with both realms still engaging each other in issues of common cooperation.
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