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Cabinet Meeting 9.1; opened 25 January; closed 10 April
Topic Started: 25 Jan 2014, 00:35 (1,348 Views)
StJames
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To my comrades of the Ninth Cabinet of the DSA, greetings!

I wish to congratulate all of you on being elected or reelected your respective posts in the Cabinet and look forward to working with all of you during this term. Below you will find the issues that I would like the Cabinet to discuss and commit to as its shared agenda. However, all of you are free and encouraged to provide any feedback, ideas and initiatives you would like the Cabinet to pursue over the coming weeks.

For all newcomers, the purpose of these meetings is to discuss issues facing the region as a whole and receive status updates from ministers on their duties in the region. I shall ask each of you to regularly (preferably at least once every week or two) update the Cabinet on the status of your ministries and share any concerns. I shall provide each ministry with a small list of items to address, though you need not discuss all of these at once as long as you get to each of them eventually.

With that being said and without further delay, I declare open this meeting of the Ninth Cabinet.

---Agenda---

1. Review jobs offered in the 'Help Wanted' subforum
If you want an assistant for your ministry, post the job in the subforum.

2. Munificent Interregional Alliance (Continuation of IRALL)
The Alliance treaty is currently in the drafting stage on the NS forums. Our responsibility is to draw up the government section of the treaty. Once the entire treaty is completed, it will need to be put up for a congressional vote.

3. The World Assembly
I would like to see us acting as a more unified force on World Assembly affairs. This may include the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs, proposed by United Federation of Canada/Chester Pearson, last term or something of that nature. Ideas on this front are more than welcome

4. Interregional Diplomacy
I would again like to see the establishment of new embassies if possible. I would also like to see regular communication with and from our current embassy regions, whose ties we will be strengthening with the Alliance treaty.

5. Congressional Action
Now that we have a formal legislative process set up, I would like to get the ball rolling on proper legislation. One of the ideas brought up during the election was have Congress formally question the Cabinet. Other suggestions are welcome.

6. DSA Role Play Convention
In cooperation with the Minister of Role Play, I would like to see a second round of the DSA Role Play Convention to outline details on the new common currency, a Bank of the DSA, a miniature WA for the DSA and establishing our roleplay history.

7. Reorganising the Forum
To complement new activity in the Court and possible new activity in the Congress, I would like to see the Secretary General and I reorganise the forums under the guidance and recommendations of DSAers.

---Items for individual ministries---

Secretary General (SG):
1. Make sure everything is updated (Amendments, Charter nations, etc.).
2. Organise an evaluation of the Eighth Cabinet.
3. Appoint an advisor, if desired.
4. Contact the Scientific States to familiarise yourself with the position.


Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA):
1. Make embassy recommendations to P/WAD.
2. Try to find new regions to potentially establish embassies with.
3. Monitor ambassadors for potential inactivity.
4. Appoint an advisor, if desired.

Minister of Justice (MoJ):
1. Audit region for Civil Rights (CR), Political Freedoms (PF), and National Categories (NC) compliance.
2. Make recommendations to P/WAD for nations to eject, if any.

Minister of Immigration/Regional Promotion (MIRP):
1. Make sure the auto-telegram system is transferred and working properly.
2. Review and revise recruitment telegram draft.
3. Contact the Suceavija to familiarise yourself with the position.


Minister of Domestic Affairs (MDA):
1. Come up with new debate ideas.
2. Try to come up with a new contest or game.
3. Try to update all the information in the NS Wiki. (This will be problematic, given that NSWiki is "down for maintenance".)
--There should not be too much to change. Mainly population and a few other minor details.
4. Update the DSA Capitol factbook.
5. Appoint an advisor, if desired.
6. Contact Lemur Isles to familiarise yourself with the position.


Minister of Role Play (MoRP):
1. Verify all nations on map are:
--Existing
--Reside in the region (domestic puppets okay, too)
2. Keep the map current and updated.
3. Encourage new roleplays in the Gymnasia.
Edited by StJames, 10 Apr 2014, 01:54.
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Now: DSA is at 386 nations.
Before Auto Telegramming starts: DSA is at 366 nations.

I'd like to announce that the auto-telegram and general recruiting are currently a breakthrough success.
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Also, Haltari, I think it's been sufficiently long enough to start the evaluation. ;) I'd also like to have an evaluation of the current Cabinet at the midpoint of the term so that we can work on feedback in real time.
Ok. I'll start it right now then.
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Gervase, do you happen to have the list of nations to eject on you?
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Here you are:

Rizalia
Josesote
Mother Russia Republic
Pattonia
Angelstopia
Wise Island
The Elder Scrolls of Skyrim
Grozynchia
Transnistria-

And the Google Doc, for reference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al683sTBKOYedG9IUXFUQTNobmlpX0dPY2E5Zi05dVE&usp=drive_web#gid=1
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All of them have been duly ejected, Gervase.

On the matter of MIA, the SLU has a draft for the military section of the treaty and I'd like to see what everyone's opinions on it are.
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I don't think it really has to be in this UN format, but if this format was agreed upon earlier than I won't try to change it. It is also a bit strange that the NGOs are not affiliated with the Alliance but still rely on it's civil section for punishments, and it only briefly mentions how other regions could join through an embassy with all of the other regions, without really going very deeply into that either.
Edited by Haltari, 12 Feb 2014, 03:02.
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Oh, dear. This is the sort of thing that would have every lawyer in a hundred-mile radius salivating if it were a real-life document -- it's remarkably convoluted and vague. Leaving aside the many errors of diction, punctuation and so on, why is this written like a resolution instead of a treaty, as Haltari alluded to? I've read over this thing a couple of times now and I still don't think I have any idea who's supposed to do what. This thing is crying out for some clarity, both in terms of format and content. Back to the drawing board...
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To answer the question on style: Hat's insistence. Second: does anyone have any ideas about the defence section, given that I am fairly willfully apathetic about R/D gameplay.
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Quoth The Black Hat Guy: "I would prefer at World Assembly style draft ("Realizing", "Mandating", etc), because that's simply what I'm used to."

If I were a facepalming man, I think I would've just given myself a concussion.

Here's an idea: let's rewrite it as a lyric poem. It's what I'm used to, after all.
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Let's just say that I'm not in any way defending the stylistic choices of Hat, but yes, it's a tad ridiculous.

EDIT: Looking for a little informal interpretation here, but would the military alliance be legal by the Charter. We do have this provision:
Article I, Section I, Clause VIII
 
The DSA’s foreign policy is based upon a position of presumed neutrality. The DSA reserves the use of its regional defensive capabilities exclusively for the security of itself and its allies. The DSA shall only seek to influence events, activities, and individuals abroad via formal diplomacy based upon the Regional Principles.

Given that we would be bound by treaty to the other members of the alliance, we could formally recognise them as allies, could we not?
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