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Cabinet Meeting 12.0; The first meeting of the Twelfth Cabinet
Topic Started: 6 Sep 2014, 15:05 (1,452 Views)
Suceavija
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Greetings to you, my fellow Comrades of the twelfth Cabinet of the DSA! :)

I congratulate you all for being elected/reelected to your Cabinet positions and I eagerly look forward to working with all of you this term.

I would like everyone to review your job descriptions in the Charter. I encourage all first-timers to freely ask any and all questions about your ministerial duties, either here or by telegram with those who have held your position in the past. If you think you will have difficulty fulfilling your duties, I encourage you to appoint an adviser and/or request help from volunteers in the Government Jobs subforum.

Below is my agenda for this term. I invite each of you to provide any feedback and to also provide any additional ideas or initiatives that you would like for your Ministries to pursue over the next 75 days.

I will be busy in RL this term and will not be around as much as I'd like to be. However, I aim to be available to answer questions and check in with your Ministries at least once a week (usually weekends).

Without further ado, my agenda:

Office of the President and WA Delegate:
1. Regional Polls: I would like us to have a much better picture of how residents see the region and their place in it so that we can target initiatives that will increase activity and boost morale.

2. Featured 5: I will renew the weekly roster. This boosts morale and increases dialogue and intrigue between Comrades; so I will make sure to do this regularly.

Office of the Secretary General:
1. Audit the congressional roster in the Forum; make updates to roles/statuses as necessary.
2. Organize an evaluation of the 11th Cabinet.
3. If you wish, appoint an adviser to help point you in the right direction.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
1. Draft and deliver formal apology to the residents of the old Alliance for the trespasses of New Puppy City.
2. Offer your recommendations for accepting/rejecting current embassy requests from abroad.
3. Distribute puppets to allied regions and announce your new position with a warm greeting from your ministry and the DSA.
4. Review current alliances and their regional statuses; compile brief intelligence report for the Cabinet.
5. Give recommendations for closure of embassies (if any) and/or new alliances to form (if any).

Ministry of Immigration and Regional Promotion:
1. Keep up the good work! Despite heavy losses due to mass-CTE, our region still hovers around 285 - a significant improvement from the recent past.
2. Keep the Cabinet updated about any interregional or world-wide conferences, or anything else that you think would be a good venue in which to promote our region.

Ministry of Justice:
1. Remedy any loose ends left from the previous Minister between their untimely absence and now.
2. Audit region for Charter compliance and begin proceedings for violators, if any. Report findings directly to the Secretary General so that they may update the Congressional Roster accordingly.

Ministry of Domestic Affairs:
1. Host a new discussion/debate in the Forum and advertise it in both Solidarity and with posts on the RMB.
2. Hold a contest for anything you'd like. In the past we have done things like best factbook entry, best flag, best motto, etc.
3. In the RMB, personally welcome newcomers with a quick post.
4. Compile a new daily or weekly bulletin (like the DDD or Proletariat Press) to summarize things that are going on in the Forum, the NS World, and RL as well.

Ministry of Role Play:
1. Map updates if any.
2. Solidify or create new notes for the regional LCD currency.
3. Introduce a resolution for the DSA Parliament.
4. Host a new RP activity in the Forum.

Please do not hesitate to ask questions. I encourage you to put forth your new ideas and discussion. I wish you all a successful and enjoyable term :)
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Greetings, fellow Cabinet members. It feels good to be back in the old smoky back room after my return to civilian life for most of this year. I see that I have a healthy agenda in front of me already, filled with very worthy tasks. The more time-intensive of them may have to wait for two weeks as I have to plan and help run a conference in Barbados (woot), but the initial greetings and such I'll take care of shortly.
Edited by Gervase, 9 Sep 2014, 00:13.
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I'm glad to finally enter these closed-door forums. And of course, I need to ask how to do my job. My only question is if anyone knows a good method for auditing the region.
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Congratulations, everyone on your election victories!

As Secretary-General, I have taken the liberty of converting the list of Charter Members from human-readable to slightly-less-human-readable format to make it easier for programs to parse the data. Using the new format, I have already found one error on the old list!
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Nice work, South Jarvis. As far as auditing the region, Kotovania, I used to use the NSDossier tool here http://nsdossier.texasregion.net/default.aspx, which I hope you find useful as well.

By the way, does anyone know if we have any current Ambassadors?
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Suceavija
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To Comrade Gervase:

We currently have embassy requests from the following regions:

[region]League of Democracy[/region]
[region]Paradise of peace and quiet[/region]
[region]The Chernobyl Union[/region]
[region]The Inter Regional United Nations[/region]
[region]The Cosmos[/region]

What are your recommendations for each?
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Here's my draft of an apology to the DSAlliance. Suggestions are welcome:

Dear nations of the Democratic Socialist Alliance,

I would like to take this opportunity as the newly elected Minister of Foreign Affairs of the [region]Democratic Socialist Assembly[/region] to extend our apologies for the recent disturbance caused by a resident of our region. We view the provocative statements made by that nation as unacceptable, and they certainly do not express any official position taken by the DSA. We find no excuse for the conduct of that nation and regret that incident occurred.

Yours sincerely,
[nation=short]Gervase[/nation]

As for the embassy requests:

League of Democracy: No significant connection to our region or principles and have clearly sent invitations to dozens of regions lately.
Paradise of peace and quiet: One-nation region
The Chernobyl Union: Too small at this point (9 nations), although socialist. I recommend a wait-and-see approach to see how the region develops.
IRUN: 3 nations and have sent out scattershot embassy requests.
The Cosmos: 6 nations, scattershot embassy requests.

In short, I would advise against opening embassies with any of these regions at this time.
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I'll probably do a bit of reorganizing in my part of the forum, if that's okay. I'll take a closer look and figure it out soon.
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@ Gervase:
Your apology is excellent. I fully support it and I say take it right to the residents of the DSAlliance! Good work :)
I will reject the embassy requests as directed. I will allow the request from Chernobyl Union to expire.

By the way, we just received an embassy request from [region]Currahee[/region]. What is your recommendation?

@ Terlibe:
That sounds fine - I know it needs a little massaging :)
Edited by Suceavija, 11 Sep 2014, 01:30.
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Okay, I've prepared a list of nations in prohibited categories. However, I can't seem to find any way to display the Civil Rights and Political Freedoms by nation. The site tells me that there are more below average than there are in prohibited categories, so I must be missing some.
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