Transcript of Recording ID# C295-638

[secretarygeneral]

TO: The Honorable Glen Quagmire, Secretary General of the SNQ
FROM: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
RE: Transcript of Recording ID# C295-638

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Dear Mr. Quagmire,

The following conversation was recorded just a few hours ago. I thought that you may find it of great interest. No thanks needed. My loyalty lies first with the SNQ.

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Location: The Gold Dining Room, The Imperial Palace, St. Andrei, HE of Vitalina

Date: Tuesday, December 27

In attendance: President John Vitaliz of Vitalinia (J), President Adre Vizliat of Vitalistan (AD), President Richard Long of Calvista (R), and Empress Aleksandra Vitalinova of Vitalina (AL).

AD: An excellent dinner, Sasha. These delicacies are hard to come by in my country, unfortunately.

AL: I'm glad that there are no hard feelings between us, Adre. I did what I had to.

AD: Aye, well...

J: I have to agree with Sasha. What you did, Adre... borders on extremism. If you stayed and forced Sasha's hand—I hate to imagine what it would look to the common states if the Six turned their guns upon each other.

R: You are all cowards.

AL: What are you saying?

R: You cater to the common states, as though *they* held the power and not us!

J: Dick, being one of Six is a position of responsibility, not just power. There must be a balance.

R: Diplomacy is for the birds! Action! Politics is about *action*!

AL: You are a fool.

AD: Even *I* know when is too far.

R: No, you had the right idea. I would have backed you, Adre. If I had thought of it, I would have sent my troops in there... I would have shot those satellites to the ground!

J: Calm down, man!

R: The Six is a joke! All you do is talk and talk. We have power but none of you have the will to use it!

AL: Yes, we have power, but we need to remember that we have that power to uphold the principles of the SNQ. To lord our power over the other nations... that violates everything the SNQ was founded on.

R: Perhaps then I should relinquish my position as one of the six.

AD: You can't be serious! You were with us since the beginning!

R: I see now that my vision has changed... this isn't how I expected everything to turn out.

J: Are you pulling out of the region then, Richard?

R: No, but my nation cannot be part of the Six any longer. I have a co—

[At this point, the recording was interrupted by an alternate frequency. The rest of conversation was lost in static.]

[akebono]

SETTING: The SNQ Delegate Assembly

Ambassador Eleleth stands up.

This incident above all else should convince the rest of the Common nations, as it has us, for the need to create the position of Secretary General responsible to the common nations to balance the SS.

Thank You

The Ambassador sits down.

[sondra]

SETTING: The SNQ Delegate Assembly

::Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kirrill Ivanov takes the podium::

My fellow delegates. The incident recorded was of a private dinner between friends, and nothing more. What occurred was first and foremost, a gross violation of their privacy. This delegate is curious as to the source of the transcripts and the intent of Secretary General Quagmire in publishing them.

The Holy Empire of Vitalina fails to see how this incident can be used to demonstrate a need to alter the role of the Secretary General as it seems that this publication served the interests of the Common Nations more than that of the Sensational Six.

In response to the content of the transcript, Her Royal Majesty Empress Aleksandra Vitalinova has allowed me to disclose the following information.

The Confederacy of Calvista, under the leadership of President Richard Long, has decided to resign from the Sensational Six. His formal resignation is forthcoming. This, of course, leaves a vacancy in the Six. A nation from the SNQ will be appointed to the position after a summit meeting with the remaining members at an undisclosed location in the next few days.

Thank you, and may God continue to bless the SNQ.

::Minister Ivanov returns to his seat.::

[vitalinia]

SETTING: The SNQ Delegate Assembly

[Ambassador General Hakim Zilativ takes up the podium]

Our nation would like to issue a formal response to the leaked conversation to the Secretary General. We hope that the Assembly can find this as evidence of the benevolent intentions of the Sensational Six. The nation of Calvista has resigned his position as a member of the Sensational Six (yet will forever retain the honor of being a founding nation) after she was found to have values that contradict the responsibility of being a member of the Sensational Six; responsibilities that emphasize impartiality, diplomacy, and political equality. Therefore, we hope that this event will vindicate your trust in us as well-placed and well-earned. On behalf of the remaining nations of the Sensational Six, we pledge on our sacred honor that we shall press on with the solemn responsibility of impartiality, diplomacy, and political equality in order to keep our glorious region on course to become like a city upon a hill, a shining beacon of freedom and sovereignty for the world to see.

We would like to reiterate the position stated by the honorable delegate from the Holy Empire of Vitalina. We shall choose a new member to replace Calvista in the fellowship of the Sensational Six in the next several days.

May God continue to bless the Sovereign Nations of Quagmire!