Foreign relations of Istria

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The Diplomatic Foreign Relations of Istria are directed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Presidential Administration. All the diplomatic relations treaties must be signed by the President, be approved by the Parliament, and the Government. The process of approving the treaties can go two ways: a foreign micronation contacts the Presidential Administration; the Secretary of Foreign Affairs discusses with the contacter and proposes a Treaty Draft to the Parliament. The Parliament has a policy of 2/3 of the votes policy, approved in 2019; after the Parliament signed the law approving the Treaty Draft. This law is getting then to the Presidential Administration where the Presidents signs a Presidential Decree and then the Presidential Decree goes to the Prime-Minister, which is advised by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to sign the Decree.

Istria is member of a number of different micronational organizations and treaties.

Foreign and diplomatic policy

The Istrian Passport Cover

Istria's foreign and diplomatic policy changed alongside the years. Firstly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would handle all the database and organizational work conducted to assure Istria's intermicronational recognition. This changed in 2018 where the Presidential Administration organized His Excellencies, The President's Cabinet of Secretaries, and associated the institutions formed with regarding government ministers. That is how the Foreign Affairs Secretary became the institution we know today and he developed the current Foreign and Diplomatic Policy that is now the general conduct of the Foreign Affairs Ministry and Foreign Affairs Department.

Foreign Relations Program

The Foreign Relations Program is an initiative started by the Presidential Administration of Istria, to promote the foreign relations between micronations, and has the purpose of gaining as many micronations as possible and to make a Forum of the Foreign Relation of Micronations. In its first year since release, the FRP has the purpouse of gaining as many members as possible, and, it's goal for 2022 is to be sign a Declaration of the Intermicronational Law, to ordinate and classify the intermicronational foreign affairs.

Current Foreign Policy

The current foreign policy was introduced in march of 2019 and became effective in may of 2019. The policy was drafted by the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies. This Foreign policy regarding international relations and protocol of presenting the country was developed and put into effect by the MoFA and DoFA until today.

In 2021 the Presidential Administration launched the Foreign Affairs Program, a program that has as target to form an international micronational summit online discussing development strategies for different micronations around the globe.

The current foreign policy is as it follows:

  • The nation must be at least six months old, effective from the date of establishment or at least depict the characteristics of a nation which is six months old.
  • The nation must claim its own sovereignty and shall claim itself to be a real nation as Istria does not entertain relations with any roleplay nation.
  • The nation must have serious claims, and at least 50% of the land shall be able to be visited.
  • The nation must respect Istria's culture, laws, traditions and government.
  • The nation must not be indulged in any form of war, conflict and should not encourage it and nor should illegally claim sovereignty over any other nation.
  • The nation must have a stable system of government with detailed information on its leaders, system of government.
  • The nation must be on a social site such as-MicroWiki, website, Discord etc.; so that information about state history, state scandals etc. can be collected.
  • The nation must respect and recognize the Human Rights Declaration.

Any nation that satisfies the mentioned terms and conditions as per the foreign policy is eligible for establishing bilateral relations with the State.

Recognized Nations

Nations with which Istria has signed a treaty of mutual recognition

Organizations

Istria is a member of a number of organizations and treaties:

Scandals

Lanevinian Foreign Affairs Scandal

The scandal revolves around the Lanevinian Government who is claiming to have relations with multiple nations including Vlasynia, which is a defunct nation, and Snagov, who hasn't publicly announced it's recognition of Lanevinia and formal relations with the country. The Istrian Government is stating that no treaty has been signed with this simulationist micronation which is "a total mess in terms of civics" and has been very clear in a 20 pages document for the reason and motivation of the non-contact decision with this supposed nation.

Queendom of Nyx Foreign Affairs Scandal

The scandal that started on twitter, and involved the Queendom on Nyx was provoked by the decision taken by the Foreign Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration to end the diplomatic relations with the Nyxan Gouvernment. This led to a series of comments by HM The Queen and the Prime Minister, that ended with the majoritary support of the Istrian Gouvernment. The Istrian Gouvenrment had responded briefly by mentioning it's commitment to its foreign policy that recently was changed to support the Ukrainian Micronations and help them combat any type of attacks to the Ukrainian Micronational Community.