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President Morgen issues sanctions against Akitsu and Svarna Surya
By Thomas Kauvegaard
Published: Fein, 1579


Nylander President Tilda Morgen


Norkeping, Nylander Republic | President Tilda Morgen has imposed sanctions against the governments of Svarna Surya and Akitsu, through an executive order. The package of sanctiongs are a response to the coup d'etat against the legitimate governments of both countries, and the controversial constitutional changes which followed.

President Tilda Morgen justified her decree in the authoritarian slide in both Svarna Surya and Akitsu, and the need of the international community to act in order to avoid a wave of authoritarianism and unstability in the Ostaran continent, which would have negative consequences for the order and peace of the continent. It is the first time that Nyland government has sanction a country for internal affairs in decades.

The Order will establish visa bans to a number of government and military officials of both Svarnan Surya and Akitsu, specially those directly involved in the coup d'etat and anti-constitutional measures which followed. It also freezes assets and bans doing business in Nyland against companies from vote countries which are state-owned or have direct links with the government or military industries. It also establishes an arms embargo on both countries.

The order also bar state-owned financial institutions from those countries from directly accessing the Nylander financial system, also technically they may be permitted to do so indirectly through banks in other countries. Notwithstanding, their assets under Nyland law will be frozen as well.

President Morgen's executive order will have an immediate effect, although it is unclear if Nylander Assembly will support this decision. It is believed that the decision was even controversial within Morgen's coalition government, and this may be a reason why the sanctions were not issued immediately. But analysts believe that the "hardline approach on foreign policy" within the Morgen administration -which it is believed to have Secretary of State Helga Myhre and Secretary of Defense Viggo Worsae as leading voices- imposed at the end.

Secretary of State Helga Myhre has declared that the issued sanctions should not be understood as a "full-fledged support of the previous Svarnan coalition government" which "serious abuses and mismanagement of rule of law we were the first to criticize", but she added that "unlawful usurpation of power by the military authorities can not be tolerated" and that the reforms of the new authorities does not fulfill "the standards of a liberal democracy". Myhre insisted that Morgen administration will keep working to the promotion of democracy and peace in Ostara, as only workable and stable solution for the strengthening of peace and security in the region.

President Tilda Morgen called Nyland's allies to issue similar sanctions against both countries.