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Conduct of external relations
Foreign relations rest on the equality of peoples, non-intervention, and public conduct.
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External Relations And Solidarity
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Chapter 1 · Principles
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Competence and conduct
The competent committee conducts them, with mandates and negotiating texts published.
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Life-limiting regimes
A state is life-limiting because of what it does, never because of what it calls itself.
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Defectors and persons in flight
Anyone fleeing such a state becomes a citizen on recognition, without the five-year wait.
Chapter 2 · Treaties
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Negotiation, signature and ratification
Treaties need two thirds of the Assembly and a court check, and unions and borders need a referendum.
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Prohibited commitments
Treaties may never accept arbitration, privatisation, patents, debt or foreign bases.
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Withdrawal
Withdrawal follows the same route, and is immediate if a treaty would require a void act.
Chapter 3 · The Union
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Membership
The Republic belongs to the Democratic Socialist Bloc, and joins no union requiring a free market.
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Effect of union acts
Union standards take effect only when the Assembly enacts them, and nothing applies of its own force.
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Union settlement and currency
Exchange is settled in kind, and a common currency can never be accepted.
Chapter 4 · Frontiers and Movement
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Open frontiers
Open frontiers are the goal, and no agreement may make the Republic police anyone's departure.
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Rescue and assistance
Rescue is owed to anyone in distress, and rescuers are never prosecuted.
Chapter 5 · Trade, Imports and Technological Sovereignty
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Order of supply
Needs are met at home first, and unused domestic capacity is developed before importing.
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Costly imports and project licences
Costly imports need a public licence, and the Ecological Authority can refuse it outright.
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Exchange with life-limiting regimes
Trade with a life-limiting state is banned, except for materials available nowhere else.
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Technological sovereignty
Public systems must run without any foreign supplier's consent, licence or continued existence.
Chapter 6 · Solidarity
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Obligation of solidarity
Solidarity is owed to peoples in want, without conditions and without debt.
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The floor
At least one hundredth of all allocated resources goes to solidarity, and can never be cut.
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Direction and refusal
Solidarity reaches peoples through their own organisations, never through an apparatus of coercion.
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Ecological and colonial reparation
The Republic accounts its ecological debt, and returns what was taken from other peoples.