Kiso Pact
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Kiso Kyōtei (Tsurushimese) Kiso Pact (Allamunic) Kiso Amtawa (Takelat) Pakt Kiso (Ostro-Ludzic) Kisō Givisuma (Terasi) Kisopakte (Waltch) Kasunduan Ng Kiso (Alhranese) | |
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| Formation | October 28, 2019 |
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| Founded at | Kiso, Takinoya Prefecture, Tsurushima |
| Type | Mutual aid |
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The Pact for Mutual Prosperity, Solidarity, and Common Defence, commonly known as the Kiso Pact, is a mutual aid organization between nine socialist countries across five continents. The organization's goals are to advance co-operation in cultural, economic, and energy matters with one another, and to protect human rights worldwide.
The Group traces its origins to the first summit discussing a pact between republican-socialist nations frequently isolated from the global status-quo held in the Tsurushiman city of Kiso on October 28, 2019.
History
Regional alliances
First Kiso Summit
In October 2019, the government of Tsurushima convened a summit in the small mountain resort town of Kiso in the Takinoya Prefecture northeast of the Tsurushiman city of Kogaya. Delegations from Ankat, Talahara, North Ottonia, Ostrozava, Pulau Keramat, Mniohuta, and Wazheganon joined the host government in discussing an international treaty relationship.
Context
The summit was convened primarily in reaction to tense relations between libertarian and authoritarian socialist nations in the Makrian region. The Enyaman Civil War, which had broken out a month prior, was also a growing concern. For most of the world's history, different socialist nations inhabited separate spheres. The eastern sphere of Ankat, Pulau Keramat, and Tsurushima had been broadly isolated from the Belisarian sphere of North Ottonia and Ostrozava and the Scipian sphere of Talahara and Tyreseia. Further in the west, Wazheganon, Mniohuta, and Zacapican (while not invited) had been historically isolated. The understanding was that a summit could lead to a firm global mutual aid and support network for anti-authoritarian republican socialist nations.
Objectives
From the outset of the summit, there were three major objectives and several ancillary concerns. Citing tensions with monarchic nations in the Makrian, the Tsurushiman government intended to develop a system of regional mutual military defense pacts and combined military exercises with like-minded republican states. The second main item on the agenda was a mutual aid network for non-military disasters and events, with a rapid response humanitarian task force and development aid. The third main item was the development of closer economic relations and trade incentives between member nations, particularly encouraging products extracted or manufactured through systems of worker self-management or syndicates to support non-capitalist market activity, and to facilitate less reliance on global markets dominated by predominantly monarchist-capitalist regimes and associated trade structures largely favouring those powers. Under the economic pact terms, member states would favour import of goods produced in other Kiso member states with a timeline towards the full elimination of tariffs on goods and services from Kiso signatories, and immediate favoritism towards designated Products of Socialist Labour from member states. Special trade status for member nations under the Vespanian Exchange would also be discussed.
Outcome
At the conclusion of the summit, all of the major items were agreed upon save for the first. The majority of delegations rejected the Tsurushiman resolution in favour of developing military defense pact and military coordination, but a comprehensive economic rapprochement and a mutual aid network was founded under the name of the Kiso Pact of Mutual Prosperity and Solidarity at the conclusion of the summit.
Second Kiso Summit
The two years after the first Kiso Summit saw an increase in global tensions following the Hezekian Reaction and Onekawan Affair in the latter months of 2020 and the X-704 Incident in March 2021. Citing security concerns and the development of multiple threats to member states across the world, a second summit at Kiso was convened to take place in July 2021.
Purpose
The purpose of the Kiso Pact has been first and foremost to formalize relations between socialist nations both within and across various regions around the globe. The substantive content of the benefits and obligations under the Kiso Pact can be broadly categorized under the umbrella of mutual aid. These arrangements include relief planning for both natural and anthropogenic disasters, economic agreements that give preference to the import goods of member states, and solidarity toward advocacy of human rights, including economic sanctions.
Disaster planning under the Kiso Pact creates provisions for a variety of foreseeable and unforeseeable disasters. These include climatic natural, anthropogenic, and semi-anthropogenic disasters such as famines, fires, floods, pandemics, seismic activity, and intense weather. Mutual aid for disaster relief is typically planned through regional rapid-response task forces, with some events such as a possible volcanic activity including provisions for active monitoring, evacuation planning, and pooling resources to provide aid and infrastructure relief in the event of a disaster. In addition to active disaster planning, Kiso Pact regional agreements account for the general stockpiling of resources for relief.
The economic provisions of the Kiso Pact create positive obligations between member states to prefer imports from other states as "Products of Socialist Labour". These agreements serve two broad purposes. The first is to bolster economic relations and exchange between member states and to foster economic development while limiting capitalist involvement in socialist economies. The second purpose is to ensure that products are ethically and equitably sourced, and not the product of capitalist exploitation.
The third purpose of the Kiso Pact is to advocate for human rights on the international stage. This is effected primarily through joint economic sanctions, diplomatic protests, and material support for socialist, democratic, and republican political movements around the world.
Since its inception, the Kiso Pact was characterized by skeptics and geopolitical rivals of its member states as a military alliance. This notion has been linked to two causes The first cause was the request of the hosting delegation at the first conference that the agreement include regional military defense plans. Secondly, the assurances publically provided by other socialist nations to the Talaharan and Tyreseian governments during the Onekawan Affair have also contributed to public perceptions that the Kiso Pact was forming a military bloc. More recent events have reinforced this characterization, including a statement from Ostrozavan primar, Benedict Král.
Other socialist leaders have noted that general solidarity with sympathetic causes should not be construed with agreements with positive obligations. Under the founding framework of the Kiso Pact the member states have no expectation or responsibility to act in defense of a fellow member state in the event of a hostile military action.