Following our nation’s principles of free trade and competitive economic development, Tolomakian Government is proposing the following Balkan Free Trade Agreement (BFTA):


Article 1, “The Free Trade”
a. All nations signing BFTA will immediately abolish custom taxes in all commercial relation with any other nation member of BFTA.
b. If a nation, at any time, in exceptional circumstances, whishes to temporarily apply a custom tax for a given commodity, it must first obtain the BFTA General Assembly’s accept, in accordance with the procedure specified in Article 3 bellow.

Article 2, “Membership”
a. Any nation of The Balkans can join BFTA.
b. A nation wishing to join BFTA must be accepted by the BFTA General Assembly.

Article 3, “Procedures”
a. All BFTA members are also members of BFTA General Assembly (GA). All GA members have equal power of voting. GA decides: new membership, trade exceptions, Speaker’s election and sanctions.
b. The decision rule within BFTA GA is unanimity.
c. “Implicit approval”: if a member nation is not answering an issue by seven days, the GA will consider it’s approval implicit.
d. The GA is electing a Speaker. The Speaker will moderate debates and count votes. Also, the Speaker will present BFTA position in international issues and will represent BFTA in negotiations with other nations or international organizations but it will have no decision power.
e. The first nation to sign the BFTA will be the first Speaker. The GA will elect a new Speaker in three days after a second nation joins. A new Speaker is elected whenever at least 2/3 of the members require it.

Article 4, “Sanctions”
a. A member that violates Article 1 will be automatically excluded from the treaty.
b. GA may decide economic sanctions against nations outside BFTA, if one of BFTA members requires it.


Naturally, Tolomakia is the first nation to sign the treaty.

The Thracian government is, in principle, in favor of this proposed agreement. We will examine it in the next few days more thoroughly, and then we will propbaly sumit it to our parliament for approval.

We like what we see, and we wish to be part of this group. We are asking Tolomakia if Yugoslovenia may be a part of this democratic assembly.

The Pepestonika Federastislava, as a member of the Unified Balkan Alliance, will place the recommendation for the inclusion of the UBA as a member of the BFTA.

Tolomakia welcomes Yugoslovenia in BFTA. Since Tolomakia is the only member of GA at the moment, this meanes that Yugoslavenia's reguest to join BFTA was accepted.

Pepestonia's recommendation is somehow difficult to accept. In our opinion, this treaty is designed for nations, so it would be better if each nation in UBA will join BFTA separately.

Yugoslovenia, we must elect a new Speaker in the next three days. To maintain transparency I suggest that you take this position for a while.

After reviewing the BFTA, our senate has entrusted me to express our content with the agreement, and to request New Achaea's inclusion in the treaty.

Yours Respectfully,
Alexis Caesaro, Prime Minister

We would be truly honored if Yugoslovenia would be Speaker, although we don't have much experience with democracy and all that jazz because we were a powerful communist state. With help, we think that we can do it!

The Thracian government has analyzed the text of the agreement and decided to become a party to it.

The Thracian parliament gave yesterday authorization to the government to sign the Balkan Free Trade Agreement.

Therefore, Thracia accepts the treaty without reservation and formally asks Tolomakia, Yugoslovenia, and New Achaea to become member of the Balkan Free Trade Agreement.

Demosthenes Yagcioglu,
President of Thracia.

We graciously accept Thracia's application to be welcomed into the BFTA! Welcome aboard...then agian I'm sure that I'm not the one who is allowed to accept you...sorry :unsure: !

Tolomakia accept New Acheea's request to join BFTA. The treaty has now three members.

We also accept Thracia's request to join. We shall wait for New Acheea's answer to see the result.

With sincerest apologies for the delay, we gladly give our accepting vote for Thracia's membership in the BFTA

The Thracian government is garateful to the three mebers of the BFTA for admiting our contry into this agreement.

On behalf of the nation of Thracia, I, Demosthenes, Yagcioglu, hereby sign the agreement and declare that Thracia is a member of the Balkan Free Trade Agreement.

Byzantinople wishes to join the BFTA. If you have any questions about our trading skills look at http://invisionfree.com/forums/Balkanic_Un...p?showtopic=191 or ask Thracia.

It is in our opinion that a new technology sector for the BFTA will only serve to strengthen it. New Achaea's vote is YEA for admitting Byzantinople.

YES for admitting Byzantinople

The Thracia government enthusiastically votes YES to admitting Byzantinople into the BFTA.

Ditto! :lol:

Thracia votes IN FAVOR of admitting USSP into the Balkan Free Trade Agreement.

Hurray!!!

Let the trading commence!!

Welcome to BFTA, Byzantinople!

As an initial transaction, Strantzadata would like to import 30,000 PC's for students. These will be distributed to high schools. They do not need to be cutting-edge.

All right Thracia, I'll make you a deal, 30,000 *Thest Mark III 2001's at 350 Byzants apiece.

*Not the best, but pretty good.

Ok, but what is the relative value of Byzant, say vis-a-vis the US Dollar?

By the way, to turn the Balkan Free Trade Agreement into a Free Trade AREA, in other words, to improve the movement of goods, services (and people) among the member states, we may consider inviting nations like the Byzanthine, Simeon The Great, the Bulgarite, and New Jugoslavia to join this agreement.

What do the other members think?

It is currently one U.S.$ to 2 Byzants.

I'm giving you a great deal on these because we have 4 warehouses stacked floor to ceiling with the things.

I agree with Thracia about th Free Trade Area, and I also think we should have our own sub-forum for the BFTA like the Balkan Union Assembly has.

Thank you.

Our companies and their customers are very ahppy with the products that we imported before.

It was my pleasure.

So far Thracia is the only country that has traded with Byzantinople.

We would like to buy 5,000 of the computers to test in our best state school, Belgrade State University. The money required will be wired upon acknowledgement of the order. :)

By the way, we agree fully with Byzantinople. There should be a BFTA forum. It would make the BFTA more powerful!

Yugolslovenia's order for 5,000 Thest Mark III 2001's and the shipping process has
already started. The computers should arrive in port in about 5 days.

Also, for information on our current inventory look at:
http://invisionfree.com/forums/Balkanic_Un...p?showtopic=191

The Kingdom/Empire of Bizanthine has voted in majority for applying to join the Balkan Free Trade Agreement.

If the move of Byzanthine is official, New Achaea's vote is for accepting the natin into the BFTA.

Further, New Achaea would like to inquire into a purchase of 12,000 PC's from Byzantinople for hospitals nationwide. Better technology for better healthcare, simply put...

Also, we are certainly in agreement that a subforum for the BFTA should be put up as soon as possible. That way, matters can be taken in an independent forum which we can monitor more easily than ever scrambling through Interregional Relations for past posts.

YES for admitting Byzanthine

The Thracian government, too, votes YES for admiting Byzanthine into BFTA.

The Yugoslovenian BFTA Committee unanimously votes yes on allowance of Byzanthine!

Am i in? how many votes left?

OOC: I think that's everybody! :)

OOC: Remember that you are the Speaker :) You should count votes and announce the results.

OOC: Oh, whoops, sorry. I think that this job is too fragile for me to control, and I think that a vote should be taken to see who should be the speaker, it would make this more democratic!

OOC: Werent we supposed to vote on a speaker regularly? Not that it matters right now, because Yugoslovenia's doing fine as is, but just wanted to double check

OOC: Come to think of it, shouldn't we hold off on voting a new speaker until we have a substantial membership. If we ever get a rush of applications (hypothetically) we would be electing someone every other day. Perhaps we should keep Yugoslovenia, and once everyone decides things are settled enough as a general, concrete assembly, we then revote.

Just a thought

OOC: Sorry I'm so late in posting guys!

Byzantinople votes YES on admitting Byzanthine!