The Defence Minister today confirmed that following the withdrawal of Potenzan security forces from Zamosca, Polasciana has agreed to provide assistance to ITO in training police and prosecutors in the country, together with Talemantros.
Dmitry Lebedev, the Minister for Defence and Disaster Relief today announced that, together with Foreign Minister Yanaka, Polasciana had agreed to send “preliminary support” through the deployment of 1,000 security personnel. Some four hundred officers will train new recruits to the Zamosca State Police force and will also provide advice on a structured framework for law enforcement. The forces will be accompanied by over two hundred trained military police in an attempt to provide security for the mission – including the creation of three temporary camps, which will be shared by Polascianan and Talemantros forces. The first deployment is expected to be on Thursday, with the security forces arriving on the Zamoscan coast on early Saturday morning.
The force is being assembled in the port of Belév, in the south of Kresnovic state, and is expected to make its way to Zamosca by boat. It marks the first international action to be approved by new President Gennadiy Artamova, who said that “Polasciana should not shirk its responsibilities as a modern state. What we can teach may be valuable to the stability of a nation, and we should play our part when called on to do so.”
“The stability of the region is of great interest and importance to Polasciana,” Defence Minister Lebedev said this afternoon, “It is the wish of both this government and of President Artamova that we begin to build for a safer, and more stable future – we have a role to play in that.”
Dismissing the risks of conflict with Altai, the cause for the withdrawal of Potenzan forces from a similar role in the breakaway republic, Lebedev said he could ‘assure’ that Polascianan forces would be safe, and would have ‘excellent’ work conditions. “While Potenza has withdrawn its support for a similar role, we understand that the Zamosca requires a trained and equipped state police force, to enable them to secure the safety and freedom of everyone in the state. Our forces are trained to work in many different working conditions – but with joint camps being constructed, the Polascianan people can be assured that we are not sending our forces directly into the line of danger – they will be providing training to the Zamoscan police in well guarded and well secured policing academies.”
The withdrawal of Potenzan forces, rumoured to be due to the fear of an ‘imminent’ attack by Altai freedom groups, has seen the safety and security of Polascianan forces called into question by the opposition leader, Lazar Ulanov and his opposition spokesman for defence, Adnan Anadinivich. Mr Ulanov said he was ‘worried’ that Polascianan forces were being but in the ‘line of danger’ for a ‘needless and thankless’ task.
Responding to Mr Lebedev in the lower-house, Ulanov accused the government of using Polasciana’s security forces to ‘play politics’ – “The Prime Minister [Fedorov] has told us that he has allowed his two leading ministers to put our forces in danger, without any explanation of why we are flying across the continent playing teacher to troops who have been forced into their role. The Prime Minister must reassure our forces, and their families, that they are serving a purpose – that they are not needlessly being placed in danger. The Prime Minister must explain to the Polascianan people – he must explain to them how our forces will be kept safe.”
The Defence Minister continued to defend the mission, stating in the house that he believed “Polasciana is a country that will play its part in the future and ensuring a strengthened Great Sea community”, while he went on to attack former Union Party Prime Minister, Maksim Obelschenko, “The last Unionist Prime Minister wasted millions of Polasciana’s debt on high-flying missions abroad that got us nowhere, he [Ulanov] defended Obelchenko, why does he now cast aside our international role?”
