"The headquarters of the World Development Committee cannot be established on Bayer Federation soil!"
Those words were spoken by a Gefra diplomat during a private conversation. He believed that if the World Development Committee were established on federation soil, it would become one of the federation's branch agencies rather than an international organization.
These member states were less like member states and more like countries shackled by the Federal Government's international policies.
Wasn't that exactly how things were? The advantage of being managed by the federation would increase the influence of federation citizens within the World Development Committee. Some member states would naturally lean toward the federation, and in the end, whatever the federation said would go. That did not align with the interests of the various countries in international affairs.
Everyone agreed with this and approved the Gefra diplomat's argument. They also agreed to join forces and pressure the federation during the upcoming talks over the location of the headquarters.
What surprised them was that the federation took the initiative to make a concession on this issue.
"Our preliminary plan is to establish the headquarters of the World Development Committee in Sedolas. As everyone knows, Sedolas has always remained a neutral country and does not favor either side."
"This will provide an extremely suitable environment for our future administration and operations!"
Sedolas was only a small country. With the international situation changing so rapidly, Sedolas had actually contacted the Federal Government privately as well, hoping to strengthen all-around cooperation between the two sides.
There was nothing it could do. The times were changing too quickly. Gefra had dominated the world the day before, but now the federation was gradually beginning to exert its strength. On top of that, the Defeated Country alliance was accumulating power in preparation for the