170-2507 Gateway News Service- Gateway
An emergency meeting at the Foreign Office was called to handle the impending meeting on Friedland. The Foreign Minister said that he was interested in calming things down, in light of the "Completely overblown and misunderstood actions which have been taken in a complete misunderstanding of the policy of the Gateway Federation, which as everyone knows has no Imperial ambitions, and is looking forward to a peaceful, equitable resolution to this complete and absolute misreading of events".
The Foreign Ministry then had to disavow an earlier comment by Senior Deputy Undersecretary Helene Ekpunobi where she said that the "Neo-Barbs need to understand their place, and Gateway will not be pushed around by piss ant little third rate powers with delusions of adequacy" She then told the assembled press that the Gateway Federation was not going to allow colonies to interfere with the already existing Gateway colonies, and that the Gateway Navy was going to be told to enforce the blockage on access to the subsector.
The Foreign Minister said that he had gotten strict orders from the Prime Minister regarding the matter, and the comments by Ms. Ekpunobi were most certainly NOT the policy of the Gateway Federation, and that in light of her inability to accept that guidance from her superiors in the Ministry, and the Prime Minister's Office, she has been placed on administrative leave for the time being.
An emergency meeting at the Foreign Office was called to handle the impending meeting on Friedland. The Foreign Minister said that he was interested in calming things down, in light of the "Completely overblown and misunderstood actions which have been taken in a complete misunderstanding of the policy of the Gateway Federation, which as everyone knows has no Imperial ambitions, and is looking forward to a peaceful, equitable resolution to this complete and absolute misreading of events".
The Foreign Ministry then had to disavow an earlier comment by Senior Deputy Undersecretary Helene Ekpunobi where she said that the "Neo-Barbs need to understand their place, and Gateway will not be pushed around by piss ant little third rate powers with delusions of adequacy" She then told the assembled press that the Gateway Federation was not going to allow colonies to interfere with the already existing Gateway colonies, and that the Gateway Navy was going to be told to enforce the blockage on access to the subsector.
The Foreign Minister said that he had gotten strict orders from the Prime Minister regarding the matter, and the comments by Ms. Ekpunobi were most certainly NOT the policy of the Gateway Federation, and that in light of her inability to accept that guidance from her superiors in the Ministry, and the Prime Minister's Office, she has been placed on administrative leave for the time being.
