Arcaibh Press Office

[Maes]

Following a series of discussions in Ui Cenneslaig it has been agreed that a large scale military exercise on land, sea, air and in cyber-space will begin in the Alucard and Ui Cenneslaig in the coming days. The exercise will feature two opposing forces, one made of up forces from Arcaibh, Dal Raitha & Eigg, Ui Cenneslaig, Cantabria and Ruasliabh. The opposition force will be made up of forces from each of the four CNN nations therefore Morelander, Cenneg, Lodjain and Maori assets will be involved. It is estimated that each side shall include 10,000 service members from that nation. In addition a handful officers of the Heyran armed forces, having expressed interest in the work of the Celtic Arms Co-Operative, shall be observing the exercise in order to review some of the materials made by the Co-Operative.

The exercise shall last ten days and relevant notices to shipping and airmen have now been posted.

We wish all those attending the exercises well.

Qeen Eithne

[Maes]

The joint military exercise between the Celtic nations of West Ardia and the CNN nations has concluded. We would like to thank nations for allowing these exercises to go ahead with no disruption in contrast to other major military exercises. We would also like to thank East Moreland, The Unified Iwi and Lodja for providing the opposition forces and allowing us to test our forces against troops who have seen much more recent real life experience than our own.

In the coming days we shall be releasing a report from the Ministry of Defence on recommendations that have come about from what we have learned during the past week or so.

Queen Eithne

[Maes]

After due consideration I have today issued that our government follow the steps taken by our friends in Ui Cenneslaig regarding the arrest of Queen Aoife of Eigg.

In 3 days time our border crossings with the Federation shall cease to operate in either direction for as long as the Queen is imprisoned. We shall however maintain crossings via Eigg.

In addition we support the call for a 2nd referendum and while we support the use of East Moreland as invigilators we believe a Celtic nation should also be included. There is need for the world to see this referendum be transparent and as many Celt nations have called for the Queen's release we believe that a non-monarch Celt nation would be best suited. As a result we would suggest the Theocracy of Kaitaine be called upon to act as co-invigilators.

Queen Eithne