"Well firstly there are many differences between the two nations of Achkaerin and Rokkenjima including the way their respective leaderships work, look at the last few years the amount of time the two nations have agreed on anything is immensely dwarfed by the amount of time they've spent on opposite sides of the argument. However critically for this discussion there are certain laws and legal conventions in this country that would hopefully reassure you." Edward said handing Maxime the drink, a simple enough whiskey in this case a 2016 Midvale, the drinks industry in Achkaerin wasn't a huge thing but there were a few small and proud business's that did reasonably well.
"Speaking hypothetically if we got this contract and at some point the Achkaerinese government wanted to do something about it then they have to be very careful, because the list of circumstances under which the government may take such action is limited, we have in this country a long standing tradition of non-government involvement in the business sector. Yes they set the corporation tax rate, yes they regulate the health and safety and other such things when it comes to legalities. But they cannot tell me which contracts to take and which ones not to take nor can they tell me to cancel a contract without a good reason, we're talking here about reasons that are laid down in law and yes sanctions are one such reason.
However there is a very clear framework for the application of sanctions which basically boils down to a checklist of things that have to have been tried, other avenues that have been explored, it forms part of a graduated response package to various situations, so for example if we apply this to the Barnacle situtation which I assume you're alluding to, the application of sanctions on the issue at this time by Achkaerin is actually impossible because your client has committed to entering into talks with Himeyama that are being mediated by Bakkermaya, it indicates a clear willingness on the part of your client to resolve this in a peaceful manner and that's something that in terms of the checklist I mentioned is very much useful to your client."