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Chapter 8: Specifics of the Organization of the World Commonwealth - Part 2
8.6. Entente institution of the World Commonwealth
The World Commonwealth is a global governing organization that transcends the system of exclusive sovereign states, unlike the United Nations and the European Union, which are merely federations of sovereign states. Therefore, diplomatic activities based on negotiations between exclusive sovereign states that pursue their national interests first will no longer exist.
More specifically, the traditional method of sovereign states exchanging diplomats with diplomatic privileges to conduct diplomatic activities will be abolished. In addition, the diplomatic agency (Ministry or Department of Foreign Affairs) that manages the diplomatic affairs of sovereign states and sends diplomats will also be abolished.
Instead, the World Commonwealth will be used as a large framework, and various political and economic adjustments - ententes - will be carried out within it between the World Commonwealth and its constituent Zones, or between the constituent Zones on either side of the World Commonwealth. The ententes referred to here has a different meaning from the historical term such as the "Triple Entente," and refers to the various adjustment-oriented consultation activities themselves.
To mediate such entente activities, a representative body of the World Commonwealth (World Commonwealth Delegation) is established in each Zone. The Delegation is composed of one resident representative, two deputies, and a secretariat, and is responsible for negotiations between the World Commonwealth and the constituent Zones. The resident representative is appointed by the First Secretary of the World Commonwealth from among the natives of the Zone, and serves as the First Secretary's representative.
However, since the resident representative of the World Commonwealth does not have diplomatic privileges, if he or she commits an illegal act in the Zone, it will be dealt with according to the law of that Zone, but in order to detain him or her, the consent of the Zonal Commons' Convention Entente Committee, described below, is required.
The Zonal Commons' Convention Entente Committee is the committee that serves as the entente point for the World Commonwealth. This committee is established as a standing committee of the Commons' Convention and has a nature equivalent to the current Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, but its duties are the very negotiations themselves, and it has a complex mission that is, so to speak, a combination of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ministry or Department of Foreign Affairs. The Chair of the Commons' Convention Entente Committee has a status comparable to that of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
As we saw in the previous article, each Zone will send an ambassador-delegate to the World Commonwealth, but no representative institution for each Zone will be established in the World Commonwealth. This is the exact opposite of the current system in which member countries establish Permanent Missions in the United Nations. However, small offices will be established to handle the affairs of the Zone's ambassador-delegate.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
