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原文連結：To the citizens of EDEN


Today I saw a comment in the Greek press claiming that “Bulgaria caused the biggest and longest crisis in EDEN’s history” and many other comments trying to undermine the decision of EDEN to finally terminate the trial status of Turkey.
今天我在希臘報紙上看到了一些宣稱”保加利亞引起了這次堪稱EDEN史上最長也最嚴重的危機”等評論，而其他評論則使得EDEN終止土耳其觀察國身分的決議成為逐漸成為空談。

I guess many people formed their opinion only based on a log they saw from the last EDEN summit. And in my opinion this changed the focus from the real problem. I will try to compensate for this gap as I am the vMoFA of Bulgaria. You will then decide for yourself who is to blame.
我猜測有許多的人們是依據上一場EDEN峰會的對話紀錄來做出判斷。而對我而言這是將注意力從真正問題轉移開來的手段。我會以保加利亞副外交部長的身分試著來導正視聽。之後你便可以依照自己的想法來評論這起事件。

Let me start with the origin of this crisis. The crisis was generated by these member states in EDEN who decided to not respect the Bulgarian veto for Turkey and invented the idiotic concept of "permanent TRIAL member" in order to avoid the veto that the Bulgarian people expressed in a referendum! I am sure that most of the citizens in EDEN understand perfectly that no alliance can endure long enough if any of its members cannot use its right to veto new candidates. I tried to explain this in an open letter to the Greek citizens some 15 days ago. I will summarize it here again:
讓我從這起危機的源頭開始說起。這起危機禍首為數個不尊重保加利亞否決土耳其一事且提出”永久觀察國(permanent TRIAL member)” – 用以避免保加利亞全民公投的否決意願 - 這個白癡主意的EDEN成員國！我很確定多數EDEN民眾非常了解沒有任何聯盟在成員國不能使用否決權否決新成員國時還能長久的維持下去。我曾在an open letter to the Greek citizens some 15 days ago這封信中試著解釋過。我在此再一次總結：

Imagine EU and NATO in Real Life and there you have USA or Germany telling the Greeks - "You guys MUST forget about your right of VETO! We will accept the Republic of Macedonia in our alliance and we do not want to hear a thing about your feelings and your name dispute with this country!".
試著想像現實生活中的歐盟和北約，而美國和德國告訴希臘：「你必須放棄你的否決權！我們會接受馬其頓成為我們的同盟並且我們不想聽到任何關於你對於馬其頓的爭執和不滿！」

Do you believe that if this happens such an alliance will keep existing?? Will you like this attitude from your allies? THINK! Look at yourself first and then judge on the others. So the first thing that you miss is the fact that all problems would be avoided if EDEN was to respect the most important rule in any alliance – if there is a veto by any member for the entrance of another country – this country should not be allowed to stay any longer in the structures of the union. It is there in the EDEN Treaty but nevertheless we got penalized instead and our rights were even limited for a while 10 days ago.
如果這真的發生了你覺得這個同盟還能持續下去嗎？？你願意你盟友的以這種態度來對待你嗎？好好的想想啊！想刮別人鬍子前先把自己的鬍子刮乾淨吧。所以第一件被你們忽略掉的事情是只要EDEN尊重同盟間最重要的原則 – 只要有成員國使用否決權來拒絕新成員的加入 – 則這個國家就不應該被允許加入，那麼原本這危機是可以避免的。這規定就在EDEN條約裡，然而我們在10天前卻受到了懲罰甚至連部分權利都被剝奪。

And here comes the second issue – Bulgaria actually was the first to make a step back and proposed a compromise. Under these circumstances most states would play the role of an angry kid and leave right away if EDEN meant nothing to them – but we kept fighting for our right to stay. First we hold another referendum to show that EDEN is still supported by the Bulgarian population. Then in order to make everybody happy again we offered Turkey direct membership in GEA. GEA is actually the official door to EDEN membership. It was an official decision to recognize the Turkish trial status despite of the veto referendum. It was an act in which the Bulgarian government made the biggest possible compromise – the one with its people’s public opinion! Even though as a result of the veto referendum we were working for months to terminate the Turkish trial, we decided to stop insisting on it. Turkey was just supposed to show a sign of good faith as well. So in return we asked for two regions that Turkey does not need at all - neither core, nor resource-giving (like most of the 30+ regions that Turkey has)! These regions would boost our economy and for Turkey they are useless. EDEN (both high officials and several country presidents) also promised that if we do this compromise and Turkey rejects it – then Turkish trial will be terminated. What did the Turks do? They rejected the offer! EDEN kept its promise and that is the end of story.
再來的第二件事情是 - Bulgaria actually was the first to make a step back and proposed a compromise。在這情況下，如果EDEN對他們而言不算甚麼，那麼多數國家都會像是憤怒的小孩一樣立刻退出EDEN - 但我們選擇留下來繼續爭取我們的權利。首先我們暫停另外一次的公民投票來表達保加利亞人民對EDEN的支持。然後為了讓結果能皆大歡喜我們向土耳其提出了直接加入GEA的建議。GEA正是加入EDEN官方途徑。這是既可避開全民公投否決一事又能承認土耳其觀察國身分的官方決定。這是保加利亞政府 – 肩負著人民意志之下 - 所能做的最大妥協！雖然我們為了終止土耳其觀察國身分而努力了數個月，並且否決權一事交由全民公投亦已通過，但我們決定不再堅持此事。而土耳其也應釋出其善意。於是我們要求兩塊土耳其完全不需要的領土 – 既不是核心領土，也不會喪失資源(土耳其30+的領土大多如此(註)) - 作為回報。這些領土將能促進我們的經濟，而對土耳其而言他們也沒有損失。EDEN(包括高層和數個成員國總統)也承諾如果我們做出妥協而土耳其拒絕的話，那麼他們的觀察國身分將被終止。土耳其做了什麼？他們拒絕了我們的提議！EDEN信守承諾，而這件事就這樣結束。
(註：於Day1584，eRep時間00:51時，土耳其僅擁有30個領土。)

I am sorry that in the logs that you read the accent is not focused enough on these two points that are practically the reasons for the solution of this conflict. But I can assure you that all of this is true and I can prove it all with logs as well.
我必須在此為此篇文章中的實為解決之道的兩點聲明內之強調處不夠集中說聲抱歉。但我可以在此保證這件事的真實性，也有對話紀錄做為證據。

So please do not put the blame on Bulgaria. None of this would have happened if Turkish trial status was terminated right after the VETO coming from our referendum, or if the Turkish side was to agree to the compromise of giving nothing to get its trial status recognized by Bulgaria. All of these efforts were done by us – and EDEN finally showed the respect that its full member deserve. Sadly it all went too far to the point in which already EDEN had simply to choose Bulgaria or Turkey. Something it probably had to do 2 months ago. I am sure that if you are aware of these facts now – you will understand and respect the termination of the Turkish trial as well.
所以請不要怪罪保加利亞。只要土耳其的觀察國身分在動用否決權後立即中止或土耳其方面同意放棄不重要的領土來換取保加利亞承認的觀察國身分，那麼這所有的一切都不會發生。這所有一切的努力都是保加利亞獨自完成的 – 而EDEN也終於表現出對正式會員國應有的尊重。不幸的，這件事已不是要EDEN在保加利亞和土耳其之間做出選擇這麼的簡單。有些事情在2個月前就應該去做。我確定如果我們現在能注意到這些事實 – 那麼你就能理解並且尊重土耳其觀察國身分被終結一事。

Thank you for your attention,
謝謝您的閱讀。

Papen83
vMoFA of Bulgarian government
保加利亞外交部副部長
Papen83

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