[u][h3][centre]Kingdom of Aontas[/centre][/h3][/u]
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	 [centre][h3][u]Foreign Office of the Kingdom of Aontas[/u][/h3][/centre]

	Law is the foundation of human society and the expression of the values of the nations which it governs. Legal principles define a nation-state's attitudes towards certain behaviours—where law is involved, the behaviours in question are nearly without exception considered negative. It is law's charge, then, to penalize erroneous conduct, in order not only to punish those who commit misdeeds, but to provide incentive for the innocent to remain innocent. However, law, being derived largely from the state's interpretation of natural law rather than natural principles in and of themselves, is often imperfect. This can be displayed to the greatest effect in the conduct of states, and their interactions with their neighbours; or, in the case which this publication concerns, their neighbour's neighbour's neighbours.

	It has recently come to the attention of the Kingdom of Aontas that the Grand Survaek Empire has produced a collection of documents which presume to display the legal status of the continent of Faresia. There has been no explanation on the part of Foedinei to explain how Survaek, a nation across the Vicarri Ocean from Faresia which has never held any amount of territory in any region of the Faresian continent, came to be in possession of such documents. Nor has there been any accounting for their legitimacy. It is the logical position of the Foreign Office of the Kingdom of Aontas, then, that these documents are of no legal authority whatsoever, and their release under presumed legitimacy is tantamount to slander on the part of the Survaek Empire against the Kingdom of Soroya. The documents are of absolutely no force or effect, and for any state to treat them with any reverence at all, let alone to consider them legally valid, would be a spectacular embarrassment for the government involved. The broad international community is privy to the attempts of forgers to illegally create false legal contracts, and ought to be doubly scrutinous when such contracts concern the boundaries of nations. Until an accounting can be provided for the origin of these documents, and proof of their legitimacy can be ascertained, it must be the assumption of any state operating logically and with respect for the principle of law to assume that they are scraps of paper.