FIRLLAPOLOGY

FROM THE OFFICE OF
HRM JOSE IZZAGUERRA

THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC OF THE LOW LANDS OFFERS APOLOGIES TO ESLO FOR ITS FRAUDULENT INACTIVITY

The Free and Independent Republic of the Low Lands, which Eslo had campaigned agaisnt for international fraud and inactivity, has offered an apology to the Government of Eslo.
In a message received in late August 2002, Foreign Minister P. de Kuijer offered a note in which he explains the events which led to the inactivity. The DFA and other Eslonian government officials have reviewed the note extensively and are currently deciding a policy to adapt.
As per a request of the "renewed provisional FIRILL government", here is a copy of the note received by the DFA.
Eslo will not repress micronational freedom, but it will continue to play a guardian role in the micronational community, condemning inactivty. The diplomatic campaign against this country was called off in July. Eslo recognizes that there are new peices of evidence to the FIRLL's case. Eslo expresses regret that this incident happened. The thoughts of the Eslonian government are with the dead 20 year old micronationalist. We hope that nations will learn from the devastating effects on the FIRLL and consider this when promising to throw international events.
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As one of the representative of the Free and Independent Republic of
the Low
Lands I would like to react to the statement that was expressed by
your
nation. In that statement you condemned the Firll because of his in
activeness and for "fraud". And I must say that I totally
agree from your
point of view. But the case isn't as simple as it looks. On the 23st
of
December we lost one of our 3 (we are a small micro nation)
secretaries in a
car accident near the Dutch city of Rotterdam. After the accident we
had a
lot of things to arrange, because this gentleman was not only our
secretary,
but he was also our friend. It took about three month's to get over
this
tragic accident. And we didn't want to think of our micro nation at
all at
that time. Two month's ago we started talking about the possibility
to
"re-launch our nation", and we are still talking. We also
reopened our
mailbox at hotmail, but because of the rules of hotmail, we lost all
our
e-mails. So we never received the messages you wrote concerning the
song
festival. I hope that you will get a little more understanding for
the whole
situation, and I as (secretary of foreign affairs) would really like
to
apologize to your nation and to everybody who had great expectations
of the
songfestival event. On this very moment we are (as I mentioned
earlier on)
considering to re-launch our nation, and we have written a
declaration of
re-launching the Firll.(see attachment) I have one thing left to say,
I
would like to ask you to post this message on your site so that all
the
people of your nation, and other nations can read this. I hope that
if we
re-launch our republic we will still be able to create friendly
relations
with your nation.

Yours Sincerely

P. de Kuijer
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A note of reply was sent to the FIRLL on September 1st. The details of this note remain classified, but Secretary Selfin can be contacted for more information. See micro-nations.org or www.geocities.com/eslodfa for more information.