An Act Embodying Principles For The Defence of the Republic and for National Unity:

Be it enacted by the President and Chamber of Deputies of the Talossan Republic in Parlamint assembled, that the following principles shall form the basis of all policy by the Government of this Republic towards the Talossan Royalist regime:

1. There is only one single and indivisible Talossan nation, divided at the present time into two States, the Talossan Republic and the Kingdom of Talossa. All citizens of both States are members of the Talossan nation, as are certain people who are citizens of neither state but who have contributed to Talossa in the past.
2. The Talossan nation has existed continuously since 26 December 1979. However, the Kingdom of Talossa which was founded on that date no longer exists. The two Talossan States - the Republic of Talossa existing since 1 June 2004, and the Royalist regime styling itself "the Kingdom of Talossa" existing since 15 August 2005 - are equally legitimate successor states to the old Kingdom of Talossa.
3. Given the above, political unification of all Talossans under one single state can never be accomplished by one successor State imposing its legitimacy over that of the other State. The Kingdom will never absorb the Republic, or vice versa. The political unification of the Talossan nation will require the simultaneous extinction of both successor states and their rival, equally valid but mutually exclusive claims to legitimacy.
4. Given the above, the Talossan Republic declares as a non-negotiable precondition that any discussion of political unification of Talossa must take place in the framework of discussing a wholly new constitution and legal framework which would supersede and extinguish both the current Kingdom and Republic of Talossa; and that in these discussions every facet of constitutional and other law shall be open for discussion and negotiation, including the form of government, the nature of the Head of State and the name of the unified State.
5. The Talossan Republic declares that its preferred format for such a process would be:
   1. A negotiating committee made up of equal representatives from both existing States.
   2. A new constitution, provisional legal code and provisional Government for the unified State of Talossa to be agreed by a 2/3 majority of this committee.
   3. The framework of the new unified State to be approved by simultaneous referenda in both States.
6. Until the preconditions in Article 4 above are met, the Talossan Republic will not entertain any initiatives for political unification, and formally rejects any claim by any institution operating under the Organic Law of the Kingdom of Talossa to any pan-Talossan legitimacy, except where endorsed by an equivalent institution operating under the Constitution of the Republic.
7. Notwithstanding anything above, the Talossan Republic declares its support for friendship, cultural co-operation and free traffic of ideas and other goods between Talossan citizens anywhere, no matter which State they owe their allegiance to. The Talossan Republic reaffirms our respect for citizens of the Kingdom as co-equal and legitimate members of the Talossan nation, and pledges to defend the claims of our own citizens for reciprocal respect. The Talossan Republic officially supports all non-governmental efforts to develop a process of "spontaneous grassroots cultural unification", by means of the fullest cultural contacts between the two States.
8. To reinforce the consent of the Talossan nation as a whole to these principles, this Act will only come into force on its approval in referendum, by the means prescribed by law.