Antilles and the League of Nations
Issues relating to and surrounding the Antilles and aspects of the Cross-Sea conflict between the island nation and the United Commonwealth has been a subject of debate, resolution, and resources of the League of Nations since the 1980s. When the League of Nations was founded in 1939, the Antilles wasn't admitted into the organization due to its political status and the wider recognition of the Continental States in the American mainland and as the legitimate claimant as the "United Commonwealth" as stated in the New Orleans Accords that ended the Great War in North America. This combined with the repressive policies of Amelia Abarough prevented the Antilles from being permitted into the LN and required other nations like the Kingdom of Sierra to vouch on their behalf to have their voice heard. Starting in the 1980s, the Antilles would be allowed to send formal representatives to the LN and would be permitted and was granted the status of a non-member observer state in 2010.
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| League of Nations membership | |
|---|---|
| Represented by | American Antilles |
| Membership | Non-member observer state |
| Since | March 22, 2010 |
| Permanent representative | Martha Williams |
The Antilles had wanted to join the League of Nations upon its creation, but was hindered due to the repressive policies of the Abarough Period and wasn't until the start of democratization in the country under Eric Abarough that genuine efforts were made towards Antillean membership in the League of Nations and saw progress with the country having formal representatives to the international organization starting in 1986 and efforts towards observer status began in 1998 following the Saint Anthony Conference, but wouldn't be finalized until 2010 when the League of Nations General Assembly voted in favor of observer status for the Antilles. Since gaining observer status, the Antilles has been able to garner further attention and a greater role in the international community and geopolitics, while also causing new controversies surrounding the country's role as an off-shore tax haven, a prominent gambling and money laundering hub, and domestic issues surrounding racial inequality, civil rights, and income inequality.
History
Background and early efforts
Following the end of the Great War, the Antilles was left in an unenviable situation and was given the short-end of the post-war conditions. While hostilities between the American Coalition that the Antilles a part of and the Landonist International were concluded in 1938 with the Treaty of North American Amity, the subsequent New Orleans Accords had effectively isolated the Antilles internationally as its wartime allies were made to rescind their formal recognition of the Antilles as both a sovereign state and as the United Commonwealth of America as well as recognizing the Continental States as a sovereign state and as the actual United Commonwealth. When the League of Nations was formed, the United Commonwealth played a major role, becoming a permanent member of the League of Nations Security Council, while the Antilles was denied any form of membership. Said move had isolated the island country and caused a great sense of instability and unrest within the country with informal relations between the Antilles and its former wartime allies being the only way in which the country had any contact with the outside world with the Kingdom of Sierra and Superior often voicing the concerns of the Antilles to the League of Nations in issues surrounding, affecting, and/or relating to the island country.