The Sôgmô attended MicroCon 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, from 23 to 25 June 2017, representing the State of Sandus and meeting with a multitude of Sandus’s friends and partners. The experience was the first diplomatic meeting for Sandus with several close allies, such as Saint-Castin and Aigues-Mortes. It was also a meeting again with some nations Sandus has already encountered, such as the Aerican Empire and Molossia.
The Sôgmô was received at the Ruritanian Empire’s embassy in Atlanta, Georgia, for a reception with Queen Anastasia of Ruritania before the conference. There, the Sôgmô met with and encountered a variety of micronationalists.
At the conference, the Sôgmô listened to a variety of presentations on micronationalism in general and specific micronational projects, before það presented þess own paper on the Sandum constitution. The presentation, which focused on Sandum history and the State’s constitutional development, was well-received and was applauded by many heads of state and of government. A multitude of conference attendees approached the Sôgmô to congratulate það and to ask for þess intellectual opinion on a broad range of topics.
The Sôgmô then met with a variety of micronationalists at a gala held that evening.
All attendees considered the meeting a huge success for intermicronational diplomacy and, in particular, that it was a wonderful diplomatic success for environmentalist and French-speaking micronations. A large section of the micronations which attended, perhaps even a majority, could speak French—and it was rather frequent that individual groups would join together from a variety of different nations to discuss certain matters in French. In addition, attendees were asked to sign th 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, which was also signed at the previous conference in 2015. In addition the Micronational Declaration on Ecological Stewardship, which the Sôgmô signed for the State of Sandus and for the Kingdom of Überstadt as a social citizen.
The Sôgmô finally met the Prince and Princess of the Principality of Aigues-Mortes and the President-Minister of the Republic of Saint-Castin, close allies of the State of Sandus in the MicroFrancophonie.
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