Valedon has accepted Torenthia's proposal for a trilateral conference on Lake Varda, removing the last unanswered invitation from a diplomatic initiative that began after the Sunderland Interim Authority repeatedly failed to provide substantive answers about the lake incidents.
The acceptance is not an endorsement of Torenthia's account. Valedon's written reply says the meeting should begin with civilian navigation, cross-border rescue coordination, and procedures for reducing the risk of another encounter on the lake. Questions of responsibility for prior incidents may be raised, it says, but should not be treated as agreed premises of the conference.
Valedon also offered to host the talks. The original Torenthian proposal had identified Valedon as a possible venue and co-convener precisely because the Directorate said it knew of no direct Valedon interest in Sunderland. The reply accepts that role in similarly narrow language.
Caldris accepted last month, also without endorsing Torenthia's account. Its response said participation meant talks only. With Valedon's answer, all three proposed participants have now agreed to meet in principle.
What they have not agreed is a date, a final agenda, or the level of delegation. The Foreign Affairs Directorate said scheduling discussions would begin immediately and that any agreed conference notice would be published to the NRS.
The result is progress of the most diplomatic kind: everybody has agreed there should be a room, and nobody has yet agreed what the first sentence spoken inside it should mean.