Garry Davis, who died July 24, 2013, in Burlington, Vermont, was often called “World Citizen N°1.” It was Davis in Paris in 1948-1949 who reached a wide public and popularized the term “world citizen”.
To break out of Edward Snowden’s Catch 22 situation, a world citizen passport was issued to Snowden on July 7th by Garry Davis, the president of the World Government of World Citizens.
Forty eight hours prior to moving in to take power in Egypt, the military led by General Abdel Khalil al-Sissi had given an ultimatum to President Mohamed Morsi to transform the government to meet “the will of the people” or the military would take power and impose its own “road map”.
President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation volunteered his country’s troops to replace the Austrian members of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (Undof) on the de facto Syria-Israel frontier on the Golan Heights.
On May 19, 2009, the Government of Sri Lanka proclaimed an end to the fighting against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan.
In May 1968, there were demonstrations in Paris, first among students, but as the month wore on, workers went on strike; gas was no longer delivered to gas stations, few people could drive and the whole country came to a standstill.
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