wn/2/2003 Qeres — eNDsEDRTE BAPE ba World Service Authority 1012 140 street, NW Washington, D.C. 20003. PRESS RELEASE UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, bypassing diplomats and national leaders, calls for “World Citizens...to take action ...to preserve planet earth” World Citizen Garry Davis responds recalling past history with UN FOR GENERAL RELEASE conTAcT September 7, 2009 David Gallup (202) 638-2662 WASHINGTON, D.C.——From the Arctic Citele, September 2" the UN Secretary-General Ban Kiemoon made an impassioned pica to all world citizens. particularly warld leaders, “to draw an urgent attcrtion to take action immediately. preserve all what we can to help our succeeding generations o be able to live in 9 hospitable environment ina sustainable w Visiting research stations and meeting with scientists fram the Norwegian Polar Institute, 1200 kilometres from the North Pole, the 8th UN Sceretary-General from South Korea, was alarmed by the state of the local zlaciers and said the effects of climate change were clearly visfble and Of great concern In aleter dated 9/5/09, World Citiaen Garry Davis responded “not only in his personal capacity but as a spokesperson for an evolving constituency’ of world citizens throughout the world community ‘After recalling his 61-year-old history with the United Nations starting with his claiming to be the “UN's first citizen” following his expulsion from France on September {1, 1948 and entering the “international feritory” of the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, Davis revealed that “On January 1, 1949, called all those who agreed with the concept of world citizenship to write to me in order to be registered withthe International Registry of World Citizens... From World Government House sn South Burlington, VT, publishing office of the World Government of World Citizens Davis declared on September 4, 1953 following the registration of over 75,000 individuals throughout the world as World Citizens. Davis said The Secretary-General’s admission that the UN itself ix impotent to deal with a global erisiz such as envitormental warming, or even war itself, as admitted to me by fist president Dr, Herber: Evatt in 1948, should be «clarion eal to we. the citizens ofthis world, the real leaders.’ must ourselves evolve the enforceable world laws to cope with our common problems. We know how to do this on every social and civic level from municipal to rational. But time and distance have imploxted on us faster than our political brains can cope with the reality of ovr totally interdependent 27° century. As Stafford Beer. the eminent ey'verneticist has so aptly put it, ‘Our brains are conditioned to a vanished past” Einstein as ‘Well had warned us ufer Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "Cvery thing has changed except ovr way of thinking. Either ‘we will eliminate war oF war will eliminate us." The former Broadway actor and WWII B-17 bomiber pilot. (now 88). maintained in his letter to the SG, “In thot ‘citizenship. in goordialecties terms*, 5 the counterpart af "govemnment,” your appeal to ‘world citizens acknowledges world government a: well. Moreover, the halistic environmental situation we face as humans demands the execution of enforceable woeld laws alone cmarating from a global government rather t piecemeal national efforts which only hasten the inevitable catastrophe He noted moreover “that the 1948 United States UN delegate and chaieperson of the human rights commission, Eleanor Roosevelt, in her column, Mv Day, on December 25, 1948, after noting that the UN itself could no: create 8 world government. suggested that this writer ‘would set up his own governments! onganizmtion and start then and there a worldwide international government.” +*5ce www.worldservice/org/memor htm 30