WORLD
PRESS RELEASE
FOR GENERAL
RELEASE CONTACT; 796487
February 1, 1989
NEW ZEALAND
BRANCH OF WORLD CITIZEN PARTY FORMED UNDER COORDINATION OF WORLD CITIZEN GARRY DAVIS,
PARTY CHIEF
AUCKLAND, February 1-- Under the guidance of World Citizen Garry Davis,
fifteen citizens of Auckland who had already registered with the World Government of World
Citizens and obtained their World Passports on Davis' last visit to Auckland two weeks
ago, founded the New Zealand branch of the World Citizen Party whose global headquarters
are in Washington, D.C.
The party has a history dating back to December 10, 1948 when the General Assembly of
the United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "common
standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations."
The actual mandate for the party derives from article 21(3) of that Declaration: The
will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be
expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be but universal and equal
suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures."
Davis ran for mayor of Washington, D.C. in 1986 and for US president in 1988 on the
party platform: "World Peace through World Law."
A secretariat has been formed and will meet with party members on the last Friday of
every month at the homes of various members until a locale has been found.
According to the World Citizen Party pamphlet distributed by Davis, "If humanity
is to survive and prosper in a healthy environment, a human and humane politics operating
from the world level with a dynamic ethical base is vitally needed. The World Citizen
Party is providing the imperative political vehicle by which the individual's desire and
need for freedom, peace and well-being in a democratically-represented be implemented in
the highest council halls of the world."
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