THE Department of Labor and Immigration is gathering information about the Global Country of World Peace and its members.
Acting Labor and Immigration Secretary Joaquin A. Tenorio said Global Country members entered the commonwealth as “tourists.”
He added, however, that the background check is not an investigation.
“We are not really investigating, but we are getting more information about them,” Tenorio told the Variety.
Global Country’s “king,” Vishva Prashasaj Raja Nader Raam, urged CNMI officials not to believe the negative reports about them.
Tenorio said four Global Country officials were granted authorization to board for 30 days.
He said the 30-day limit was granted to them as “tourists.” He did not identify these Global Country officials.
“We treat them just like any other tourist,” Tenorio said. If the group’s officials can justify their further stay in the CNMI, the department is willing to give them an extension, he said.
DOLI, however, is also monitoring the group’s activities in the CNMI. “Everyone that comes in here, we need to know their status,” Tenorio added. (See related story on page 3)
Meanwhile, Global Country says it needs at least $3 trillion to carry out a program that will help at least 1.5 billion poor people around the world.
According to Dr. Emanuel Schiffgens, Global Country’s “prime minister,” they would launch the “Global Poverty Removal Program” to provide poor families an annual additional income of at least $2,000.
“There are 1.5 billion people living in utter poverty. We have designed a program to take them out of poverty and give them an income of $2,000 a year so we have to generate $3 trillion for this,” Schiffgens said.
“Our start-up capital would be $2 trillion for the…program. This is the proposed budget of the Global Country of World Peace,” he added.
Schiffgens at the same time said Global Country GCWP is not an investor but an “emissary of peace.”
“We are not coming in as investors on Rota. We want to (make) Rota (the) capital of world peace,” he said.
“Our interest is peace—it’s not commercial and we are doing everything to establish peace,” he added.
With their “infinite resources,” Schiffgens said they would provide Rota with whatever financial assistance it needs.
“Whatever is needed we will provide. Now the land is being surveyed where the peace garden will be built,” Schiffgens said.
