Your Excellency:
We take pleasure in enclosing an article from today's New York Times concerning your courageous opposition to the continued presence of U.S. military bases on Okinawa.
Also enclosed is a complementary copy of the latest edition of World Citizen News, the official organ of our global government.
In its previous issue (Aug./Sept. 1995), we reprinted the "Mundialization Manifesto," an historic document adopted on June 22, 1995, by the World Council for Mundialization. The council's main office is in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. At that June meeting, Hideaki Kuwabara, chairman of the World Council for Mundialization, recounted the history of mundialization from its beginnings in France in 1949 to the present.
Okinawa, surrounded by the earth's ocean and having also a cosmopolitan ethnic character, is an appropriate candidate for mundialization. We append such mundialization declarations from the states of Minnesota and Iowa in the United States as well as from the city of Burlington, Vermont.
While mundialization implies no renunciation of any lesser affiliation, the recognition and expression of Okinawa's place in the world is a positive and dynamic right of people who, by definition, are indeed citizens of the one world community that unites us all.
In looking forward to your favorable reaction, we are at your service for providing any additional information on this vital subject.
Please accept, Your Excellency, the expression of our most sincere and respectful regards.
P.S.-The World Citizen Web site on the Internet contains a complete section on mundialization, including a list of mundialized communities dating from 1949. Our address is: https://worldcitizen.org.