The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal de Montréal, Québec, Canada, on April 5, 1998.
SAN MARINO (AFP). -- The small republic of San Marino could ask the UN to create an agency to study the phenomena of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the State Office (ministry) in charge of tourism in San Marino announced on Saturday.
Charter
A "San Marino Charter" asking San Marino to intervene with the UN for the creation of this agency was adopted on Friday by representatives of 16 countries gathered in San Marino, a landlocked republic in northern Italy, at the end of the 6th World Symposium on UFOs.
The role of this agency, according to its initiators, would be to verify, coordinate and disclose the results of research on UFOs and other such "extraterrestrial" phenomena.
Grenada
In 1978, The island of Grenada had undertaken to present such a project to the UN, but this operation had failed following the coup d'état which took place in this country in 1979.
The oldest republic in the world, the micro-state of San Marino, with an area of 60.5 km2 and barely 25,000 inhabitants, has been a member of the UN since March 1992.
