could this small country really stand?
It is founded on a firm belief in liberty and non-interference from the powers-that-be.
It is founded on a firm belief in liberty and non-interference from the powers-that-be.
The tiny, 7 square-kilometer parcel of land, marked on maps as Gornja Siga,
it has a common boundary with Danube on the border between Serbia and
Croatia.
Liberland, victim of a border dispute between Serbia and Croatia, it is claimed by neither side -- effectively a no-man's land.
A Czech politician Vit Jedlicka came in on
April 13th and planted his newly-designed yellow and black flag in the
territory, declaring the area the Free Republic of Liberland -- a tiny
sliver of a country, bigger only than the Vatican and Monaco.
He tells CNN that the country will be
formally founded on May 1 and is inviting, through the media, the
world's heads of state to attend a formal ceremony marking the
presumptive nation's birth.
He says
that he will also invite 7,500 of the 300,000 applicants that applied to
become citizens of Liberland to the ceremony, where he will grant them
citizenship.
"I will grant citizenship
if they can make it to the party," he told CNN by phone. "It's short
notice but a good challenge, and also for the presidents (and other
heads of state) if they can make it to the founding of our country."
source: CNN
