sentences:  The UNHCR reported that, in July 2001, the island nation of Tuvalu rejected, after serious consideration, a proposal from the GCWP to create a "Vatican like sovereign city-state" near the international airport in exchange for a payment of $2 million per year.In 2002, the GCWP asked if they could set up their world headquarters on one hundred acres of land on the island of Rota which is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States.The GCWP offered to contribute to economic growth of the country but Rota declined, preferring to remain part of the Commonwealth.