"I'm not reaffirming it, because that has been the constant position," Mr. Lien said in an interview.
The conference of 1907 renewed the declaration prohibiting the discharge of projectiles from balloons but did not reaffirm the declarations prohibiting asphyxiating gas and expanding bullets.
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But administration officials acknowledged that the United States might not reaffirm its support for the Cairo program unless the disputed phrases were withdrawn or modified.
But during a population and development conference in Bangkok this week, the American delegation announced that Washington would not reaffirm its support for the Cairo "program of action" unless the disputed words were changed or removed, United States and United Nations officials said.
If Vigneault does not reaffirm his confidence in Schneider, as Iain MacIntyre writes in The Vancouver Sun he surely must, the Canucks have found themselves in the same mess they thought they had dug themselves out of by choosing Schneider as the starter and putting Luongo on the trade market.
But Thomas V. Ognibene, a former city councilman who is spokesman for Christ the King High School Inc., the nonprofit that runs the school, said that diocese officials "let their rights lapse," when they did not reaffirm the 1976 agreement in 2006, as the agreement required, an act Mr. McLaughlin conceded the diocese should have carried out sooner.
They are looking to inject some creative ambiguity into "not reaffirming in toto"–or as Stewart put it, "not unequivocally reaffirming"–the Durban Declaration.
A new version must be: "shorter," "not reaffirm in toto the flawed 2001 Durban Declaration," "not single out any one country or conflict," and "not embrace the troubling concept of "defamation of religion".
