They should affirm their commitment to assist the Palestinian Authority and get the funds flowing.
Over the decades governments have continued to affirm their commitment to the 0.7% in international policy statements.
And not every couple, gay or straight, feels that they need to get married to affirm their commitment to each other.
At Friday Prayer, the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr called on followers to pledge in blood their loyalty to the Shiite saint, and to affirm their commitment to driving American troops out of Iraq.
France became the first large industrialised nation to ratify the Paris agreement only earlier this month, although a ceremony was held in New York in April at which countries were supposed to affirm their commitment to the international agreement.
Everyone who believes in and supports the democratic tide that swept Latin America following the fall of communism in Europe must affirm their commitment to monitoring the weak state of freedom of expression and democratic governance in Venezuela.
This week's summit meeting is a perfect time for Presidents Bush and Putin to affirm their commitment to the protection of humanitarian workers in the regions for which they are responsible.
We call on the director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, and all public bodies to affirm their commitment to addressing and eliminating intimate violence against human beings of any gender and to take care not to compromise the dignity and public understanding of any survivors.
This is why a body such as the Cutting Edge Consortium, of which I am a founder member, can bring together people of all faiths and none, activists of all shades, LGBT people and all who stand in solidarity alongside them, to affirm their commitment to human rights and the freedom of conscience, thought and religion.
The dueling messages were quite a distance from the political embrace Ms. Weingarten and Mr. Klein shared on the opening day of the school year, at Public School 53 in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, where they stood with the mayor and Eliot Spitzer, who was the governor then, to affirm their commitment to accountability.
The 193 nations represented in the piece will gather on September 25th to affirm their commitment to the Global Goals campaign.
