Such a goal is expected to be part of any declaration from Copenhagen.
But after he gave a further expansive interview to Russia Today, in which he said Blatter was putting the finishing touches to a "New Fifa" document, world football's embattled governing body insisted: "Fifa and its president disassociate themselves from any declarations made by Mr Stöhlker with regards to Fifa".
Early yesterday morning, Mr. Zimmer and Mr. Holt agreed to hold back from making any declarations until the results could be verified.
The agency, Dr. ElBaradei added pointedly, "has received no such notifications or declarations from any state since the agency's inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq in March 2003".
Disgraced and ridiculed, estranged from his son, shortly before his death he printed the plays with a preface in which he declared that neither Malone's refutation "nor any declaration since made from a quarter once domestic to this Editor... can induce him to believe that great mass of papers in his possession are the fabrication of any individual, or set of men of the present day".
Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the predominantly Catholic Irish Republican Army, has in recent weeks discouraged hope of any such declaration from the I.R.A.
And while I personally share DeLong's perspective on basic economic realities, any straightforward declaration from an expert on how the future will unfold (including from DeLong's intellectual stablemate, Paul Krugman, who as far as I can tell has never ever been really wrong about economics or, remarkably, politics) should be met with a dose of skepticism.
Negotiators are also discussing what form any declaration that emerges from Copenhagen might take and how to ensure that any promises made there are kept.
Administration spokespeople advised that we are engaged in a perpetual "state of war" against terrorism -- without any declaration of war from Congress authorizing the indefinite conduct of such a war!
"Any type of proof may be produced," Fifa noted, including "reports from referees, declarations from the parties and witnesses, material evidence, audio or video recordings".
