Serbia, backed by Russia, called the declaration illegal.
"In America we have this thing, it's called the Declaration of Independence.
Analysts of the Labor Party called the declaration's changes mainly "adjustments in tone".
In an address on national television on Sunday, he said Kosovo was propped up unlawfully by the United States and called the declaration a "humiliation" for the European Union.
Then in 1975, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document called the Declaration Regarding Certain Questions of Sexual Ethics.
The United States ambassador to the United Nations, John D. Negroponte, expressed the American reaction there today, calling the declaration "an insult to our intelligence and indeed an insult to this Council".
Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, was quoted by an Italian paper as calling the declaration inopportune.
If you are scared of the tea-party movement, you are afraid of Thomas Jefferson who penned our mission statement, and, by the way, you may have heard of it, it's called the Declaration of Independence.
In the Dupaix contract, the clause was in a separate 13-page document — called the declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions — that wasn't even included in the closing papers and did not require a signature.
Hollande called the declaration a "historic" step forward, and on Tuesday, the final day of his two-day trip, urged Beijing to "discuss with and convince a number of countries known to be vital" to the negotiation process.
