Yep, that wonderful day every year where we celebrate the declaration made by a group of guys in 1776 -- aka our Founding Fathers -- that led to the birth of America.
Another milestone celebrated in Helsinki, Bokova added, was the 25th anniversary of the Windhoek (Namibia) Declaration adopted by a group of journalists in Africa in 1991 that called on the world to defend freedom of expression, as embodied in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In 2005, on release, he signed the Damascus Declaration as part of a group of activists calling for reform.
The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, under the leadership of José Sanjurjo, against the elected, leftist government of the Second Spanish Republic, at the time under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña.
Especially notable in this respect is the Barmen Declaration, formulated in 1934 by a group of Reformed and Lutheran churchmen in opposition to the Nazi-influenced "German Christians".
This resentment first came to the surface in a declaration written in Boulogne by a group of magnates who were with the king when he was in France for his marriage ceremony to the French king's daughter.
Such an initiative would be similar to the Venice declaration of 1980, when Britain and a group of other leading European countries defined a negotiating framework for Israel and the Arabs based on land for peace (which turned into the idea of a two-state solution).
During the summit meeting, even as politicians heralded the new African Union, a group of ministers issued a declaration supporting one of their least democratically minded colleagues: Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe.
The idea goes back to the Rio+20 conference in 2012, when a group of investors drafted the natural capital declaration.
A declaration of intent was due to be signed recently by a group of countries including Spain and Italy.
