Back in 1776, the signers of the Philadelphia declaration pledged, among other things, their fortunes.
Israel's independence declaration pledged to "ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants".
The United Nations Millenniumum Declaration" pledged to "ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world's people," especially the most marginalized in developing countries.
Governments have signed a United Nations declaration pledging to achieve specific global targets in fighting AIDS and creating an international framework for accountability.
In 2003, African heads of state signed the Maputo Declaration pledging to increase their spending on agriculture development to 10% of their national budgets within five years.
And by Thursday, the closing day, many participants had signed a declaration pledging themselves to work for just that -- along with combatting poverty and pressing for environmental protection.
Later, the two sat next to each other to sign a joint declaration pledging to work toward peace and to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
Mr. Karzai also announced that Afghanistan's six neighbors -- Pakistan, China, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -- had agreed to convene in Kabul later this month to sign a declaration pledging to respect borders and not to interfere in one another's internal affairs.
Last month, Egypt's leading newspaper editors signed a declaration pledging near-blind support for the Egyptian state and vowing to ban criticism of the police, army and judiciary from the pages of their publications.
The declaration pledged to denuclearize "on the Korean Peninsula," and that was taken by some experts in Seoul to also include the withdrawal of the U.S. "nuclear umbrella" protecting the South and, de facto, the twenty-eight thousand U.S. troops.
