Government ministers from the 34 nations at this Summit of the Americas, who have met here since Thursday, had not even agreed on a common declaration to be issued by their leaders.
The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, is touring EU capitals with the draft of a declaration to be issued when the 15 leaders hold their next summit in Laeken, near Brussels, on December 14 and 15.
As the news sunk in, lawyers and commentators pointed out that Mubarak and Adly will almost certainly appeal, and that in any case, a new President could issue a pardon (depending, of course, on the powers awarded by a Constitutional Declaration about to be issued by SCAF).
As the summit meeting formally began Monday evening, the nations still had no agreement on a declaration that is supposed to be issued by their leaders on Tuesday.
While delegates have struggled over the wording of a formal declaration outlining goals and targets to be issued at the end of the conference, debate continues over whether the resources should be concentrated more on prevention or treatment, on where the money should come from and on how plain-spoken the United Nations message about AIDS should be.
In accordance with an initial response plan, a Declaration of a Nuclear Emergency Situation was intended to be issued in accordance with the Act on Special Measures Concerning Nuclear Emergency Preparedness immediately after the incident.
"A new constitutional declaration should be issued... specifying how the constituent assembly is formed.
Starting in the 1820s, variations of the Declaration were issued to proclaim the rights of workers, farmers, women, and others.
In contrast to Judge McLean, Lee does not propose that, if a certain sort of declaration has been issued, interference with a white man's attempt to seize a black man would be illegal.
He said the UN declaration, which was issued in 1948, "was formulated by superpowers which did not understand the needs of poor countries".
Following a thousand-year-old tradition in Mesopotamia, Cyrus began his reign with a declaration that was issued and distributed on clay tablets, cones and cylinders.
