Given what happened in the 1990s, nobody in substance or in declaration wants to go back to that.
After watching the team de-plane yesterday morning, looking like a herd of hungover estate agents, I made a personal declaration to let go.
To give the Palestinians what Ms Rice calls a "political horizon" (ie, hope) this declaration was supposed to go beyond Mr Bush's oft-repeated but ephemeral "vision" of an independent Palestine and fill in the vital missing detail on borders, refugees and Jerusalem.
The open government community should expect ongoing announcement regarding new participants, the September 20th event, a declaration and all letters to go up on OpenGovPartnership.org -- but it's not there yet, and the @OpenGovPart Twitter account has gone silent.
Closing its statement on the proposed United Nations declaration, the Brotherhood appeared to go even further.
He has teased them again by reaching the semifinals, his quarterfinal victory over Feliciano Lopez heralded by Paul Newman of The Independent with the declaration, "Five down, two to go".
At Versailles, the king accepted the Assembly's votes on the Declaration, but refused requests to go to Paris.
But events over the next few days could well determine how far beyond that axiomatic declaration the leaders are willing to go.
Annalina begins her diary the day before school opens with the frantic declaration "I don't want to go to kindergarten!" Even outgoing Annalina clings to the familiar comforts of home, fearing the "Big School with big kids.
Supporters say the 32-foot-tall horse is a triumph, if only as a declaration of Denver's courage to go beyond easy-listening-style airport art that many cities use like visual Dramamine to soothe travelers' nerves.
