Because, as soon as I delivered the statement, I was accused of plagiarism.
Britain's ambassador to Iceland delivered the statement to Iceland's Foreign Ministry.
It was incomplete, to be sure, and it would have been more courageous to deliver the statement in person and take questions.
A pistol and a rocket-propelled grenade lay next to a Koran on a table from which the man delivered the statement.
Bassey delivered the statement to Ban Ki-Moon at the People's Summit, which Friends of the Earth co-organized and which kicked off prior to Rio+20.
Two young delegates to the Children's Forum were chosen by their peers to deliver the statement: Gabriela Azurduy Arrieta, 13, from Bolivia, and Audrey Cheynut, 17, from Monaco.
Normally, delivering the Commons statement is the big gig.
Labour has already paid its own homage to that successful campaign by stealing the Tory "bombshell" poster, to highlight the squeeze on household finances under the man who is delivering the Autumn Statement this morning.
The stakes are high for India's finance minister, Pranjab Mukherjee, as he delivers the annual statement of the Union Budget.
On December 3rd George Osborne, Britain's chancellor, delivered the autumn statement, the country's annual mini-budget.
