For all the declarations of mutual affection, officials in Harare will be hoping that despite Chinese investment in Africa falling by 40 per cent in the first half of the year, Beijing is still willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in Zimbabwe.
But for all the candidates, the strident declarations carry some risks, as they discovered early this month when the American intelligence community concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, an assessment that suddenly deadened all the talk of military action against Tehran.
World Conference on Education for All, 'World Declaration on Education for All and Framework for Action to Meet Basic Learning Needs', UNESCO, Paris, 1990.
Yet, for all his declarations, it had seemed easy for him to let her go.
We learn that Alastair Campbell, for all his declarations of loyalty to the Labour clan, only agreed to help at the recent election grudgingly because he thought it was a "lost cause".
For all their declarations, Europe's leaders are still not taking the ultimate step that many analysts say would shore up the euro union: moving toward greater fiscal federalism, a system that would make Europe look more like the United States.
He appealed to Rome for a declaration of annulment.
On Monday Noel Pearson backed proposals for a declaration of recognition for Indigenous Australians.
The chairman of the supervisory commission promised to press for a declaration of bankruptcy.
The onus for a declaration and flourish was on the boys.
