A treaty often takes the form of a contract, but it may be a joint declaration or an exchange of notes (as in the case of the Rush-Bagot Agreement between the United States and Great Britain in 1817 for mutual disarmament on the Great Lakes).
The upshot was a joint declaration in which EFTA members committed themselves to "coordinate their action and remain united throughout the negotiations". The second crisis occurred in October 1964, when, to shore up the pound sterling, Britain suddenly introduced a surcharge of 15percentt on all its industrial imports—an act that was in violation of the treaty.
All they got out of the exhausting pre-Easter talks in Belfast was a joint declaration from Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, containing phrases that might make it easier for unionists and republicans to compromise without losing face.At present, it is the republican side that looks in more danger of losing face.
But even they wonder how they can trust Mr Abbas's ramshackle Palestinian Authority to police a state when it has already lost Gaza to the rocket-firing rejectionists of Hamas and might well lose the West Bank too.In the absence of a pre-Annapolis meeting of minds, America has therefore moved to Plan B. There may still be a joint declaration, but it will be vague.
Indian and Pakistani officials spent most of Monday drafting and redrafting what was supposed to be a joint declaration with enough weighty commitments to give momentum to a new peace process.
Morch was acting as one of the chief negotiators for UNICEF in a meeting in Armenia in 1986, from which there was to be a joint declaration.
While Germany is keen on a joint declaration on data protection, France is urgent to move towards establishing a European public prosecutors' office that would crack down on financial crimes against the interests of the European Union, such as tax evasion.
While I have heard through the D.C. grapevine that the Palestinians are depressed after being cajoled into signing a joint declaration, they are hopeful and semi-confident that Bush's speech on Tuesday at the session will offer some greater specificity on his vision of various "final status" issues.
Their views were filed as a joint declaration and later as a friend-of-the court brief in lawsuits challenging the original order and subsequent revisions, and was cited by almost every federal judge who enjoined the ban.
The main communique of the conference was accompanied by a joint declaration guaranteeing the postwar restoration of Iran.
