David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have signed a joint pledge to tackle climate change, which they say will protect the UK's national security and economic prosperity.
The case has been further complicated by reports that Becker secretly met former group members in 2007 and signed a joint pledge to keep silent about details of the group's crimes.
Even the most cynical campaigners conceded we may have entered a new era of climate-change action in November when America and China, the two biggest polluters, made an unprecedented joint pledge to make concrete reductions in their carbon emissions.
In another promising step, the county executive, Thomas Gulotta, a Republican, and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the County Legislature have signed a joint pledge to raise taxes if necessary to close this year's budget gap -- projected at $100 million to $200 million.
Yet the same joint statement that included the controversial reference to Taiwan also included a joint pledge to welcome a "constructive" role for China, both regionally and globally.Indeed, far from attempting to constrain China, some in the region have worried that America has recently allowed it too much room for manoeuvre.
Recently, all of the UK's main political leaders signed a joint pledge to tackle the issue, whatever the outcome of the May general election.
Despite an earlier joint pledge to respect the "values of democracy" and the "right to peaceful protests," ruling party and opposition leaders failed to compromise on a solution to end the unrest.
The two countries put out a five-point joint statement pledging to work together on a variety of issues.
Pickles disclosed that sports bodies including Fifa and Uefa would also sign a joint statement pledging to fighting corruption in sport.
"We would like to see Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the parties we represent joining together at the next general election in a joint manifesto pledge to introduce proportional representation for the House of Commons.
