But reading past the tributes to Nazarbayev's "outstanding service", the declaration's final paragraph calls for renaming the capital and other important facilities across the country after theleader of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Those documents that are new do not seem to contribute to the resolution of outstanding questions.... Comparisons between the Iraqi Declaration and earlier full, final and complete declarations have shown several cases of inconsistencies in terms of numbers declared.
The draft resolution "notes with the most serious concern" the lapses in Iran's past declarations and "deplores" the country's failure to resolve all outstanding questions.
The vast majority of these deaths occur in developing countries and this burden motivated world leaders to formulate the millennium declaration, which has as outstanding targets the reduction of maternal and infant mortality in global scale.
Over the past year and a half the Iranians have repeatedly made declarations that they would answer outstanding questions within a week, but each of those deadlines has passed with only partial answers offered.
In an outstanding show of support, 51 states endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, expressing broad political support for the protection and continuation of education during conflict and commitment towards implementation of the Guidelines.
Its 12,000-page declaration a month later did not answer any of Mr Blix's outstanding questions.
Since Al-Thani's defiant declaration, Málaga has been scrambling to deal with unpaid wages and outstanding debts, and has had no option but to sell its most valuable assets to stay afloat.
He complained that the 12,000-page Iraqi declaration does not seem to contain new evidence that would eliminate outstanding questions.Given more time, will Messrs Blix and ElBaradei find anything more dramatic?
The declaration of Gaudí's works as World Heritage aims to recognise his outstanding universal value.
And as Dr El-Baradei reported, Iraq's declaration of December 7: "Did not provide any new information relevant to certain questions that have been outstanding since 1998".
