"It's time for world leaders to keep the promise that they pledged to the world".
All three reports say that the member countries of the United Nations have pledged to cut world poverty in half by 2015.
She complained about government ministers forever setting themselves targets that they couldn't meet - forgetting, perhaps, that she set herself the mother of all targets when, upon ascending to cabinet office, she pledged to eradicate world poverty by about half past six the following Wednesday evening.
Mr. Abe, who was at the official ceremony, laid flowers at Japan's grave for its unknown soldiers and pledged to contribute to world peace.
Organisers have pledged to showcase world-class music, theatre, comedy and literature in towns, villages and remote rural areas across the region.
As an international conference of religious leaders ended yesterday in New York, many participants, representing a wide array of the world's faiths, pledged to work for world peace.
Leaders of the world's richest nations have repeatedly pledged to offer the world's poorest countries duty-free, quota-free (DFQF) access to their markets.
Before the financial crisis began, the 27-country block pledged to lead the world in clean energy and climate change legislation, including the creation of the world's largest cap-and-trade market for carbon dioxide.
In a briefing Monday, the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, said Prince Bandar had visited the White House and pledged to protect the world economy from oil shocks.
Earlier this year he got his way, when the country pledged to become the world's first hydrogen-powered economy.This attracted Shell, DaimlerChrysler, a German-American car giant, and Norsk Hydro, a Norwegian energy firm experienced in making hydrogen.
