It is supposed to produce a declaration against racism and a program of action to prevent discrimination.
It produced a declaration by the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, stating that Mr. Padilla was unlikely to cooperate if he thought a lawyer was trying to free him.
It happened to Jimmy Carter, whose early thinking about the cold war produced a declaration that it was time to pull American troops out of South Korea -- and an uproar that taught him how important an American military presence remained in Asia.
BEHIND THE NEWS The talks among North Korea, its Asian neighbors and the United States were stalled waiting for the North to produce a declaration of its nuclear activities, which it finally delivered in June, six months late.
In June the Bush administration announced that it would remove North Korea from a list of countries designated as enemies and sponsors of terrorism, lifting some sanctions, at least symbolically, after North Korea produced a declaration of its secretive nuclear work.
It produced a declaration of principles (the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development), a plan for the sustainable development of the Earth's resources into the 21st century (Agenda 21), and guidelines for the management, conservation, and sustainable development of forests.
The Cornwall Alliance – a coalition whose list of signatories could double as a directory of major players in the religious right – has a produced a declaration asserting, as a matter of theology, that "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming".
The closed session of the conference produced a declaration on ethics and data in artificial intelligence — setting out a list of guiding principles to act as "core values to preserve human rights" in the developing AI era — which included concepts like fairness and responsible design.
Also, there could be situations when a threat is so imminent that there simply would not be time to debate and produce a declaration of war.
That meeting produced a declaration and plan of action that are among the most rigorously monitored and implemented international commitments of the last decade.
