However, in 1998 when Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac signed the St Malo declaration promising closer defence co-operation, Washington was not amused.
However, once Green was sent a dossier detailing Sutton's past, Sutton was forced to sign a statutory declaration promising he was not involved in the purchase.
Instead, Arthur Balfour, Britain's foreign secretary, in 1917 issued a declaration promising a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.
Shortly after Scaf issued its constitutional decree in June, a broad coalition of the opposition met in the Fairmont Hotel in Cairo and issued a declaration promising to undo Scaf's move.
Anna, 31, a schoolteacher in Ulan Ude, said: "We were called to the staff room in my school about a month ago and asked to sign a formal declaration promising that we would vote for United Russia.
Like Pepfar, the grandiosely named Presidential Emergency Plan For Aids Relief: among its many bizarre manoeuvres, Christian moral superstition made Pepfar demand that every recipient of aid money sign a declaration, promising not to touch sex workers.
But last October, a Greenwich Village developer filed a restrictive declaration promising to turn over six apartments in a eight-story building at 159 Bleecker Street to the school for use as a student dormitory.
The highly symbolic move came as the leaders of the three main pro-UK parties published a rare joint declaration promising that Scots would quickly win significant new tax and welfare powers if they voted no in September's referendum.
The opposition Socialists and Communists made a joint declaration, promising to create 700,000 jobs and reduce the working week.Violence returned to the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya, with fighting on the border between Russian police and Chechens.
They write in detail about the attitude of Britain, where the White Paper of 1939 effectively rescinded the Balfour Declaration promising a Jewish national home in Palestine, and where members of the Foreign Office sent cables coolly discussing how to discourage "surplus Jews" from leaving Europe.
