At the United Nations in New York, meanwhile, France is pushing for what is in effect a security council declaration of war against Isis, with a resolution calling on members to "take all necessary measures" to defeat the terror group in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Still, it is impossible for customs officials to search every container, box or package entering every country, so the responsibility for security and import declarations rests with the shipper and the company carrying the goods.
Its rocket launchings last April and December "seriously undermine regional stability, jeopardize the prospects for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula and threaten international peace and security," said the declaration from the foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.
Mr. ElBaradei, whose own proposal includes a provision that narrowly defines the military's role guarding national security, said the declaration "really should be put to a referendum so it would have some legitimacy".
One argument that both circuits made short work of was the government's claim that the courts had no business reviewing the President's national-security-related immigration declarations.
In April, according to two U.S. officials, Germany (with France), apparently acting out of concern for sounding confrontational to Russian ears, went so far as to resist juxtaposing the words energy and security in a declaration coming out of the NATO summit meeting in Brussels.
"We hope sometime next week to have declarations on security that will comfort the Iraqi people," he said without elaborating.
Like nervous parents on prom night, Ms. McGuire and three armed security guards chaperoned the Declaration of Independence, hovering over it for much of the evening.
Mr Clinton's 1996 joint declaration on security with Japan, before he began the tilt towards China that culminated in his trip to Tiananmen Square, yielded a new set of defence guidelines that tightened American-Japanese co-operation a bit.
Following the declaration, Bahraini security forces once again cracked down, using rubber bullets, tear gas, and live ammunition to clear protesters from their main encampment in Pearl Square and from other areas in downtown Manama.
