At this meeting, the presidents of five Central African countries solemnly undertook to protect large areas of forest and to move towards sustainable forest management.
The second Millennium Goal, solemnly undertaken by the world's leaders, with our national leaders prominent among them, is that by the year 2015 — two Princeton student generations from today — every boy and girl in the world will have the opportunity to "complete a full course of primary education". If that's the goal, what is the current reality?
Or flout the Kyoto obligations they solemnly undertook and admit to voters that they were not really serious about curbing greenhouse gases.In a recent British report on climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern said the European emission-trading scheme could become "the nucleus of future global carbon markets".
In the Rome Declaration on World Food Security endorsed by the World Food Summit in 1996, the leaders of 186 countries solemnly undertook to halve by the year 2015 the number of victims of hunger, estimated in 1990-1992 at 830-840 million persons in the developing world, 37percentt of them in Africa.
Indeed, at one point in the interview, he solemnly placed his hand on his heart to pledge that, contrary to his reputation in Indonesia, he has not abused his political office by undertaking business activities "at any time" in the four years he has been a cabinet minister.
From the first day it possessed nuclear weapons, China has solemnly declared its determination not to be the first to use such weapons at any time and in any circumstances, and later undertook unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states or nuclear-weapon-free zones.
And at the United Nations in May, the United States solemnly signed on to an "unequivocal undertaking" to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
Ms. Amador nods solemnly.
The archangels nod solemnly.
Robert solemnly promised.
