During the ceremony, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who accepted the surrender on behalf of the United Nations, said, "It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past".
He signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on behalf of Australia at Japan's ceremonial surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945, and later personally accepted the Japanese surrender at Morotai.
In May 1945, Smith met representatives of the German High Command in Reims, France, to conduct the surrender of the German Armed Forces, and he signed the German Instrument of Surrender on behalf of General Eisenhower.
"Earlier this week, I told you that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had been jailed by the Iranian government after failing to deliver a 'document of surrender' on behalf of the president.
Gavin Long wrote: On 2 September 1945, Blamey was with MacArthur on and signed the Japanese surrender document on behalf of Australia.
Since surrendering power to a council of generals on behalf of President Hosni Mubarak more than a year ago, Mr. Suleiman, 74, had appeared in public just once: on the ritual pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are asked to complete before they die, being pushed in a wheelchair.
Seward hinted to the commissioners that had come to Washington on behalf of the Confederacy that Sumter would be surrendered.
Those who took part in the name of the Taliban were in fact people who had already surrendered to the government of President Hamid Karzai and so were acting on behalf of the Afghan government, the statement said.
British troops led by Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia Command, returned to Singapore to receive formal surrender of the Japanese forces in the region from General Itagaki Seishiro on behalf of General Hisaichi Terauchi on 12 September 1945, and a British Military Administration was formed to govern the island until March 1946.
After millions of refugees crossed its border, India joined the war on behalf of the new nation of Bangladesh and within weeks compelled a Pakistani surrender.
