The Taliban had conveniently ignored the document also, but it was the job of the Qataris to remind them of it and for the Western players involved - the US, Britain and Norway - to make sure the fine print was being adhered to.
"We pros have trouble defining how we make these decisions, let alone teaching a computer to do the same," says Michael Redmond in Chiba, Japan, the first Western player to achieve the top rank in Go.
Their paper argues that "it is of considerable economic benefit to the UK to be the leading European - and indeed, Western - player in the Gulf".
However, the moment made a lasting impression on some of the youngest Western players to have made it through to the main draw.
Now, before the real negotiations have actually begun, it would appear that the Danish government has been trying to establish some kind of underlying consensus among the big western players.
The Western Australia player hit 125 not out for Australia in the first Ashes Test at Glamorgan's Swalec Stadium in 2009.
"By allowing a Western player to be entertained by it in the same way the creators intended their Japanese players to be entertained by the original – you're laughing at the same points, and crying your eyes out at the same points, too".
"By allowing a Western player to be entertained by it in the same way the creators intended their Japanese players to be entertained by the original you're laughing at the same points, and crying your eyes out at the same points, too".
The Russian minister suggested that the Arab and Western players had been too quick to ignore the armed attacks against the government.
A quest that would make perfect, intuitive sense to someone who was familiar with Korean fairy tales would not necessarily make sense to a Western player.
