MPs from the West Midlands signed a joint declaration attacking Labour's laxity on the issue.

ECONOMIST: The ethnic vote

Russia and the 15-nation EU are expected to issue a joint declaration on terrorism after their summit, at which energy and economic cooperation is also on the agenda.

CNN: Putin urges global terrorism fight

And just today, Indian and Pakistani officials were having meetings, and they ended it with a joint declaration that they wanted to cooperate on ending terrorism and combating terrorism.

CNN: Amanpour: Attack comes at crucial time for region

President Thein Sein, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the speaker of parliament's lower house on Sunday issued a joint declaration in the face of the deadly communal violence.

BBC: Burma communal rioting spreads outside Meiktila

But the idea has also spread to eastern Europe and Asia and may even be reaching the bankruptcy-averse Muslim world (last year ten Middle Eastern and north African countries signed a joint declaration on planned reforms).

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

All they got out of the exhausting pre-Easter talks in Belfast was a joint declaration from Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, containing phrases that might make it easier for unionists and republicans to compromise without losing face.

ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland

The issue was parked by a joint Czech-German declaration in 1997, in which the two countries agreed to disagree about this aspect of their history.

ECONOMIST: Czech leaders wrangle about history, politics��and sanity

Today, by pretending that the joint declaration at Annapolis was a big nothing, Olmert and Livni are repeating the maneuver.

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