A declaration "declares existing law, with or without modification, or creates new law, ... [or] affirms some common principle of policy .... ([or may be] published after a conference of ... heads of State .... The contents of these documents are partly agreements to do or not to do something, and partly records of agreement upon a common policy....") McNair, Law of Treaties (2nd ed., 1961) 23*
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