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EU-US Summit Declaration: Working together to promote democracy and support freedom the rule of law and human rights worldwide
01 July 2005
Declaration issued on 20 June 2005 (pdf) It opens with the joint commitment to "accountable and representative government, the rule of law and respect for human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments: "Given the onward march of free market economics and the war on terrorism one might wonder if these leaders have ever read the 1948 Declaration", see:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (pdf)