We are confident that, apart from contributing to transparency, openness and confidence, these steps to implement the Convention will encourage other States parties to follow suit soon by submitting their declarations.

Furthermore, it was deeply concerned that Chad, India, Indonesia and Lebanon had lifted the moratorium on the death penalty and encouraged the Philippines and Sri Lanka, which were currently debating the subject, not to follow suit.

A commodity only acquires a general expression of its value if, at the same time, all other commodities express their values in the same equivalent; and every newly emergent commodity must follow suit.