The joint declaration, finalized in Vienna on Nov. 14, affirmed that its signatories "are no longer adversaries" and that "none of their weapons will ever be used except in self-defence".

On August 3, representatives from the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia met in Bratislava and signed the Bratislava Declaration, which declaration affirmed unshakable fidelity to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and declared an implacable struggle against "bourgeois" ideology and all "anti-socialist" forces.

These, the declaration affirmed, were issues that transcended national borders, and hence required the involvement of international organisations, such as the Commonwealth, to coordinate strategies to solve them.

Statement on Terrorists Touching two other subjects, the political declaration also affirmed the seven nations' determination to "stabilize military competition between East and West at lower levels of arms" and committed them "to the principle of making no concessions to terrorists or their sponsors."

The declaration affirmed unshakable fidelity to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and declared an implacable struggle against bourgeois ideology and all "antisocialist" forces.

The declaration the summit meeting plans to adopt will affirm the central role of the United Nations in preserving peace and security in the world as cold-war tensions disappear.

The declaration affirmed that all men have equal and inalienable rights and that the purpose of government is to preserve those rights.

While some individual Palestinians may persist in not recognizing the legitimacy of Israel, Mr. Arafat's declaration, which has not been withdrawn, as well as the subsequent statements and behavior of other Palestinian leaders, have consistently affirmed the right of Israel to exist, explicitly and implicitly.