Up to this point, FEMA has established rules around the disaster declaration process, assistance programs, and other aspects of federal assistance to meet the needs of state governments and individuals in those states.

WHITEHOUSE: Getting It Right for Indian Country

UNESCO-IOC is participating in the review process of the declaration and will have an active role in the Yeosu Declaration Forum in August 2012.

UNESCO: The Living Ocean and Coast: EXPO 2012 Yeosu Korea

The so-called Laeken declaration of December 2001, which launched the process of writing a new constitution to replace the existing treaties, talked of popular concerns about too many powers being exercised at European rather than national level, about the lack of democratic scrutiny, and about European institutions and practices being rigid and hard to understand.

ECONOMIST: European Union

Some of the most important rights in the Declaration are the right to participate in the decision-making process and the right to be consulted on important matters relating to indigenous peoples.

FORBES: U.S. Backed Declaration Could Have a Big Impact in Indian Country

He'll also discuss the negotiations surrounding the strategic partnership declaration between the United States and Afghanistan and our alignment on the political process in Afghanistan as we head to some important conferences later this year in Istanbul and Bonn.

WHITEHOUSE: Aboard Air Force One, En Route New York, New York