- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Assembly Quotes
Words from the floor where every member gets one vote.
Most of these quotes point straight at the United Nations body, praised as the most representative organ in the UN system, where every one of its 193 member states gets a single, equal vote. More in the Change quotes.
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- Coup
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power?
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission - along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly - will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The General Assembly is a unique organ. It's the most representative organ of the United Nations, where all 193 Member States are present. Each has one vote regardless of its size, power, or wealth. That gives the body a huge authority.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020