general assembly

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However, the UN General Assembly, where all 193 member countries get one vote, had never voted or passed a resolution along these lines.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Slavery was the "most horrendous crime that took place in the history of mankind", Ghana's foreign minister has told the BBC ahead of a landmark vote at the UN General Assembly.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity," despite opposition by the United States and some European countries.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

“I’ve never had the General Assembly aligned with me, and yet we put forward this ambitious agenda.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

He’d been elected to the General Assembly in Hartford, but he’d been pushed out of it by the Patriots for being a Tory.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier