The Israelis know that they will be heavily, indeed humiliatingly, outvoted in the General Assembly.
He's planning to schedule the come-up for debate in the General Assembly early this year.
In the past, Taipei has gathered about 15 supporters in the General Assembly for such petitions.
Unless America pays its debts, it risks losing its vote in the General Assembly.
And without the backing of leading European democracies, an enhanced Palestinian status in the General Assembly would look empty.
But the Palestinians have rejected her advice, in part because they doubt she can deliver all 27 EU votes in the General Assembly.
Snow, who often voted with the Republicans, was considered one of the most conservative Democrats in the General Assembly, and his record reflected the views of his constituents.
And the major topic of discussion coming up later in the month of September at the UN, in the General Assembly, was going to be defamation of religion.
What awaits Wilders in the Netherlands may be a harbinger of what will happen if a nonbinding Dec. 18 U.N. resolution, passed by a strong majority in the General Assembly, becomes international law.
With money now flowing into the world body, Holbrooke said the U.S. has retained its vote in the General Assembly -- which it nearly lost -- and regained its seat on the Budget Committee.
When talking to former US secretary of state Colin Powell and others last week he certainly made the assumption that this issue would play out in the General Assembly rather than the Security Council.
In New Jersey, the Reform Party hopes to succeed with a suit challenging a requirement that prospective political parties get 10% of the cumulative vote in the General Assembly elections before they can be designated as political parties in the state.
But in something of a dry run for the expected debate and decision on statehood in the UN General Assembly, the UN's cultural agency, UNESCO, voted on October 31st to admit Palestine as a full member.
For millions of Americans, the spectacle of buffoonery and bombast served up last week in New York by the UN General Assembly - in particular, the appearances there of despots like Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - raised anew questions about the legitimacy and utility of the United Nations.
Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega, used the stage in the UN General Assembly to launch an attack against "imperialist global capitalism".
But in the 2006 General Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with human rights, South Africa abstained on a resolution criticising Myanmar.
Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly.
The Convention was adopted in 2005 from the 33rd General Assembly of the member states of UNESCO and was put in force in 2007.
Meanwhile, the Republican leadership in the North Carolina General Assembly is raising issues that are sure to galvanize the conservative vote in the 2012 Presidential race, such as a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
Although the panel's proposals, largely endorsed by Mr Annan in his own report to the General Assembly in March, had been partially watered down during earlier negotiations, their essence had been preserved.
Participate actively in the organization and monitoring of General Assembly procedures and in the various working groups occasionally established by the USLS Board of Management.
November 2nd was the night when, for the first time, Republicans took control of the General Assembly in the Old Dominion.
Her Highness Sheikha Moza was the first to raise the flag on this, and the conference on this question, held in the margins of the UN General Assembly on 21 September, was important for catalysing further international action.
We are likely to be treated to another example of Obama's staggering national security disinformation campaign in connection with the UN General Assembly meetings in New York this week.
It is a central part of the Windhoek Declaration which was adopted at the meeting, and which was also endorsed by the UNESCO General Assembly in the same year.
Meanwhile, the UNESCO-IHP's Internationally Shared Waters Resource Management programme (ISARM) has assisted the United Nations in drafting the first international law on transboundary aquifers, due to be discussed in October during the UN General Assembly.
In December, the UN General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution on ending female genital mutilation, and in March, the Commission on the Status of Women ended its annual session by adopting strongly agreed conclusions to prevent and end violence against girls and women.
By all accounts, that phase will culminate in September at the UN General Assembly's annual conclave in New York.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Richard Goldstone and Palestinian statehood
The GOP vice presidential candidate specifically blamed President Obama for not coming through on what seemed like a campaign promise in 2008 to keep the General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wis.
FORBES: 'Gotcha!' On Ryan's GM-Plant Remark Ignores His Real Point
Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy himself addresses the General Assembly right after Obama, and they will certainly have a chance to speak together in the cozy waiting area just behind the General Assembly podium.
应用推荐