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Article: GENERAL ASSEMBLY MUST REASSERT ITS CHARTER-MANDATED ROLE AS UNITED NATIONS CENTRAL DELIBERATIVE, POLICY-MAKING BODY, SPEAKERS SAY, DEBATING ASSEMBLY REVITALIZATION
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 20, 2008
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The United Nations issued the following press release:
Keen to reassert the General Assembly's role as the chief policy-making body of the United Nations and apprehensive of what they saw as the Security Council's steady encroachment on its territory, Member States today agreed that revitalizing the Assembly was key to restoring internal and public confidence in the Organization as it faced the challenges of the twenty-first century.
During their annual survey on the status of efforts aimed at revitalizing the Assembly's work, diplomats in the 192-member body agreed that, more than 16 years since the issue had first made its way onto the plenary agenda, the Assembly recognized the urgency ...