Sentence examples for general assembly agreed from inspiring English sources

In September, the UN general assembly agreed to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.

The vote came one year and a day after the general assembly agreed to negotiate and adopt a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring.

In 1970, the UN general assembly agreed that "economically advanced countries" should make efforts to provide 0.7% of gross national income as official development assistance (ODA).

He said there would only be a postponement of Wednesday's presidential elections if three-quarters of Fifa's general assembly agreed.

Griffiths said the UN general assembly had agreed to work towards the creation of a multilateral framework for sovereign debt restructuring.

In November, a UN general assembly committee agreed a draft resolution to refer North Korea to the international criminal court for crimes against humanity.

He returned home accepting amendments that the whole general assembly could agree.

So we're saying basically that as the post-2015 debates continue and the reports come to the UN, the general assembly must agree that we all should give water to everybody everywhere by 2030.

Instead, bodies like the general assembly should agree to big-picture policy objectives (like "end poverty") and let the UN expert entities develop the goals to implement the plan.

[New York Times, Salon] At Monday's general assembly, protesters in Zuccotti Park agreed on rules banning theft, harassment and other crimes and asked its security group to enforce the code.

At the UN general assembly (UNGA) last year, member states agreed the new goals would be based on the principles of human rights and the rule of law.