In practice, facilitation fell to a much smaller set of people who had experience with the general-assembly process.
In what amounts to a quiet insurrection, the general assembly has devised its own process for the appointment of Ban's replacement.
The campaign also won the support of the UK government, which helped push through resolutions in both the security council and the general assembly calling for an open selection process late last year.
With the background of the current turmoil in the Middle East, the news that the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has, at the UN general assembly, declared the US-led peace process dead (Report, 27 September), the prospects of a two-state solution look more remote than ever.
On Thursday, the CSW panel will discuss the future of development, and a summary of the debate will be sent to the economic and social committee of the UN general assembly, which will be debating the post-2015 process, in September.
The application of the ATP assay on MSL demonstrates the value of alternative microbial methods for process/system control, optimization, and routine monitoring of the general microbial quality of spacecraft subsystems during assembly process.
In this paper, a general assembly model is proposed to support the evolving process characterizing the elaboration of assemblies' product structure.
As one must-see video explainer about the democratic consensus-building process says, the Occupy Wall Street general assembly is meant to be an end in itself, not merely a means to something different.
Susan Bailey Kings Langley, Hertfordshire Your editorial (29 February) seems baffled and a little disdainful about the decision-making process of Occupy – namely by consensus at a general assembly.
In Richmond, Va., about 75 people gathered Sunday for one of the "general assembly" meetings that are a key part of the movement's consensus-building process.
