Given the difficulties ahead, the World Health Assembly approved a resolution to eradicate measles worldwide, but set no target date for achieving this goal.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

In two thousand five, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution urging countries to plan for "eHealth" services.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The General Assembly committee also adopted a resolution on human rights abuses in Burma, which is also known as Myanmar.

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

"I believe I speak for everybody in this assembly when I say that the summit has been a distinct success,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But more than 40 speakers have asked to address the assembly, which could push a vote into Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

He said lawmakers needed to voice a position before Wednesday's U.N.General Assembly consideration of a resolution supported by Arab countries on the Goldstone report.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Speaking to a packed chamber at Stormont, the Northern Ireland Assembly, Hillary Clinton praised lawmakers for progress made in a long and often arduous peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

But in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday, Ivorian president Laurent Gbabgo confirmed that the elections would take place as planned on November 29.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Israeli and Palestinian leaders have accepted an invitation from President Barack Obama for a three-way meeting Tuesday on the sidelines of the U.N.General Assembly in New York.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

The comments followed an overwhelming vote in the U.N.General Assembly on a non-binding resolution condemning the 47-year-old U.S.trade embargo against Cuba and urging Washington to lift the restrictions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

General Assembly to plead his case. In a non-binding resolution, the General Assembly demanded that he be returned to office, saying he is the legitimate constitutional leader of Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure announced Wednesday that he is sending the family code back to the National Assembly for additional revisions to correct what he called "a few imperfections."

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

After their talk on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, Mr.Obama said the United States and Japan have a major role in working with other countries toward economic recovery.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Briefing reporters here, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said the "annual exercise" in the General Assembly obscures the fact that the United States is a leading source of food and humanitarian relief aid to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

While at U.N.headquarters, Queen Elizabeth met with U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who,in his welcoming remarks in the General Assembly told the queen she is "an anchor for our age" and a "living symbol of grace, constancy and dignity."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06