Examples of Assembly in a sentence
Furthermore, on two occasions in 1985, the General Assembly of the United Nations had explicitly rejected British proposals to incorporate the principle of self-determination in the draft resolution on the Question of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas).
In other words, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) had established the self-determination of peoples and the territorial integrity of States as guiding principles of the decolonization process, and self-determination was not an absolute right, insofar as it was limited by respect for the principle of territorial integrity pursuant to Resolution 1514 (XV).
Not one of the 10 Resolutions of the UN General Assembly or 39 Resolutions of the Special Committee on Decolonization regarding the Question of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) had mentioned the principle.
This meant refraining from acts that distorted the nature and scope of the dispute and from playing a part in the performance of unilateral acts by one of the parties, in blatant contradiction with what had been mandated by the General Assembly of the United Nations, particularly in its Resolution 31/49.
As it had been reaffirmed by the International Court of Justice in its recent advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, the General Assembly and the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization had a central role to play in terms of the means by which the free and genuine will of the people of a non-self-governing territory was expressed, where appropriate, including the formulation of questions submitted for popular consultation.