The General Assembly, which adjourns today, has performed in an atmosphere of crisis and struggle from the day it convened.

The 1962 General Assembly has important business to consider.

There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance.

Laws are made in a 17-member Legislative Assembly that has all state and local government functions.

The National Assembly has 57 elected and 4 appointed members ; it is expanded following each census ( every 10 years ).

The UN General Assembly has adopted, in 2007, 2008 and 2010, non-binding resolutions calling for a global moratorium on executions, with a view to eventual abolition.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has been lobbying for Council of Europe observer states who practice the death penalty, the U. S. and Japan, to abolish it or lose their observer status.

The CLP has contested Northern Territory Legislative Assembly elections since 1974.

The CLP has also contested many Legislative Assembly by-elections.

Mordecai Waxman, a leading figure in the Rabbinical Assembly, writes that " Reform has asserted the right of interpretation but it rejected the authority of legal tradition.

In the General Assembly every member party has one vote.

The Legislative Assembly has ten members, eight of which are elected using block voting ( five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency ) and two ex officio members ( the Chief Executive and the Director of Finance ).

Throughout the history of the United Nations General Assembly, it is claimed by some there has always been an " automatic majority " against Israel.

The National Assembly of Gabon has 120 deputies elected for a five-year term.

The National Assembly ( Assemblée Nationale ) has 114 members, elected for a four year term, 38 members in single-seat constituencies and 76 members by proportional representation.

As of April 2005, the National Assembly of Guinea has not ratified Global's project.

The Greater London Authority consisting of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, headquartered in City Hall, has been responsible for strategic local government since 2000.

It has been established by tradition over a hundred years ; and although in common with other British anthems, it has not been established as such by law, it has been used in the context of a national anthem at official governmental ceremonies including the opening of the Welsh Assembly and at receptions of the British monarchy.

Within Conservative Judaism, the Rabbinical Assembly has an official Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.

The highest state institution is the People's Consultative Assembly ( MPR ), whose functions previously included electing the president and vice president ( since 2004 the president has been elected directly by the people ), establishing broad guidelines of state policy, and amending the constitution.

In the event of an affirmative referendum a Transitional Legislative Assembly is elected for one year, which has the task of writing a constitution for the Region, which is then put to a referendum requiring a simple majority to pass.

The General Assembly cannot make binding resolutions, only ' recommendations ', but through its adoption of the " Uniting for Peace " resolution ( A / RES / 377 A ), of 3 November 1950, the Assembly declared that it has the power to authorize the use of force, under the terms of the UN Charter, in cases of breaches of the peace or acts of aggression, provided that the Security Council, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, fails to act to address the situation.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

The Inter-Congolese dialogue, that set-up the transitional institutions, created a bicameral parliament, with a National Assembly and Senate, made up of appointed representatives of the parties to the dialogue.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

This influence on Cromwell did not last however, as just six months after he had created the Nominated Assembly, Cromwell dissolved it in favour of Lambert's more conservative Instrument of Government.

When the National Assembly was later created in June 1789 by the Third Estate, the clergy voted to join them, which perpetuated the destruction of the Estates General as a governing body.

The Greater London Authority, London Assembly and the directly elected Mayor of London were created in 2000 by the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Come June, the third estate, joined by members of the other two, declared itself to be a National Assembly and swore an oath not to dissolve until France had a constitution and created, in July, the National Constituent Assembly.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations resolved ( Resolution 106 ) that a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ), be created " to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine ".

The new constitution created a bicameral parliament, consisting of an Assembly ( Vouli ) and a Senate ( Gerousia ).

The new constitution abolished the Albanian Senate and created a unicameral National Assembly, but King Zog retained the dictatorial powers he had enjoyed as President.

The 275-member National Assembly was a parliament created under the Transitional Law during the Occupation of Iraq.

In the meantime, an Interim Political Authority ( IPA ), charged with reviewing the electoral structure in the country, was created in December 1998 and devised a proportional electoral system to ensure that there be opposition in the National Assembly.

Elections in 1947 for the newly created Legislative Assembly marked Mauritius's first steps toward self-rule, and were won by the Labour Party, headed by Guy Rozemont.

After the federation was reconstituted as a state union, the new Assembly of the State Union was created.

To monitor the implementation of Resolution 1514 in 1961 the General Assembly created the Special Committee referred to popularly as the Special Committee on Decolonization to ensure decolonisation complete compliance with the principle of self-determination in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 ( XV ), 12 Principle of the Annex defining free association with an independent State, integration into an independent State, or independence as the three legitimate options of full self-government compliance with the principle of self-determination.

The Assembly was created by the Government of Wales Act 1998, which followed a referendum in 1997.

This created the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The " Seven Principles " were created in committee and affirmed democratically by a vote of member congregations at an annual General Assembly ( a meeting of delegates from member congregations ).

A Representative Assembly was created in 1975 but dissolved in 1977 after demands for the elimination of government-appointees and immediate independence.

Besides, the Congress of France-the name given to the body created when both houses of the French Parliament, the National Assembly and the Senate, meet-gathers in the Château de Versailles to vote on revisions to the Constitution.