UNGA lingo: A guide to UN General Assembly meeting acronyms, buzzwords and more
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is launching into its yearly meeting of world leaders, a week of diplomacy, dealmaking, speechmaking — and lingo. Here is some of the key vocabulary, decoded. For starters … UNGA: Shorthand (often pronounced “UN’-gah”) for the U.N. General Assembly’s “High-level Week,” when presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and...
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