The General Assembly resumes Yes, the General Assembly did indeed meet in its 53rd annual session, an event that some see as monumentally boring but which I find remarkable and reassuring. How we yearn for a quick-fix. Our scientists are beating their brains for the final unifying principle. With 6 billion people and over 5000 languages world-wide, esperanto has not taken off.
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I commend the pragmatic approach of a Finnish believer who is translating Elvis Presley into Sanskrit. Transnationals are not all bad. One Assembly must end before the next begins. Many U.N. concerns endure for years so that in effect the Assembly is in continuous session. The retiring President of the 52nd G.A. , Ambassador Hennadiy Udovenko of the Ukraine, made a sober and balanced analysis of the past year as he brought the session to a close.