page_title: United Regions / Forum of Regional Governments and Global Associations of Regions
section_title: General Assembly
hierarchical_section_title: United Regions / Forum of Regional Governments and Global Associations of Regions / Structure / General Assembly
caption_attribution_description: Español: El Presidente de ORU, Paúl Carrasco, en el tercer Foro Mundial de Desarrollo Económico Local (DEL) de Turín, en Octubre de 2015 English: ORU’s President, Paul Carrasco, in the third World Forum of Local Economic Development (LED) in Turin, in October 2015 Français&#160;: Le Président de l’ORU, Paul Carrasco, au troisième Forum Mondial de Développement Économique Local (DEL) de Turin, en Octobre 2015
context_page_description: The United Regions Organization / Forum of Regional Governments and Global Associations of Regions is an international organization, which aims to bring together regions from all over the world and represents them before other international organizations in order to boost a global policy of balanced development and territorial cohesion.
  The Organization's main objective is to seek the regions' recognition as major players in global governance. ORU Fogar defends that states' decentralization power towards other actors accelerates development; consequently fostering democracy by the proximity between these new actors and the citizens. ORU Fogar promotes a model based on a strong regional government, with legally recognized capabilities and competences and also budgets in compliance with those competences. Amongst its members, ORU Fogar has important European and Latin American regions, as well as regional governments from Africa and Asia.
  The organization acts according to two approaches:
  An integrated approach generated in the territories to design and implement in the field solutions to the new challenges that these territories are facing.
context_section_description: The General Assembly is the body of the Organization with the highest level of decision-making power. It is in charge of defining the approaches of the Organization as well as deciding over the actions that will have to be carried on. All the members of the Organization shall meet up in ordinary session once a year.
caption: ORU Fogar's former President, Paúl Carrasco, at the LED Forum in Turin (October 2015)
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