Alma-Ata
Britishnoun
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Signed by 134 countries, the Alma-Ata Declaration set forth an ambitious goal: recognize health as a human right and ensure that the world’s population was healthy enough to lead productive lives by 2000.
From Washington Post
Imagine the relief that would suffuse you if, while nibbling zakuski with a group of oilmen from Kazakhstan, you knew to call their largest city Almaty — rather than its Soviet name, Alma-Ata.
From New York Times
So why had 10 national leaders rushed to my capital city, Alma-Ata, on December 21, 1991?
From Reuters
And another guest, now a New Yorker, traveled to the island to recall his youth in a city once called Alma-Ata — “the father of apples.”
From New York Times
He was the primary consultant to the World Health Organization on the international Alma-Ata Declaration, adopted at a 1978 conference in Alma-Ata, now Altmaty, Kazakhstan.
From New York Times
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