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Alma-Ata
/ ɑlˈmaaˈta /
Example Sentences
The World Bank–IMF’s approach, however, seems to have ignored the primary health care systems promoted by the Alma-Ata Declaration in favor of free-market principles.
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.
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.
So why had 10 national leaders rushed to my capital city, Alma-Ata, on December 21, 1991?
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.”
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