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Council Working Group on the use of the six official languages of the Union

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The Council Working Group on the use of the six official languages of the Union (CWG-LANG) was established by Resolution 1238 adopted by the 2005 session of the Council.

Terms of Reference


The Terms of Reference of the CWG-LANG are to oversee the implementation of Resolution 154 (Rev. Bucharest, 2022) of the Plenipotentiary Conference on the use of the six languages of the Union on an equal footing
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Meetings and documents


The sixteenth meeting was held on 12 February 2025 (a.m.)
- Invitation letter CL-2​4/67​
- Documents/contributions 
- Information documents​ (INF)
- Final list of participants (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only)

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during the CWG-LANG meeting​
 

(Wednesday, 12 February 2025)

Fifteenth meeting - 30 September 2024 (a.m.)
Note: This meeting was cancelled.​

The fourteenth meeting was held on 23 January 2024 (p.m.)
- Invitation letter CL-23/47​​
- Contributions/documents
Information documents​ (INF)
-Final list of participants (TIES protected)​​
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Webcast archives​ (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only​)

The thirteenth meeting was held on 9 October 2023 (p.m.)
- Contributions/documents​
Webcast archives​ (TIES protected)​​​

Working methods


​In accordance with Council Resolution 1238, the CWG-LANG:
1)   is open to all Member States, in particular those representative of and reflecting the six official languages of the Union;
2)   conducts its work mainly by correspondence;
3)   prepares a report for consideration by the Member States and the Council and for transmission to the Plenipotentiary Conference, as appropriate.

Contributions should be submitted to contributions@itu.int with copy to cwg-lang@itu.int.