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

Overview

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 can be found in the Annex of Council Resolution 1372 (C15, last amended C24).

Meetings and documents

The seventeenth meeting was held on 20 January 2026
- Invitation letter CL-25/44
- Documents/contributions
- Final list of participants (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only)

The sixteenth meeting was held on 12 February 2025
- Invitation letter CL-24/67
- Documents/contributions
- Information documents (INF)
- Final list of participants (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only)

Feedback on AI interpretation during the CWG-LANG meeting
(Wednesday, 12 February 2025)

Fifteenth meeting - 30 September 2024
Note: This meeting was cancelled.

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

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

Previous meetings of the CWG-LANG

Objective
Participation
Chair and secretariat

To ensure the use of the six languages of the Union on an equal footing.

CWG-LANG is open to all Member States, in particular those representative of and reflecting the six official languages of the Union.

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

Chair: Ms Rebecca Mukite (Uganda)
She was confirmed at the 2025 session of the ITU Council (17-27 June 2025)
Vice-Chairs:
See: Vice-Chairs
The Conferences and Publications Department (C&P) provides secretariat support for the work of CWG-LANG.

Enquiries should be addressed
to cwg-lang@itu.int.

Key documents

Council Resolution 1372 (C15, last amended C24) on Council Working Group on Languages (CWG-LANG)

Resolution 154 (Rev. Bucharest, 2022) on the use of the six languages of the Union on an equal footing

Policy Framework on Multilingualism

Resources

Calendar

Event	Date
Seventeenth meeting Letter CL-25/44	Tuesday, 20 January 2026
Sixteenth meeting Letter CL-24/67	Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Fifteenth meeting Letter CL-24/43	Monday, 30 September 2024 *(CANCELLED)*
Fourteenth meeting Letter CL-23/47	Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Thirteenth meeting Letter CL-23/23	Monday, 9 October 2023