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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 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

Sixteenth meeting: Wednesday, 12 February 2025 (a.m.),
Room C, Geneva, Switzerland

- Invitation letter CL-24/67
- NEW! Register here! (Open to Member States only)
- Draft agenda​ 
- Official documents / contributions ​ TEMPLATE​
- Information documents (INF) (not documents yet)
- Webcast live / Webcast archives (TIES protected, for Admin Member States only)

Note: Fifteenth meeting - 30 September 2024 (a.m.): 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 live / 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.