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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 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

Fourteenth meeting, Tuesday 23 January 2024
Room C, 1430-1730 hours
- Invitation letter CL-23/47​
- Registration (Open to Member States only)
- Draft agenda​
- Contributions/documents
- Information documents (INF)​
- Click here to download the template for Member States contributions​
-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 (Afternoon)
- Contributions/documents​
Webcast archives​ (TIES protected)​​

Working methods


​In accordance with Council Resolution 1238, 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.