A/RES/71/328
United Nations
Distr.: General
9 October 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 125
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 September 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.86 and Add.1)]
71/328. Multilingualism
The General Assembly,
Recognizing that multilingualism, as a core value of the Organization,
contributes to the achievement of the goals of the United Nations, as set out in Article
1 of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recognizing also that the United Nations pursues multilingualism as a means of
promoting, protecting and preserving diversity of languages and cultures globally, as
well as of improving the efficiency, performance and transparency of the
Organization,
Recognizing further, in this regard, that genuine multilingualism promotes unity
in diversity and international understanding, tolerance and dialogue, and recognizing
the importance of the capacity to communicate to the peoples of the world in their
own languages, including in formats accessible to persons with disabilities, by
contributing to the ownership and sustainability of the actions of the United Nations,
Stressing the need for strict observance of the resolutions and rules establishing
language arrangements for the different bodies and organs of the United Nations,
Recalling that Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are both
the official and the working languages of the General Assembly, including its
committees and subcommittees, 1 and of the Security Council, 2 that Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian and Spanish are the official languages and English, French
and Spanish the working languages of the Economic and Social Council 3 and that
English and French are the working languages of the Secretariat, 4
Emphasizing the importance of multilingualism in the activities of the United
Nations,
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1
Rule 51 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly.
Rule 41 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council.
3
Rule 32 of the rules of procedure of the Economic and Social Council.
4
See resolution 2 (I), annex.
2
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