A/RES/63/306
31. Recalls that linguistic diversity is an important element of cultural
diversity, and takes note of the entry into force, on 18 March 2007, of the
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
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32. Also recalls paragraph 25 (a) of its resolution 61/266, and welcomes the
activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
Member States, the United Nations system and all other participating bodies aimed
at fostering respect for and the promotion and protection of all languages, in
particular endangered ones, linguistic diversity and multilingualism;
33. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report on the full implementation of its
resolutions on multilingualism;
34. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session the
item entitled “Multilingualism”.
104th plenary meeting
9 September 2009
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Thirty-third Session, Paris, 3–21 October 2005, vol.1 and corrigenda: Resolutions, chap. V, resolution 41.
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