The ‘Hindi @UN’ project was launched in 2018 to improve the public outreach of Hindi at the UN
New York:
As a major initiative, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted an Indian-backed resolution on multilingualism that mentions the Hindi language for the first time.
The resolution passed on Friday encourages the UN to continue disseminating important notices and messages in both official and unofficial languages, including Hindi.
“This year the resolution mentions Hindi language for the first time… The resolution also mentions Bangla and Urdu for the first time. We welcome these additions,” India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador TS Tirumurti.
Mr Tirumurti said that multilingualism is recognized as a core value of the UN and thanked the Secretary-General for giving priority to multilingualism.
“India has been cooperating with the United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) since 2018 by making an extra-budgetary contribution to mainstreaming and consolidating Hindi-language news and multimedia content,” he said.
As part of these efforts, the ‘Hindi @ UN’ project was launched in 2018 with the aim of increasing the audience reach of the United Nations in the Hindi language and raising awareness about global issues among millions of Hindi-speaking populations across the world. whole world. world.
In this regard, I would like to recall Resolution 13(1) of the United Nations Security Council, passed at its first session on February 1, 1946, which stated that the United Nations cannot achieve its goals unless the people of the world are fully informed of its objectives and activities,” the Indian envoy said.
He further stated that it is imperative that multilingualism be embraced in the true sense at the United Nations and that India will support the UN in achieving this goal.
Multilingualism is an essential factor in harmonious communication between peoples and enables multilateral diplomacy. It ensures effective participation of everyone in the work of the organization, as well as greater transparency and efficiency and better results.
“Multilingualism is recognized by the General Assembly as a core value of the organization. As such, all UN Secretariat entities are expected to actively contribute and demonstrate their commitment to this shared endeavour. Multilingualism mandates also call for the mainstreaming of multilingualism in the entire secretariat,” the UN said.
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are the six official languages of the United Nations; English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
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