語情快遞 | 中文正式成為聯合國世界旅遊組織官方語言

近日，聯合國世界旅遊組織（英文簡稱UNWTO）和西班牙政府正式通報，自2021年1月25日起，中文正式成為UNWTO官方語言。UNWTO為此專門製作了秘書長祖拉布·波洛利卡什維利的相關視頻，以示祝賀。UNWTO是全球最具影響力的政府間國際旅遊組織，現有159個成員國，總部設在西班牙馬德裡，西班牙為其存約國。中國於1983年加入該組織。2007年11月，在UNWTO全體大會第17屆會議上，中方提議將中文列為該組織官方語言。全體大會採納了中方提議，並通過了對《世界旅遊組織章程》第三十八條的修正案，即「本組織的官方語言為阿拉伯文、中文、英文、法文、俄文和西班牙文」。

根據UNWTO章程規定，該修正案經全體大會通過後，尚須三分之二以上成員國履行批准手續後方可生效。自2007年修正案通過以來，為推動各成員國儘快履行批准手續，促成中文成為UNWTO官方語言早日生效，中方聯合UNWTO做了大量工作。2021年1月，修正案批准國達到106個，符合法定數量，修正案正式生效。

Recently, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Spanish government officially announced that since January 25, 2021, Chinese has officially become the official language of the UNWTO. UNWTO congratulated it with a video of the Secretary-General, Zurab Pololikashvili.

UNWTO is the world's most influential intergovernmental international tourism organization, with 159 member countries, headquartered in Madrid, Spain as its depositary. China joined the organization in 1983. At the 17th session of the UNWTO plenary Assembly in November 2007, China proposed that Chinese be included as the official language of the organization. The plenary adopted the Chinese proposal and adopted an amendment to article 38 of the Constitution of the World Tourism Organization, namely that "the official languages of the Organization are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish ".

According to the UNWTO Constitution, the amendment must be approved by the plenary Assembly, more than 2/3 member States to complete the approval procedures before it can enter into force. Since the adoption of the amendment in 2007, China has done a lot of work, jointly with UNWTO to promote the member states to fulfill the ratification procedures as soon as possible and to make Chinese the official language of the UNWTO as soon as possible. In January 2021, the number of ratifications of the amendment reached 106, in accordance with the statutory number and the amendment came into force.