Resolutions of the Montreux Conference

Resolution 4.2 on Working languages of the COP

4th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
Montreux, Switzerland
27 June-4 July 1990

Resolution 4.2: Working languages of the Conference of the Contracting Parties

NOTING that a growing number of Latin American countries are becoming Contracting Parties to the Convention;

REALIZING the need to enhance communication with and participation of Latin American and other Contracting Parties and Observers;

CONSIDERING that it is indispensable for the effectiveness of the Convention to increase the number of Contracting Parties;

CONVINCED that the addition of Spanish as a working language through the provision of interpretation at Meetings of the Conference of the Contracting Parties would facilitate the accession of Latin American and other States to the Convention;

THE CONFERENCE OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES

DECIDES that Spanish shall be a working language of the Conference of the Contracting Parties.

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