近日，联合国世界旅游组织（the United Nations World Tourism Organization，简称UNWTO）和西班牙政府正式通报，自2021年1月25日起，中文正式成为UNWTO官方语言。

 

 

UNWTO是全球最具影响力的政府间国际旅游组织，现有159个成员国，总部设在西班牙马德里，西班牙为其存约国。中国于1983年加入该组织。2007年11月，在UNWTO全体大会第17届会议上，中方提议将中文列为该组织官方语言。全体大会采纳了中方提议，并通过了对《世界旅游组织章程》第三十八条的修正案，即“本组织的官方语言为阿拉伯文、中文、英文、法文、俄文和西班牙文”。

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 ".

 

 

根据UNWTO章程规定，该修正案经全体大会通过后，尚须三分之二以上成员国履行批准手续后方可生效。自2007年修正案通过以来，为推动各成员国尽快履行批准手续，促成中文成为UNWTO官方语言早日生效，中方联合UNWTO做了大量工作。2021年1月，修正案批准国达到106个，符合法定数量，修正案正式生效。

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.