Recommendations Made by the 8th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names

E/DEC/2003/294View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2004.

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Conferences Geographical Names Resources Allocation

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At its 48th plenary meeting, on 24 July 2003, in view of the continuing important contributions made by standardized geographical names, toponymic data files and gazetteers to the work of decision makers, cartographers, linguists, planners and the public at large, as well as the essential contribution that the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names and the United Nations Conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names continued to make to the work of Member States in the field of geographical information and related cartographic areas, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Endorsed the recommendation of the Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names that the Ninth Conference be convened for eight working days in the second half of 2007; 81

(b) Also endorsed the recommendation of the Eighth Conference that the twenty-second session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names be convened in 2004;82

(c) Requested the Secretary-General to take measures, where appropriate and within available resources, to implement the other recommendations made by the Eighth Conference, especially with regard to the work of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names.

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