24 March 2000

Original: English

Report of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names on the work of its twentieth session

(United Nations Headquarters, 17-28 January 2000)

Contents Paragraphs Page I. Termsofreference ...... 1 4 II, Attendance ...... 2 4 III. Officers of the session...... 3 4 IV. Opening of the session...... 4-5 4 V. Adoptionoftheagenda ...... 6-7 5 c iI. Reportofthechairman ...... 8-l 1 5 VII. Report of the Secretary ...... 12 6 VIII. Reports of the divisions...... 13-45 6 A. French-speaking Division...... 13-14 6 B. Asia South-East and Pacific South-,West Division ...... 15-16 6 C. East Central and South-East Europe Division...... 17-20 6 D. United Kingdom Division...... 21 7 E. ChinaDivision ...... 22 7 F. ArabicDivision ...... 23-26 7 G. .Baitic Division...... 27 8 H. NordenDivision...... ~ ...... 28-29 8 I. United States of America/Canada Division...... 30 8 J. Asia East Division (other than China)...... 31 8 K. Latin America Division...... 32 9 L. Dutch- and German--speaking Division ...... 33 9 GEGN/20

M. Africa South Division ...... 34-35 9 N. East Mediterranean Division (other than Arabic) ...... 36 9 0. Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division...... 37-38 9 P. Romano-Hellenic Division...... 39-41 10 Q. Celtic Division...... 42 10 R. Asia South-West Division (other than Arabic) ...... 43 10 S. Other Divisions ...... 44 10 T. Work of ail divisions ...... i ...... 45 11 IX. Reports of the liaison officers, regional meetings and international organizations 46-54 11 X. Reportsoftheworkinggroups ...... 55-62 12 A. Publicity and funding ...... 56 12 B. Romanization systems ...... 57 13 C. Toponymic data files and gazetteers...... 58 13 D. Training courses in toponymy...... 59 13 E. Toponymic terminology...... 60 13 F. Countrynames ...... 61 13 G. Proposal for a working group on evaluation and implementation...... 62 13

Xi. Meeting of the Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy...... 63-72 13 XII. Meeting of the Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers ...... 73-92 14 XIII. Meeting of the Working Group on Toponymic Terminology...... 93-100 18 XIV. Meeting of the Working Group on Romanization Systems...... 101-111 19 xv. Meeting of the Working Group on Country Names...... 112-115 20 XVI. Meeting of the Working Group on Publicity and Funding...... 116-123 20 XVII. Toponymic guidelines for map editors and other editors ...... 124-135 21 XVM. Exonyms ...... 136-139 22 XIX. Standardization in multilingual areas...... 140-g44 23 xx. Progress made on archiving documents...... , ...... 145-146 23 XXI. Implementation of resolutions and the aims and functions of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names...... 147-160 23 XXIII. Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names 161-162 25 XXIII. Twenty-first session of the Group of Experts ...... 163-165 25 XXIV. Other matters ...... 166 25 xxv. Adoptionofthereport ...... 167 25 XXVI. Voteofthanks...... 168 25 GEGNi20

Annexes I. Listofdocuments...... 26 II. Listofparticipants...... ’.....;...... 32 III. Provisional agenda for the twenty-first session of the United Nations Group of Experts on GeographicalNames...... ,...... 46 IV. Statute and rules of procedure of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names...... 47 V. Provisional agenda for the Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of GeographicalNames...... 53 VI. Rules of procedure of the United’Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names...... ,...... 55

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3 I. Terms of reference Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers 1. In pursuance of Economic and Social Council Convenoc decision 1999/9, the Secretary-General invited the Randall Flynn United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) to convene its twentieth session at Rapporteur: United Nations Headquarters from 17 to 28 January Velma Brown 2000. Working Group on Toponymic Terminology Convenor: II. Attendance Naftali Kadmon Rapporteur: 2. The session was attended by 131. participants Gerd Quinting from 52 countries, representing 18 of the 22 geographical/linguistic divisions of the Group of Working Group on Romanization Systems Experts. In addition, 31 observers were present. The Convenor: list of documents is contained in annex I, the list of Peeter Piill participants in annex II, the provisional agenda for the twenty-first session of the Group of Experts in annex Rapporteur: III, the statute and rules of procedure of the Group of Caroline Burgess Experts in annex IV, the provisional agenda for the Working Group on Country Names Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in annex V, Chairperson: and the rules of procedure of the United Nations Helen Kerfoot (in the absence of the Convenor, Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Sylvie Lejeune) Names in annex VI. Rapporteur: Randall Flynn III. Officers of the session Working Group on Publicity and Funding 3. The officers for the twentieth session were: Convener: John Parker Chairperson: Helen Kerfoot (in the absence of UNGEGN Rapporteur: Chair Peter Raper) Randall Flynn Vice-Chairman: Botolv Helleland IV Opening of the session Rapporteurs: 4. The twentieth session of the Group of Experts Roger Payne was opened at 10.40 a.m. on 17 January 2000. Since Randall Flynn Peter Raper, Chairman of UNGEGN, could not attend For the names of.the Chairmen of the divisions, see the the session, Helen Kerfoot, ViceXhairman, assumed list of participants (annex II). The officers of the the duties of Chairperson. The Group of Experts agreed Working Groups were: that Botolv Helleland w,ould serve as Vice-Chairman for the twentieth session. Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy 5. The Chairperson reminded the Group of the aims Convenor: and goals of UNGEGN, and noted’ that the session Ferjan Ormeling was te.chnical in nature. UNGEGN’s work is to follow Rapporteur: up the resolutions of the United Nations Conference Louis Yost on the Standardization of Geographical Names

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(UNCSGN), and recommendations of the twentieth 19. Eighth United Nations Conference on the session would be directed to the Eighth United Nations Standardization of Geographical Names. Conference on the Standardization of Geographical 20. Twenty-first session of the Group of Names, to be hosted by Germany in 2002. Experts. 21. Other matters. V. Adoption of the agenda 22. Adoption of the report. 6. The provisional agenda (information paper No. 2) 7. The Group of Experts noted that while there was was adopted without change as follows: no item specifically ‘addressing the use and 1. Opening of- the session. development of the Internet, the topic would naturally arise in several agenda items and special cognizance 2. Adoption of the agenda. should be taken of the Internet as a phenomenon 3. Report of the Chairman. exerting significant influence on the work of UNGEGN and a major opportunity for making its work more 4. Report of the Secretary. widely available. 5. Reports of the Divisions. 6. Reports of the liaison officers, regional VI. Report of the Chairman meetings and internationalorganlxations. 8. The Chairperson read the report submitted by the 7. Summary reports of the Working Groups. Chairman. While the Group of Experts could point to 8. Meeting of the Working Group on Training many positive accomplishments, it had also to Courses in Toponymy. recognize the slow pace of toponymic standardization activity in developing areas. The report urged 3. Meeting of the Working Group on UNGEGN to use all means, especially emerging Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers. technological capabilities, to reach developing 10. Meeting of the Working Group on countries and support the establishment of programmes Toponymic Terminology. of national toponymic standardization. 11. Meeting of the Working Group on 9. The recently released UNGEGN promotional Romanization Systems. brochure highlighted the benefits of standardizing geographical names. 12. Meeting of the Working Group on Country Names. 10. The Chairperson remarked on the value placed on the work of the Group of Experts by other 13. Meeting of the Working Group on Publicity organizations. She noted the election of Ferjan and Funding. Ormeling (Dutch- and German-speaking Division) to 14. Toponymic guidelines for map editors and the position of Secretary-General of the International other editors. Cartographic Association (ICA), and the election of Isolde Hausner (Dutch- and German-speaking 15. Exonyms. Division) and Botolv Helleland (Norden Division) to 16. Standardization in multilingual areas. the positions of President and Vice-President, respectively, of the International Council on Onomastic 17. Progress made on archiving documents Sciences (ICOS). pertaining to the Unlted%Nations Conference on the Standardization’ of Geographical 11. An opportunity for furthering the aims of Names and to the sessions of the United UNGEGN would come with the next International Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Geographical Congress, to be hosted by the Republic Names. of Korea in August 2000. The Congress would include IS. Implementation of resolutions and the aims a special session devoted to geographical names and functions of the Group of Experts. standardization.

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VII. Report of the Secretary with UNGEGN), quality, promotional activities; setting of priorities and control of the operational‘structure. At 12. The Secretariat described internal structural the operational level, a cadre of experts and technicians changes occurring since 1998 leading to the placement were carrying out activities associated8 with the of cartographic, toponymic and geographical production of toponymic products including- internal information systems (GIS) support services in the instructions and guides, provision of ,training and United Nations Statistics- Division. Though the advisory services, and database administration. The specifics of toponymy were new to the Division, the Division noted that another toponymic commission concept of standardization was understood and operated in France at the national level, and was supported. The Division had recently filled a full-time composed of representatives of various state agencies; position allocated. to cartography, geagraphlcal its role was strictly consuhative, while. the IGN’s information systems, toponymy and liaison- with the Commission de toponymie was obliged to decide the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), spelling of geographical names appearing on IGN and the incumbent would soon report for duty. The products. Secretariat announced that it would continue to support the periodic publication of the UNGEGN Newslerter and would provide assistance with the issuance of the B. Asia South-East and Pacific So-u& Group of Experts’ promotional brochure and the. West Division glossary of terminology. A significant backlog in editorial work had delayed the publication of volume II IS. The Division presented’ working, paper No. 10, of the report of the Seventh United Nations Conference reporting., that little activity. had occurred in the on the Standardization of Geographical Names. Division since the previous session. Financial problems Alternatives to the publication of a conventional thwarted.attempts-to hold a divisional meeting- in 1998 volume II included incremental electronic and a toponymic training course in 1997; Despite the dissemination of edited papers and the release of fiscal situation, the Division reported continued interest unedited papers. The Secretariat announced that future in toponymic standardization among membercountries. UNGEGN and conference reports would conform to Chairmanship of the Division re.centIy passed to the Economic and Social Council standards of reporting, newly appainted Chairman of the. Committee for with a summary narrative of major points, Geographical Names in Austraiasia. observations, recommendations. and conclusions, and 16. Working paper No. 50 highlighted activities in the avoidance of verbatim testimony. Malaysia, including the establishment of’ the State Geographical Names Committee. The-Group of Experts noted Malaysia’s national gazetteer, a component of the VIII. Reports-of the:divisions national computer-assisted mapping system. Aspects of the national spatial-data infrastructure: were noted, and A. French-speaking Division it was announced that a regional cartographic conference. would be convened at, Kuala Lumpur from 13. The report (working, paper No. 79) highlighted’ 11 to 14 April 2000. the work of the Division, created in January I998 at the Seventh United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. Provisional C. East Central and South--East administrative information and membership of the Europe Division Division was provided with details iegarding the, Division’s bulletin and website. 17. The Divi.sion presentedworking paperNo. 11 and L4. The Division presented workbig. paper No. 5, reported. ona divisional me.eting held in ApriI 1999 in summartlzing the. new tivo-tiered Ctuiimission de Slovenia where many topics were discussed!televant to toponymie put in place at the Institut gebgraphique UNGEGN. The Division also reported,.on the use of national; (IGN) of Ftance in November 1997. The two systems of romanization in Bulgaria and efforts in Commission, at the decision-making level; dealt with that country to establish a unlfietl system for matters involving institutional relationships (such as romanization of geographical names. The recent death

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of Jerzy Kondrack& a. distinguished expert from State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping had Poland, was,noted, established a relief map database at a scale of 1:250$00. In 1998, a technical national committee for 18, The Division also presented working paper the standardization of geographical names had been No. 12 and reported developments furthering established to address technical needs associated with toponymic standardization in Slovenia. The treatment national toponymic standardization, including of geographical. flames in multilingual border regions orthography, name changes, coding in information was of particular interest. The issue of non-standard systems and the presentation of names on signs; It- was names. in various national names:sources was noted as noted that the China Institute of Toponymy had been problematical. established in 1995 to formulate standards, identify iIT; Working paper No. 55 covered changes of names software requirements and create a toponymic of populated places and-the creation of a new regional database. structure in Hungary. It was noted that the seven regions- were created to advance Hungary’s aims in achieving membership in, the European Union. The F. Arabic Division existing system of counties would be,retained. 23. Working paper No. 93 contained- an overview of 20. The Group. of Experts noted working paper activity in nine member nations of-the Arabic Division: No. 72, report of the former Yugoslav Republic of Algeria, Jordan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Macedonia. No expert was available to present the Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic and paper. United Arab Emirates. The Division reported that a divisional meeting would be organized in 2000 or 2001 at the invitation of the United Arab Emirates with the aim of preparing the Division for the Eighth- UNCSGN 211. ‘8%e.Division presented working paper No. 13. in 2002. The working paper included a tabulation of the 24. Working paper No. 17 concentrated on administrative division-s. of England, effective 1 April developments in Jordan since the last UNGEGN 1998. The paper included a statement of function of the session, and included a presentation of the historical Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for legacy of cartography in. Jordan. The paper included British Offrc,i.al Use (PCGN). and PCGN contact descriptions of the geographical publications in information. Information on the role of the Ordnance production in Jordan, including an encyclopaedia of Survey. in standardizing names in th-e United Kingdom towns and two. gazetteers, and noted the publication of was also provided. The Division noted that a new Basics of Geographical Names by the Royal Jordanian Ordnance Survey draft policy statement regarding Geographical Centre in 1997. The work of the Gaelic place names was in review, as was the policy for geographical names committee was mentioned and the the provision of gazetteer services at. the Ordnance national atlas of Jordan was described. The paper Survey web site. contained an annex with the romanitation system used in Jordan for Arabic geographical names. 25. Working paper No. 19 was a survey of Nubian place names conducted in conjunction with a new 22. The China Division presented working paper project to build a dam on the Nile River at Kajbar in No, 16, reporting accomplishments since the previous the vicinity of the Third Cataract. of the Nile. The session. Technical standards had been formulated for project had been funded to survey the geographical rendering geogr@phical names from foreign languages names of the area. The. paper addressed three salient into Chinese. The UNGEGN Glossary of Toponymic points: how the place names collected shotrId be Terminology, Version 4 (EICONP.9 l/L. 13) bad been written, how they should be interpreted and bow they translated into Chieese, and the Standard should be integrated into community life. Of particular Administrative Regions Names Atlas had been edited. interest to UNGEGN were the technical challenges Much activity. had been- focused on establishing an associated with rendering geographical names in automated geographical names database for China. The standard Arabic and English orthographies when the \ .

7 GEGNIZO _- - names are- in languages not genetically related-go,either planning as a component in regionaf and. economic Arabic or English. The paper presented compelling planning. The Group of Experts viewedavrdeo entitled: pointsreg;arding the cultural and liistorical significance “Place. names: the memory of the. place?, producedby. of geographical, names and their potential use in the Research Institute for Languages in Finland and historical reconstruction. The Group of Experts agreed broadcast twice on Finnish television, that this. project presented a unique opportunity to 29. The Division presented working- paper No. 39, implement many of the procedures recommended. by highlighting the activities’of the Div&ion’s members in. UNGEGN; especially relating to naniesstandardization the fields of national standardization, office treatment. in multilingual areas. The Experts complimented the of names, training courses, toponymic data- B!es and’ author of the paper and it was indicated that. the standardization in multilingual. area-s,ft was noted that contents,of the paper would be discussed further under the Norwegian Saamj Language Council. had.&cided to other agenda items. use Saami as the. English language term for the fortner 21% Work.jnglpaper No. 88 addressed cartographic and Sami (and before that. Lappish);, Dual Saami. and- toponymic activities in Morocco since the last session Norwegian, place names had been noted. in. a: recently of UNGEGN. The toponymic gazetteer currently published road atlas; the Division; reported that- both. included approximately 120,000 .entries. The field forms could be used and that. primacy of position did collection, of geographical names by private sector not impIy preference. surveyorswasreported, as was a-national conference of topographical surveyors held in October 1998. I. United States of Anwicar Canada Division, * G. Baltic. Division , 30. The Division reported. in working paper No. 44‘ 27. The Division presented working paper No. 25 continued close cooperation. Areas of increased highlighting the activities of each of the member States activity for both Division membea ~ncbtde&cofleQion. of the Division, with particular attention to national of names of indigenous origin and- enharrcemeitt of- authorities, field collection, mapping programmes, Internet capabilities. Both countries:wer!??.also involved gazetteers. and toponymic data, files and training in reviewing elements of thejr respect&e courses. The Division reported progress in standardization principles, policies and procedures. standardijtationin multilingual areas, and>provided lists The new Canadian territory of Nunavut will have of recent publications. The Group ofExperts noted that representation on the- Canadian Permanent.CWmfttee the.pfacename decisions of the State Committee of tlie on- Geographical Names (GPCGN. The Group of Lithuanian Language have legal status. The Division Experts noted that the issue- of acronyms: a’ reported~that in Latvia the Place Names Gommission geographical names had been a- topic for- policy has recommendatory rights, and. in Estonia the Place decision in the United States, citing the new- name Names Act provides for the legal status of domestic Mount POW/MIA in Alaska as an cxa.mple, flames. J. Asia East Division (other: tljmChjnsj $I. Norden.Diiiisim 31. The Division submitted. work@ paper No, 48 28. Workjng paper No. 22 Included a report of concerning, infer afia; toponymic act3itie.s ID the. activities involving. European heritage days in Finland Republic of Korea. The topic of the tomank@ion uf L999, at which the theme was “Place- names: the Korean, inciuded in the working p#pe~,.was referred-to. m_emory of places”. The heritage days activity was the meeting of the Working: Groupas &Xnanjzation used as a means to educate the pubIic regarding the Systems. Experts within the OivWn exp!essed importance of standardizin-g geographical names different views on the choice and use of the name 6f without Iosing their historical value. Workshops, the body of water separating the Korean penjnsula and s~minar~~~ublic~~i~ns.an~telev~s~onprogrammes~were the Japanese archipelago. The l?lson offC~T dovelopeedtoaducatee-th-e- public on the cultural value of representing. the Intemati~nal. Hydiographic place names and the importance of place name

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Organization ((HO) e.xplained the structure and Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. The authority activities of that organization in the context of names of the Council had been expanded from, deciding names of maritime features. He further indicated that the for administrative entities, towns, and streets to include revision of the International Hydragraphic Bureau’s names of, physical features. The Council would also publication S-23 Limits of Oceans and Seas is supervise the application of names in the official proceeding. The- liaison. officer noted that the IHO is a languages of South Africa and the development of a pure@ technica and consultative body; its decisions do digital database of geographicai names that would be notI. have binding legal ’status. ,freeIy available. 39. Working paper No. 64 highlighted recent K, Latin AmefikDivision activities in Mozambique. Accomplishments included field collection activities to support large-scale -32. The Group. of Experts noted working paper No. mapping in Niassa Province. Collection of 56 on the origin- of the name Peru, but no geographicai names based on mapping at smaller scales represe-ntative of the Latin America. Division was continued within the National Directorate of present to discuss its content. Geography and Cadastre. Specially noted was the establishment of a working group with the goal of establishing a national names-authority. It was expected L, Dutch- and German-speirking Division that a national committee -on geographical names would be established in the year 2000. 33.’ The Division presented working paper No. 58 coveri.ng divisional meetings, toponymic guidelines, tra_%mg courses and databases involving the seven N. East Mediterranean Divisisn (other member nafions, *The Group of Experts noted in than Arabfc) particular the .orthographic reform of the German lane;uage and. the concept of a European. geographical 36. Working paper No. 76 covered recent activities in names d,atabase,a complex project that,would integrate Israel, including work on transliteration systems, the separate national names databases, concentrating duality of orthography in official maps and the work -of specificafIy on names of non-adminisfrative features. the Government Names Commission. The Commission With regard tQ German orthography, the Division was currently concentrating its efforts primarily on p&ted out that the same: alphabet was now used features associated with transportation and throughout the German-speaking community, with a communication networks9 and on :environmental double s (ss) used instead of B if it is preceded by a features. It was noted that a decision by the comp.eten~ s.hort vowel. The 0 te-mains if it is preceded by a long national authorities was pending concerning revised vowel or- a di@hthQn& Theoretically, the orthography in rutes for the romanization of Hebrew, to replace those Germany shouId. be the same because all Lsnder ratified in 1956 tind adopted by the Third United (federal states) signed an agreement on orthography, Nations Conference on the Standardization of but in practice some differences would remain. The Geographical Names in 1977. recent death of Josef Breu, a founding member of. the Group of Experts, was.noted. 0. Eastern Europe, Northern’and Cetitral Asia Division M; AT&a-South Division. 37. The Division presented working paper No. 80, 34. Representatives of the Division chose not to covering the activities of national names authorities address wQrfcing paper No. 2 (activities of and mapping organizations within the Division. Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa) but National geographical names authorities had been introduced working paper No. 89. It- was reported’that established in ‘some form in a11 countries of the in South Africa, the National Place-Names Committee Division except Armenia and Tajikistan. The report of has been abolished and replaced by the- South:African the Division also covered the status of systems of Geographical Names Council within the Ministry of romanization in the member countries,and the statusof GEGNl20 compilation- of catalogues and files of standard creation of the Geographical Names Advisory geographical name spellings; The conversion to a Committee, to work in-conjunction with the Permanent Roman-alphabet orthography in Azerbaijan was noted; Committee on the Standardization of Geographical name. changes were being processed and Names, was announced. The paper described the accommodated as-best as possible, but help would be treatment of street names (odonyms) in Cyprus, Works needed from- the Group of Experts, especially with in progress included draft toponymic guidelines and a regard to technical assistance. The status of local booklet containing principles for the standat%ation official speilings in use in the Russian Federation was and romanization of place name spellings. @was-noted raised, with the use of the Tatar language in Tatarstan- that the ELOT 743 standard for the tomanization of as an example. The Group of Experts noted that the Greek had been fully implemented in official Russian Federation has numerous locally official geographical names. Future programmes include languages, and local name spellings may be used furthering the work towards improved,, concise and within a Republic. At the federal level, the Russian complete gazetteers, including a gazetteer of odonyms, name spelling was the official form for standardization glossaries of undersea features and generic terms and purposes. the preparation of a new administrative map of Cyprus; 38. Workingpaper No. 82 provided a classification of populated localities by district as shown on the official- Q. Celtic Division map of Azerbaijan at a scale of 1:600,000 dated 1994. The spellings of the, locality names in. the paper had 42. The Division reported that English spellings of been adapted to the English language and were not place names in Ireland had been. tffect.ixeiy strict Azeri spellings. Name changes since 1994 were standardized by the Ordnance Survey. The Place. included in the paper. Names Commission advised on policy regarding Irish language spellings for place names, and. the- Place P. Romano-Hellenic Division Names Branch carried out the practical. aspects of the Commission’s work. in the last year, bofh the PTaca 39. The Division. delivered working paper No. 85, Names Commission and the Place Names. Branch were and reported that Mr, Arca (Italy) had succeeded transferred from the Ordnance Survey tp_ the Ms Lejeune (France)as C&airman of the Division. The Department of Arts, Heritage, GaeItacht and the working paper prioritised the work within- the Division, Islands. The Divisio-n looked forward to renewing its including development of toponymic guidelines, work within the Group of Experts- foiIo.wing this compilation of concise catalogues of names, transfer. maintenance! of national lists of exonyms and the publication of a multilingual glossary of geographical R. Asia- South-West Divisibnr(@wr terms. than Arabic) 40. The Group of Exgerts discussed the status of name spellings in Greece. The Division reported that 43. The Division reported in worklng paper Bo. 40 according to the established procedures for the that the IsIamic Republic of Iran had initiate?- fierdl standardization of geographical names in Greece, work in the province of Yazd in I997 and~.olIecti’onof geographical names are determined through geographical information in the province of Kerman in appropriate legal procedures and can be in any form of 1998. This work would: contribute to the, nati.onai the Greek Ianguage

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T. Work of all divisions Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. 45. At the conclusion. of the.. Division reports, the Chairperson reviewed the organization and structure of UNGEGN; The Group of Experts observed the growing IX. Reports of the liaison officers, gap between developed and developing countries regional meetings and international regarding implementation of programmes for organizations standardizing geographical names. The lack of representation. from’ developing countries, particularly Pan American Institute of Geography and in the southern hemisphere, continued to be troubling, History (PAIGH) with lack of adequate funding unhersaily recognized as a chronic problem. New York as the venue for 46. The Group of Experts noted two specific sessions of the Group of Experts may have inhibited accomplishments of the Pan American Institute of attendance for reasons of cost. It was also noted that Geography and History reported in working paper funding may not be the sole issue, and a survey of No. 37. First, the Diccionario Geograflco de America those experts frequently absent might provide insight. Central, a joint endeavour sponsored by PATGH, the Shortening the- length of sessions and using electronic National Geographic Institute of Honduras and the meeting methods were also suggested to improve the National Geographic Institute of Spain, had been level of participation, It was suggested that more use published in 1999. Second, the PAIGH course on could be made of various regional meetings to more applied toponymy had been conducted twice since effectively bring together experts from developing 1998, once at Lima and once at Guatemala City. It was countries. The Group of Experts noted that regional noted that the course materials, in the. Spanish meetings of. other Organizations could be additional language, had been distributed at the eighteenth session vehfcles for; fu~rthering standardization work It. was of the Group of Experts and could be obtained from the considered critical; however, that UNGEGN continue liaison officer. to pursue its unique aims and functions, independent of other regional organizations that depended upon the Council of Geographic Names Authorities work of the Group oft Experts in their respective (COGNA) countries ta achieve. names standardization; It was 47. The Liaison Officer. introduced working paper further noted that UNGEGN had a vehicle for smaller No. 42, noting that in the United States, the Council of meetings and seminars everywhere through the Geographic Names Authorities had grown out of the programmes of the Working Group on Training Western States Geographic Names Council and had Courses in Toponymy. The Group agreed that there since expanded membership throughout the United should be an expanded use of digital media, especially States. The Council’s aims included the promotion of the Internet, on behalf of UNGEGN aims and geographical names standardization and cooperation functions. Specifically, the Group of Experts strongly among United States state and federal agencies recommended the elaboration of a thorough and involved in naming activities. professionally managed UNGEGN web site under the auspices of the-:Secretariat. Electronic distribution of International Hydrograpbic Organization United Nations, papers either by the Secretariat or the WO) Divisions was also considered a priority. Other suggestions to improve the. effectiveness of the Group 48. The Liaison Officer presenfed working paper of Experts included sponsoring. a. geographical names No. 57 (and corrigendum) and reported on undersea day to increase public awareness and more positive feature naming activity sponsored by IHO in support of local education, as exemplified by the television the production of the General Bathymetric Chart of the programme presented as a video by Finland. It was also Oceans. A list of undersea feature generic terms had noted that a statement emphasizing the importance of also been under review. A new edition of the IHO the organization should accompany the invitation to publication S-23 Limits of Oceans and Seas is in attend UNGEGN sessions and the United Nations progress.

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Second International Symposium-on I presentation and an exhibit by the- C-ansrd~an~Parmarnent Geographical Names *GeoNames 2000” Committee on Geographical Names, SimiIar.activities were being planned for future ICA conferences. 49. The Dutch- and ‘German-speaking Division announced in- working paper No.. 59 that the 53. The Croup. of Experts cons.ider*ee$working paper symposiu-m GeoNatnes 2000 wouid, be hefd at No. 5 1, describing, a maj.or cattog:aphic, exhibit Fiailkfurt am Main in March, 2000. Organized by the organized by Canada and-heId’ in Ott‘a.wa.as part of the Standiger Ausschuss ftir geographische Namen, the ICA conference. The exhibit, in wliich 44: countties symposium would address issues associated with participated, had been- organIzed @rqumI nine major exonyms, romanization, toponymic databases, nationa themes and included many items. of a toponymic standardization, orthographic reform, and nature. A bilingual cataIogue. (in French-,and- English) pr@nunciatlm. had been prepared for conference4 particip.an& The Group of Experts: then. discussed the. exhlbitiAoniin the SeientKficCommittee on Aptarctic Research context of the United Nations. Conference, an t&e. @CAR) Standardi.zation of Geographical Names: echedqle:d,for 2002 at OerIin. The presenter of the u;lorking papq 50. The Liaison officer introduced working paper re.cQmmend:edin this regard.that organ@rs be..mindful No. 60 and reviewed SCAR activity relating to the of the camptexity and amount. of, work reg_uited..in deveIopment of recommendations on toponymic mounting such an exhibition. gui-&lines for’ Antarctica and the compilation of a composite gazetteer through the collation Qf existing gazetteers and nariies lists that had been created by 1nternational;Map Trade Asso$@tibn_(n,: auth0ritie.s in- several cauntries. The printed version of 54. The representative of IMTA gave a:. b&f the composite:ga@&er had been available since 1998 presentation on the aims and fuactions of the and is also.sarchablii onIine; association, noting, in par&ular. ti@c -assoc@tion members are impoffsnt customers aT the Qrroup, of International Cooacil on Onpr#astic SCknces Experts and of natioDa1 toponymic, authotriti’es; The (Kxm representative also hlghiighted the lMTA cafe In developing. markets for cartographic in%rniat,ian and 51. The Liaison Officer presented working paper No. 70, reportingthat 20 experts in geographical names products, promotifig cartographic Iiteraq, and: advising had: participated in a section of the Twentieth members on issues associate& with. c,opyright and InternationafGXmgress Qf Gnomastic Sciences devoted inteIlectua1 property rights inherent in c-aogyaphic to standardization of place- names. The Congress had products. been held at then.Uniyerslty of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in SepremWr 1999. It was futier reported that voIume 35 of the ICGS journal OIfO~tta would be a thematic volume cov.ering aspects of names 55. The Chai.rpersoa Wed the impoXance of the standardization, Papers were invited and could be work of Zhc UNGEGN worlc@q groups; Itr: add&&g submitted -to.the UNGEGN expert from- Austria, It was specific issues facing natiOna @pd..international noted that. the off%&& ignguages af. ICQS @id Onoma standardization that cut across UNG-EGN. division were English, French: and German. The T\iuenty-first lines. internati6&Ial. engres-s, Of Qn-omastic.&iences will be held at UppsaIB, Sweden fro-m 19 to:24 August 2002. A. Publicjty andfuadiig ldterlatioeal Cartographic AssociatimflICA) 56. The Convener of the workin& Group &trQduced 52. The Vaison Officer fWI%A reported in working working paper No. 9 and reported that the- UNGEGN paper No. 84 th~isnsevera activities associated with promotionaf brochure had finany b2en puI&h.ed in $tatldardizaf$n.o% geographica names had taken place English. Still to be determined welre. d&i2iution at the ICA infewational:conference held in Ottawa in strategies and the means to translate. the. brochure text August 1999. These included a workshop, a database into the other United. Nations official languages. The

1.2, GEGNi20 tI+&venor. nQted that fie- brochure was available for E. Toponymic terminology downloading, and,,reuse. in digital portable document format. In addition, compact disks containing the 60. The Convenor reported that the principal focus of printing version of the brochure, were available, the Working Group was now the translation of the en3bIing easy tepublication of the broc.hure in other English language glossary of toponymic- terms into the Iiqpges., other official languages of the United Nations. Versions. of the glossary in five out of the six languages were now in hand, but several points, including format, remained to be addressed. The Convenor noted that version 4 of the glossary was the latest version but that 57. The-.ativenor presented working paper No. 15 three minor amendments had been made to the version and reported. on- the membership and activity of the issued at the s.eventh United Nations Conference on the group since 1998. The. major. accomplishment was the Standardization of Geographical Names. These preparation ofa summary reportclarifying the.status of changes do not affect the version’s number. romanization systems in. a United Nations context, He further reported on news and developments regarding the romanization of Byelorussian and Bulgarian .F. Country names Cpillic, the phQnologica1 romanization of the Dzongkha- script, and mIes for transliteration of place 61. In the absence of the working group’s Conven.or, names of, the- Russian Federation, Developments there was no summary report. regarding Thai, Hebrew; Turkmen and.Uzbek were also noted. G. Proposal for a working group on evaluation and implementation C, T‘sponmic da?a files and gazetteers 62. The Croup of Experts discussed the-revival of the 58. The Convener referred to: working p,aper No. 46 working group in the context of working paper No. 24. and teviewed‘the work plan for the Working Group The Group concluded that a review of reports to established at the nineteenth session Qf UNGBGN, in UNGEGN at its fifteenth session, in 1991, and to the 1998. Some progrr_esshad: been made. in furthering the Sixth Conference held in 1992 was necessary before alhJ~$f%lie Working Group, including participation in a decisions could be reached on the future of the working >Ral’ gazetteer information excliange wnrkshop in group. October 1999, and the emergence of a draft standard for spatial referencing through geographical identifiers from the InternationaJ.$rgani.zation for Standardization XI. Meeting of the Working Group on @3(5). Training Courses in Toponymy 63. The Convenor opened the meeting of the Working 0‘. rlraip@g-43urses in topQ38ymy Group and reviewed its membership. He noted thit working papers Nos. 25, 37, 39~ and 58, discussed $9, Thie Convener repOrted that some. progress had under other agenda items, also contained informatiun I&n made in &e< maintenance. of- the. toponymic on toponymic training-of interest to the wotkingSroup, t@ifU~~~-:web sit@:a@ iiv tl-ie.&-v&qgnen~ OF a?web.6 6ased toponymic tr@@tg~ cuurse> EIRirts were- also 64. The Cionvenor presented working paper No. 83, devoted to preparation for. the. trainhig course to be describing the purposes of international toponymic held in con$nictiQn~ w&h the United Nations training, and listing the courses that had been Conference on the Standardization of Geographical conducted since the nineteenth session of UNGEGN. Names.scheduled. for 2002. The paper also addressed training courses planned for the future and the establishment of a web-based training course in conjunction with the Commission on Education and Training of the International 69. The feasibility of conducti.ng, courses- Qnbqther Cartographic Association. - divisions, including the Asia So&-E&~ iand P&ific- 65. The working, group then discussed the most South-West Division, the- Arabic: Division- and #he East effective- ways to conduct training coursesand to make Central and South-East Europe Di.~is~~~~,a~discussed. training material available to divisions that require it. 76. Working Paper No. 26,: summa&ing the The, group encouraged actions to attempt to secure workshop conducted at the ICA conference, in Ottawa United Nations funds for training, and’ to train small in August 1999, was presented; The. Convertor urged groups of individuals as=instruetors for toponymic that training material used during. that ~ci&!&6p, as tXaining. courses. The toponymic; training web site, well as any other toponytiic course materi& b&sent to organized- by the Convenor of the Working Group and him for- incorporation in the topo.ny.m& ttaining web to beaqcessible in, April 2000, will’ include references site. totoponymic training material. 71. The publication of Mr. Kad@sn!s “To;onyrny: 66. The working group then discussed the training the laws, iore and language of.; geographbza-PI JlrrtnesQ course to be heId in conjunction with the Eighth United had been delayed, but it was hoped th‘at ttn updated Nations Conference on the Standardization of manuscript of this training- liter.at.ure- would be Geographica! Namesat Berlin is2002. Between 20 and published in the near future, 25 students would participate in the course, and their lodging and transportation costs would be defrayed by 72. The Convenor announced that&X wou?d.meet at the conference organizers. Ideally, oandidates would be Budapest. in February 2000. to, #@dress ai web-bashed from developing countries, under 35 years of age, and cartography course, a module. of%which would be possessing: devoted to toponymy. (a) A degree in cartography, geogiaphy or Iinguistics; ToponfmicData Files.;&d! - (b) A basic-knowledge of toponymy; Gazetteers (c) PracticaI.experience in field work; (d) Adequate knswledge of database or 73. The Convenor opened the meetiing.by: @Ming that geographical information system computer technology; almost all of the two dozen, reports af the- divisions made reference to toponymic data&s-es an~&&@tteers, (e) Adequate command of ‘the English While this indicated that these top&s were t$o~ b$ing language; dealt with on a ro$ne basis, it was d:ear &at the. (f) An ability to transfer. the knowledge learned Working Group needed to make- r.@%@zizte$effort to toothers’in-their borne countries, address emerging issues, espe$XaTy &i the area of exchange.of digital toponymic information; 62.. & was noted: that candidates should also be eligible to- be future. members of- their country’s 74, The United States of Amer:ic&&ia~a.. @vision: delegation to a United Nati.ons_geographical names. presented working paper No. Z&., des@i@n_;inLg:the conferencej and that fern& candidates should be” toponymic products based 0~. the: @nadian erzouraged to apply. Countries with. potential Geographicai Names Dat” Base (CGNDB) and candidates should contactthe courseorganizer, whether information from provincia1 nameg a_rth6rities. These or not candidates meet all of the criteria, The course included hard copy, microfithe and-digital versions of curricufutn; whenfinalired, would be made availabIe to gazetteers. Standard- digital, data: fil& of populated experts:through tie VNGEGN Newsletter. places and administrative areas, all p&c,@a&features,. bydrograghic fe.atures.and, regional’ fiJes of: all; pCaees 68. The w_olrking: group took note of the annual and features were available, in sddition, ~nst?6tized’ training, cb.urse conducted, by China, Each course. digital files could be cteaXed, @p@n:reguestf; The includes from 80 to 100 youag. trainees, underscoring “GeoNames” web site had both E&lish- and~xFrench the complexity of geographic-al names in.- China, the addresses and gave public access.to;$h% 500;%. names -sizeof the population andthe vastnesssf its territory. of CGNDB. Database searches and map requests-on the GEGNItO . .. web- site exceeded. 3-600 hits per day. The Canadian states) is available in digital form only. During Permanent Committee on Geographical Names- and its discussion of the working paper it was explained that constituent members had produced. a, variety of coordinates presented in the Concise Gazetteer were toponymic publications; inc!ud.ing glossaries,.guides to taken. at the centroid&of a feature, with the exception of field” collection..and naming and a guide to toponymic those, taken at the mouth of a stream. The working dat&@es of Canada. There were no plans to group noted the importance of documenting the method disco~ntinue production of hard copy gazetteers..The. of assigning coordinates when describing toponymic Working Group: abted that the working paper included. data files and gazetteers. appropriate points of’ contaxt and e-mail addresses,for 77. The Romano-HeIlenic Division presented experts to make further contact with authorities working paper No. 9 1 on the publication of the Concise regarding the numerous products available. Gazetteer of Greece. As a first stage in the 75; The United States of AmericafCanada Division development of this gazetteer, a. concise catalog of preserifed working paper No; 36, giving an account of geographical names has been prepared. This catalog- the development of the D~igital Gaz~etteerof the United contains approximately. 2,500 geographical names with States-of America on co~mpa~tdisk. Five editions have Greek and romanized spellings in accordance with beenproduced; with ope~-2~OXlO6entries added toeach ELGT 743, and geographical coordinates, The next new version-df the.~@@%teer;the most recent release stage in the development of the gazetteer will be the was in Qctober 1999. It contains approximately 2 inclusion of additional data elements identifying million aameS;in~tbe~UnltedStafes;Z its commonwealths feature type and cross references to previously used and. territories,. and. IS,006 namers: in Antarctica. names. standardized.by the.United States Board sn Ge.ographic 78. Working paper No; 92, submitted by the Romano- ?@nes~

15, w territory. Paper gazetteers will be produced on a- print&on-demand8basis only; the US BGN should. be contacted;for- further information. US- BGN toponymio data files @e; available without copyright or licensing resttictions. The Osnvenor commented on: the need for division reports to incorporate more! detailed inforfnat.ion cbnceming the- compilafion OF gzzzetteersl theiF availability, how they might; be obtained arid aa eXplaWon offcopyright and other use restrictions. 81; The; United States of AmeriWCanada~ Division presented’ working pager No. 29 describing recent changes in the content of the Canadian, Gelrgraphical Names: Database (s(cNDB), The 1998~1999r re- engineertng of. CGNDB incorpurated substantizrl revis.ions@fihe sygem data-model; the:database design tD@ an: upgra$le of’ the Omcle. Server 18 Oracle WA. The IS@88594 text encoding st@@dardconfinuedzo.be used. Extensive database:conterifi ch3nges and entry recoding have also been made. More general changes to the &NDB include populating all administrative lbcation fields, upgradiq coordinates to seconds and replacing. dual format Indian- Reserve records w.ith sing& see&doubb (E.nglish/French. language] generic entries. The pub.!ication Top._onymSc &t&ases of &@zda f%?8 compiies information on cclz4D.B and povln&l >d_atabsCsesand pravide.4 web sit.e addresses. PrQce&W tot. da& EXW entry are documented in the CfciNDB records @gnual. Although the. manual: is c_tnenll~ an. itltend opera&ma1 do-cumenf,,it coui4sbe distr@QW to. the &oup 0-f Experts in several months WEB its rLeui&~ is complete. The Convener emphasi_ze&that, tlie working group Should assu.rn.ethe task--. of compiling information on database specifications.: for toponymic dafabases already implemented and:,under di?velopment. This collection & dat-a-would s@va as a. resource for caurmies and urganizations initiating database- development. The Working GroupL on Tdponymic Data. Files and Gazetteers would act as a clear&g- hppse for the collectio& ar!&dissemitiation s$Xhese-materials. 82: The: Ara”bic Divisio~u pre,senW!l working paper, No. 77. &scribing the: devel;apnient of the toponymic database:&Algeria. The work- began.with$tt inventory and ana&& of former at@: current foponymic i!I%Qmation in three- dmnxins: s~u_rem cf toponyms, geogqphical’ names and adininlstrative 6reakdowrr. me’ demands on the database WJude serving as a cWQgrapl$ database; man-aging toponymic- i.nforfiation, including3 queryin-g the dafabasq and

f6, GEGN120 topographic map series of Japan. The database included 86. The East Europe Northern and Central Asia geographica! names over the entire country a.nd was Division presented working paper No. .81 regarding ayailable on one CD-ROM.. The main part of the developments in the Russian Federation in the creation d@%ase served as a gazetteer containing a digital file of an automated state catalogue of geographical names. of 381,700. geographical names and 100,700 named The catalogue would indude geographical names of public facilities, Each feature was-assigned a-key point the Russian Federation, foreign countries, world oceans repres~enting the feature position, with coordinates and Antarctica, and would serve a variety of referenced to the Tokyo Datum. Place names were cartographic and information processing needs. A rendered~in the standard Japanese Industrial Standards preliminary registration form for collection of names Kbnji character set, with an-additional font package for information was presented. The catalogue is being Gaiji characters. The data would undergo annual developed by the Federal Service on Geodesy and revision. Users would require a Japanese-language Cartography during 2000, and performance tests ‘will operating, system (e.g., Windows- 98) and a Japanese- be conducted in 2001. tanguage, word processor to use Digital Map 25ODO. There were no immediate. plans to publish a.romanized 87. In response to a lrequest from the Asia South-West version. in It‘s discussion, the Wsrking Group noted Division (other than Arabic), the Working Group that identifleation of information, such as required would prepare recommendations on standard easily computer platforms, character encoding and datums, obtainable software packages for digital data collection was a,prerequisite for, the promotion of international and toponymic database management, as well as text data exchange. it was noted that the cost of the data set encoding standards and fonts. These recommendations would be approximately USS 70, and ahhough the data would benefit countries just beginning work on was. copyrighted permission to use the data -file would national standardization of geographical’ names and b&easily ohtaTnedby contacting GSI of Japan. databasedevelopment. 88. The Convenor requested that the Group of 85. The United States of Am~erica/CanadaaDivision Experts and the working group review the International presented working paper No. 27 describing the Organization for Standardization (ISO) document Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB). ISO/CD 19112, “Geographical infomiation: spatial This national’ repository contained geographical names referencing by geographical identifiers,” pay.ing ~fficlally approved by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN) and particular attention to table 3, “Properties of a otbw “un6fficial” names. CGNDB. supported gazetteer”, and table 4, “Data to be recorded in a production of: l:SO,ODO’and 1:250,006 topographic gazetteer of location instances”. Proposals in this draft maps, fhe toponymy Iayer of the Nationa!.Topographic standard were to be reviewed in connection with. Data Base, the Gazefteer of Canada s.eries, and United Nations resolutions on gazetteer content. standard and customized digital data files. CGNDB Experts’ comments to IS0 would be forwarded through was connected to- Statistics. Canada 1991 population their national standardization organizations or through data. via- the. matching of names records in both data the Working Group Convener by the end of February set.. The regular import. of records into CGNDB from 2000. the. Canadian Hydrographic Service Undersea Feature- 89. The agenda for a digital gazetteer information. Names. Data Base: was being planned. CGNDB exchange workshop, organized by the Alexandria contained over $00,000 geographical names, of which Digital Library and held at Washington, D-C., in approximately 14 per cent were populated places or October 1999, was also available for review. The adwinlstrative~ areas. Each name record, had over 30 expert of the United Kingdom Division who had associated attributes, such as unique. identifier, name participated in the workshop reported that a wide range status codes, feature type, region or territory data and of end-users with an extremely high demand for historic notations. The Internet version of CGNDB authoritative< geographical names information was serviced over Z,rjOO hits per day. Internet access was combined with a regrettably poor understanding of the free, of charge and prices on other products would be work of the United Nations in standardization of reduced:in April 2000. geographical names and the process of national and international- standardization, He saw an urgent need to educate end-users, publish proceedings of pertinent

17 United Nations. ee_Ssi.onsand conferences in a timely 94; The following minor amendments~t6;-~heIGlsSsafy fashion, ensure properly. based enc.oding of were Made at the Seventh Conference; in 199$> geographical names and thegcreation, of specifications. There is an urgent need to ensure that the presentation (a) 079 (p-6): the phr-4% “TLie Frm!i of toponymic data on t-he Internet conforms to equivalent term, is. ‘ethnouyme”L vase added. to this UNCSGN resolution VII/S. e-nitty; 90; The Coavenor concluded the meeting of the (b): 284 (~~17): the word ~(Harr~$I)~ was; Working Group by outlining a work plan to be deleted from thisentry; accomplished before the Berlin Conference in 2002: (c) 294 @IS): the word. “(I&@ii~ w-as. (a) Developa Working Group newsletter; deMed from this entry. Because these:changes were minor;j #t was, decided to (b) Liaise,with-IS0 on draft-standard 19112; retain the i998: edition number oft t&z &@Tsh text- (c) Collaborate with- organizers of the digital (Version 4):~~sthe firsal :version, gazetteers exchange workshop to conduct additional sessionsan,digitaI gazetteer requirements and technical 95. The Canvenor presented working gp%r~No; $2* the report of the Working Grou- ‘a t; 6-L@&g that aspectsofdata-exchange. translations of- the glossary into $ i@xAi~,SPani&, 91. The Convener closed the meeting with the Chinese and Russian had been accomplished, but. th.at announce_mentof a three- or four- day Working Group. a11 four transiations. had to be up&ted. to th_e:(new)- meeting tobe held in one year’s time. The, following Version 4. The translation into Arabic bad been t.opics:wiJf bereviewed at the meeting: misplaced; and he therefore- requeste-d:&at’ thesxpefl from the Arabi-c Division who, @add.@$vio.usly. (a) Toponymic data files; volunteered’ to provide the translation confer with the ’ (b) Design and creation of databases; Secretariat to-resolve-this-matter in:a%ime!y fashion,

(c), TCfpOIlyMiC data-exchanges. 96. The Secretariat provided d-e-ta&&tegardinr., the; 92: Findings of the Working Group wif1 be-presented- issuance of a United Nations pub?icat’i!on. ‘Q-e fin& EngIish text, including any alterations, needled to; $e. at the, Eighth United Nations Conference on tile reviewed by United Nations editors,. who- @oujd Standardiiation of Geographical-Names. forward the t:ext for translation and repr-oduction. Disagreeiments.between- United: Naf,i.ons#@ntiat.ors and. XIIX. Meeting* of&e Working Group experts in a.given ~fecbnicai field’n.~~ded:fP-.~~‘~~.oIred. The reproduced text should be 8ent backfo-%e cr_tbginJ: on Toponymic Terminology translator and, to the Convener 03 ascertain, if any changes bad-&en niade. 93; The Con.venor?opened the meeting. ofthe- Working Group; He. statedthat the Wofking, Group has-consisted. 9.7. The: Group discussed~publicati.~~procedures: au& of a totalof 22 members but that. some are no longer how to publishlorganize the. various. translations of the p,aicipating iu UNGEGNractivities, He. noted-that two glosstuy, i;ei, whether al1 six b~~gu~~e~~~ten~~~~~~~~dj working papers were. submitted fo. the m-eeting, appear separately-or whether they should be:l@nnbiiii?!d~~ working papers Nos. 20 and: 52; No- discussion. of into one multilingual. glossary with each’ term WQrking paper No. 20:took place.due:to the absence of translated, into, the Other flu-e: languages in1 the- same its author, The Convener- announced that the United entry. The- working group; favoured :‘p,ublication.of six Nations Statistics D&is-ion viewed favo.urabIy the separately edited glossariest wit& an. index sf+ill tefm$- transl~ation and. publication of the Glossary of appended to-each: version; Toponymic Terminology, Version C in the six: official 98; The Convener noted the p.ossi& necessJ?y:9f. language& of the: United Nations. A Polish translation reordermg entries in the various.. glosssstuies,~i& of the. Gl.ossary (the subject of- working paper No. 20) whether ihe, English eumbering~ S~@XX &iuld* be was now. ayailable in addition- to the German and adhered- to as a standard or whether- #be.Gequencing of Slovene translations. that had been produced-earher. terms should be based on the- alphabelic order- of.the- . GEGN/20 particular languaga> The China Division. stated that the 102. The paper listed non-Roman script languages as Chinese. translation followed the. EnglEsh numbering identified primarily in the Report of. the Working system. Experts from other divisions proposed, for Group on Toponymic Data Exchange Formats and example, that a cross-referencing rrumbering system for Standards Submitted to the Seventh United Nations all languages other than Engfish~would be beneficial to Conference on the Standardization of Geographical the user. In case an English term. wns not translatable Names (E/CONF.9l/C~P.l1). The first part of the into another language, it was suggested.that rather than report contained the 28 languages covered by the leaving a blank in that particular glosspry, an systems adopted b)l the United Nations Conference on annotation like “not translatable into Spanish” would the Standardization of Geographical Names and a be-advisable. second part incorporated other languages and scripts. A brief characterization of the individual romanization 99. The Convenor proceeded by stating that several systems and information about the perceived degree of translations. of’ the English version- had omitted non- their implementation was also included alongside the Roman- script examples. It was agreed that all bf them should be retained in the.translated glossary versions. tables. The Convertor offered to collatepand proofread all non- 103. Future versions of the document would take into Roman script.exampIes in all the versions. account systems being discussed for Georgian and Korean (working paper.No. 48) and proposed revisions 100. Finally, the Convener suggested the fol1o.win-g of existing systems for Bulgarian (working paper No. production scheriule: 11) and Thai. In addition, the treatment of Arabic (a) All existing versions would be updated to names in Algeria would be: examined (working paper Version 4, including the amendmen&&Me s.upra); No. 78) and the system of- romanization for Persian (b) All existing versions would be submitted to would be amended- (working paper No. 41). The Working Gil~~p was planning a web site and it was thee %‘ratnsfation.and Editorial Division to verify that envisaged.; that this document would be included in they conformed to United Nations for-ma specifications; portable document format (pdf). 104. An expert from the Arabic Division asked how (c) All versions would be returned to the the romanization system for Arabic, which had already translators; production. should be accompli@d in one been adopted by the United Nations, might be month’s timeth.ereafter amended. The Convenor explained that any suggested He also stated-that. the final d~aniEm, should cantain revisions woulii have to be-presented in written form fo the. translators’ name$. since the translations were UNGEGN as the basis of a resolution of the United performed.voluntarily. Regarding the copyright issle; it Nations Conference on the Standardization of was pointed. out that only pro forma. United Nations Geographical Names. approval would-be necessary and that it would begeasy l-05. An expert from the Eastern Europe, Northern and. to obtain. Central Asia Division explained that the many changes taking place within the countries represented by the Division prevented any significant progress in the area of-romanization systems for such languages as Tajtk. It was hoped that information would be presented to the 161: The Convenor named the members, of the Group of Experts in the future, Working Gro-up and presented a;prelimin.ary report on 106. The Arabic Division suggested- that the list of the- current status- of United Nations comanization languages, countries and romanization systems indicate systems (working paper No. 34 and corrigenda). The instances where a cited language was not the first contents: and aims of the. paper were outlined and the language of a country. guidetines for the establishment. of romanization 107. An expert from the Asia East Division (other-than systems,-and the prerequisites for their adoption. were China) drew attention to working- paper No. 48, which briefly explained. included details, of a proposed. revision of the romanizatibn system within the. Republic of Korea to 114. The Working Group noted worl$fig paper No; 73, beXinalized*overthe+zoming year. which highlighted the complexity of; maintaining the TUS. %e Convenor confirmed that information country name listing. contained: in a paper prepared by the Asia South-West 1is. The Chairperson recommended that.the work plan. DiuisiBn (other than Arabic) regarding the for the group inctude: ro-man$ation of Persian (working paper No. 4 1) would be taken into c_onsiderationwhen revising-the report on (a) Continued’ maintenance of an up>%&date romanization systems. country Q’dmelist; 109. Regarding future plans for the- Working Group, (b) Comparison of extant lists to pin@nt and the:Convenor anticipated that a revised version of the resolve. discrepancies; reportwould be pubIished;on the Working Group’s web (c) Expansion of the list to.. &Jude. co-untry site and. would: also be presented’to. the forthcoming names in other.official United NationsJanguages; Eighth United Nations. Conference on the (d) Review of mechanisms, tB disseminate Standardization of Geogmphical Names. effectively the composite list and assoeiaX%lapd‘ates. t10, Providing farther information on the digital presentation of the-feport, the Convenor expiained that as.@pdf file the.document could. be viewed-and. printed XVI: Meeting,~of:the Wori&g Group on in- its entirety without- the aeed for- special fonts. The Publicity a-rid Funding- basic text could also be. edited- if pasted into a word- processed document. The Working Group had agreed 116. TheConvenor of the Working Grouprevi’ewed ifs that. exisfing font sizes would be ticreased’to improve membershfp and reminded the Group.& Exports of the the legibility of the chara-cters and each langugge importance of the promotion of the. benefits of w.ould.be.displayed-on a separate<emet page. consistent naming achieved through acti%- ~~@~amrnas. Ill. Members of the Group of Experts were of n_ational.and-international standardization. encouraged to contact the Convenor or other members 117. Thea Working Group reviewed: work@. gaper ofthe Working Group:-with fu-rther suggestions. No. 74, containing concrete suggestions. for l&king commemorative naming activities till% k,ey. Ufiited Nations commemorative focal points. Slrch.litlkage was XX. ’ Meeting Of the, Workiag; Group on envisaged as a means of gametirrg: greIiter visibiiity of Country Names. the work of’the Group of- Experts a&i’ ilatiot& naming authorities. The expectation was al$o:Pafed that such-a 112. The Working Group expressed regret that the programme of commemorativa namlng~ ti tlsYu-acl%tion Convener could not- b.e-in atteDdance. A member of the with key United Nations activities woul&@tracr:#e:$pect [email protected] Group nofed that the task of comp.iling and and prestige and eventual financial support: ni@tai$&g. an up-to-date and integtal. list of, country t 18. The Working Group went on-to discussist?at#es nameswas daunting, and that the Convener’s expertise for the. distribution of the- promot@n$P tirocX@~‘e,Tha. in tfiis regard was indispensable. ft was the wish,of the fcillowing were among..the, points that wtre:noted: Working- Group that its. Convenor continue h:er very va!ilabIe work in that capacity. (a) ICA would distribute the brochure- urih its newsletter; 1.13. In the Convenor’s absence, the.ChairpersQ-n of the Gm~p> of Experts~presided over the meeting. Working (bl- The United Nations. note: vetbale; p-aperNo. 53 was introduced, containing,approxima@ly announcing sessions>of UNGEGB 8ndr conferences 40 chafl;ges f.o the composite list of coun@y names should &&$da a cogy of&e br@hure’; issued ,flt the 7th Conference. A newer~ version of the (cl Chairs of. each WNGE.GN’ diutsisir would’ composite list is now availal%, containing the Russian supply. copies of. the brochure to, divi’sIon members, by language. oersians@Fcountry names, which will require mail or at divisional. meetings; verifying against Uiiited.Nafions. Terminology BuNe~in No. 347lRev. 1.

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cd): The InstiBut nationa de cartographic et de Working Group that funding arrangements are nomalIy f$lJ@$?ction (INCT Ajgeria) would distribute the internal to the United Nations. The Convenoi requested bruchure with its other: pubiisations; that the Secretariat follow, up on this point and provide the Working Group with the United Nations guidelines (e) Experts, associated. with; academic institutions- would provide copies to stud.ents to help on sponsorship when they become available. educatethe next generation ofexperts; 123. At the conclusion of the Working Group meeting, the Convenor announced that Mr. Munro, expert of the (f) Copies would be distributed srt the United Kingdom- Division, had agreed to be Convenor Interna~jonal Geographical Congress to be held at of the Working Group. Mr. Munro expressed thanks to Seouli Republic ofKorea, in August 2000; Mr. Parker on behalf of the Group of Experts, for his (g) The International Council on Gnomastic outstanding contributions. Sciences would distribute the brochure- with its next newslet.ter; XVII.Toponymic guidelines for map ’ (h) The- UinltZsd Nations would take steps to editors and other editors distribute the brochure internally tu relevant United Nations offices; 124. The United States of America/Canada Division 0) Thehrmhure would be distributed to members presented working paper No. 6, a joint effort of experts of reggfonal~artogmphic orgrmizations and consortia; in Canada and Finland. The paper was a digest of a larger document submitted for pubiitation in Nomina (j) The. Nafional Geographical Qrganization of Africana. It contained a brief history of toponymic the. IsI~i@~lcRepublic of Iran would “publish the guidelines in the work of UNGEGN, and a summary. Grochure-in its four geographical p,etio-dicals; listing of countries that have issued toponymic 119. The Working Group discussed the- pasfing of the guidelines. The coaauthor of the paper requested that broi?mre in: digital form on toponymic web- s&&s.The Experts provide her with corrections and updates to the- brochure %!a$-available in digital port&k document summary listing. format and no. obstacles to its electronic dissemiaation 125. The United States of AmerlcaBZanada Division were- noted. presented working paper No. 30, an update on the- 120; The Working- Group also discussed.the- prospect status of features in Canada, with official names of @anslating. the English text of the brochure into standardized in both English and French for use in othgr languages. The Secretariat reported that a request federal government maps. The original version of the for foxmal United. Nations translation could be paper was issued as working paper No. 36 at the submitted, but no commitment could be made at this eighteenth session of UNGEGN, in 1996: The paper t.ime. The Secretariat further noted that unofficial covered.updates for each category in Can-adafor which translations were permitted, as long as a disclaimer was dual names might be approved, and. included a list of included stating, that the.. United Nations was not. features.of. pan-Canadian significance; It was ‘noted fhaf responsibie. fcrr- the translation. The Secretariat would the use of both names in .federal government cooperates %8th experts to ensure the appropriate cartography depended on map scale and whether the- ~wortling ofisuch disclaimers, map was bilingual. a~,. TEe drafting and publication, of other promotional 126. Working paper No. 21 was pre-senfed by the East brochures were discussed. and encouraged. Other Central and South-East Europe Division, and included working groups with ideas for, promotional material, revised toponymic guidelines for Poland, necessitated including videos, were advised to submit their by the new territorial-administrative~ structure in that requirements to the Working Group on Publicity and country. Funding, who would then:formuIate funding strategies. 127. The Asia South-West Division (other than 122.. The pots s’bil’t I 1 y of activity* sponsorship with Arabic) presented working paper No. 41, revised ext.ernaI organizations as a means to secufe funding toponymic guidelines, i.ss_ued:Qthe Islamic Republic of +vas also broa-ehed; The Secretariat informed: the Iran. The revision constituted the second edition of the guidelines. The Group a$ Experts expressed Division. Hitherto, there hams been. uu- d_if&tIties appreciation &r the inclusion in. the. guidelines; of the transliterating non-Arabic- place. aantes inf@ Af&lc- system-of-tomanlzation for Persian script. script. 128. nie new toponymic guidelines of ftaly were 133. In concluding the agenda item; the Group of presented by the Romano-Hellenic Division in working. Experts generally agreed on the recomm.end@l?msser paper No. 86. The:new. version was the second.forma1 out below. edition of the guidelines, the first. having been-:issued in 134. DNGEGN. Division chair. shouldqctively engage 1998 and a- preliminary version. in 1.987.The status of Division members in- the drafting bfi naticmat Ladin as one of three subgroups of the Rhaeto- toponymic guidelines. and their s.ubmisston. to Romansch language was noted. UNGEGN. 129, The Romano-Hellenic Division also presented 135: UNGEGN should encourage the publi@@on end working paper No. 90, a revision of the toponymic dissemination of toponytnic guidelines in conventional- guidelines; of Greece. The new edition included booklet form, and even; more actively; promolZ the improvements in presentation; incsrporation of a new posting of toponymie guidelines on;Xnt’etiret wehti~es, section on the use of the romanization system ELOT 743 that included three different tables for tran.sliteration, transcription and reversible Wll?. Emnyms transcription; an expanded list bf generic terms and abbreviations; and other minor changes, particularly on 136. Tlie:East Central and South;E‘~~~~ro~~~Divi.sion the new. administrative divisious of the country. A presented @orking paper No. 4, a concise list of corrigendum was issued to correct a. typographical exonymslmed by the Czech Republic for pIaces in the problem in theromanitation table. former USSR, and working paper No; 65, 8‘ list: of 130. Working- paper- No. 47, presented by the East selectedexonyms used in Hungary, Central. and South&EastEurope Division, described the 137. The Nofaen Division introduced; @prklng @aper third edition of SIovakia’s toponymic guidelines. The No. 75, summarizing a conferem? rrn fCRfi@E names, new ed&i.on.included the new territorial-administrative held i at @lo in May 1997, noting: that several SF the structure- of the country. A limited number of copies conference speakers argued strongly in favour of the had been. distributed at the current session, but Slovak us-e of exonyms in certain context& as. a means of- and. English versions of the guidelines are available on easing communication, the mtemet. 138. The East Mediterranean lJiv@lon~ (oilier than 131. ln working paper No. 14, the Baltic Division Arabic) submitted working paper No. 53; co@lBiQ a noted. that the Estoni.an Place Name.s.Act of January list of donor-recommended English exonyf&is:.~orplaces 1997, presented at the Seventh QNC&GN, is currently in- Israel. The Division reported- th% these ~~~yywis availabIe in official- English; translation. The AR has were noteworthy because of their us!%h: Brael%a; road been amended twice since ifs entry into force. The signs erected-by the Public Works [email protected]& Gr.oup:zof Experts noted in. this context the general notionof the legal status of place name spellings and-of 139; Working paper- No. 3 i from.. the F$e&ch+qe&ing national names authorities. It was recommended that Division contained a general ov$zv&%v 0-f the this: subject; be considered as a future agenda item and contemporary stafe of the. qse. of txonym.!~ am! as a topic to be treated. intopottymic training.courses. stiinulated discussion amung the Croup. af &pet@ about trends of exonym usage. The: aioup @ l%perts. l&2, fire Arab.ic-Divisionpresented workingpaper No. reached general consensus.that the use of exo!tyms in ?&cov.erin~ #he:draft. toponymic guidelines of Algeria-. cartographic applications- ought to be: redtme-& in Of.partlcu& c.oncem to the- commission on toponymy broader contexts, members af UNCEGN identified currently in place in Algetia.are issues of romanization situations (e.g;, humanitarian telief~asslstance~safety of and consistent name spelling. The Group of Experts navigation)‘where, us.e of exonyms couldbe ofcllritiial discussed at length the use- of Arabic. script for the vplue. UNGEGN conch!ded that, creation: of- gew~. representation of non-Arabic pl@e names. and agreed exonyms (eg., through casual translation ac foreign that. the topic deserved. the. Bttention of the Arabic

22 pIa= names) was tabe discouraged, and that there was XX. Progress made on archiving continuedutility in drafting lists of exonyms in use. documents XIXStand’ardiiatia-fl in multilingual 145. Working paper No. 8 was presented, containing a summary of results- of a two&phase inventory of areas: documents related to the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names and the t40, The United Stares. of America/Canada Division United Nations Group, of Experts on Geographical introduced working paper No. 49, covering the topic of Names. The project resulted in the creation of a place name translation and regulation in the bilingual spreadsheet file identifying relevant papers and their environment of Ontario. In accordance with federal and locations within Unifed, Nations Headquarters in New provincial statutes, three categories of place name York. Assistance would be needed from experts in spellings could evolve in Ontario: the official name, keeping the file updated and locating missing the officiaIIy recognized alternate name and the French documents. text equivalent. The working paper addressed issues associated with the latter category of name spellings, 146. Working paper No. 23 presented a summary of arrived at. through the application of translation rules, papers available at the Research Institute for the for. text purpose; The Group- of Experts c~ontrastedthe Languages of Finland. The Group of Experts practice. iE Ontario- with the practice in Finland, where considered but did not resolve questions related to the translations oftraditionaI:place names are avoided. digitization of United Nations papers; however, there was a consensus that the objective of the Group of t41. The East Mediterranean Division (other than Experts ought to be the rapid and widespread. AraG@).prese!ed working paper No, 54 on proposals dissemination of new and important UNGEGN and within IsraeI on the transliteration of Hebrew place Conference papers. The role of the Secretariat in names into Arabic. Phonological dlstinctions between assisting in information dissemination, both Hebrew and Arabic led~ to certain innovative electronically and in hard copy, was deemed essential. recommendations (involving the use of Persian and Malay letters) that have been submltted to the. Academy ofXhe.Hebtew. Language. for consideration. XXI. Implementation of resolutions and 142. Working paper Ns. 66; submitted by the Norden the aims and functions of.the Division, summarized the &ration regarding the Saami United Nations Growp oft Experts orthographies- already covered in the division’s on Geographical Names respective tupanymic guidelines. it. was noted that appIication of Saami names .OH maps might differ 147. The United Nations Cartographic Section among the: constItui?n& mem.bets of the Norden presented-working paper No; 71, describing its efforts Divis~ion, but that the) n&s%!:common orthographies for to implement a United Nations geographical database North Saami and, Lult Saami are” being introduced to support a variety of United Nations requirements for gradually, representation of geo.spatiai information on a global 143. The AfrlcaSouth Division reported that in South basis. The Section had established partnerships in the Africa. it wsu?d. be, the- respuns?_b‘ilityof the South private sector to assist with concept development, and Afrjcafl;GeograghrclallNam~s- Council to adviseao.n.the a proposal to the United Nations Foundation was in the pruuze~sof i?entIfj%@. regulating* and applying place evaluation stage. The Section had noted the importance names in that mu_ltlling& country~ it identified local of standard and authoritative place name spelling, and indigenous usage- as a key criterion for place name sought to establish a formal relationship with the select&n. Group of Experts. The Cartographic Section also described its web site and offered to post information 144, The Qoup of Experts: encouraged the use of its on it promoting the work of the Group of Experts, ne.wsIetter, web sites, and natIoneat toponymic guIdelines as means of publicizing national rules for 148. Working paper No. 32, presented by the French- application of names.in, multilingual areas. speaking Division, outlined information available at the web site of the Commission de toponymie du

23 Quebec. In- +xdc!ition-to the Quebec geQgraphica1.names group is not in existence, untn its fnandate Is- furry. database, there were approximately g,QDa. items determined). relating to. the origin of specific place. names and numerousother’documents and information resources, 154. The Dutch- and German-speaking l&&ion-: presented working paper No. 67: and explained t&t; in 14% Working paper No. 63 was presented- by the Austria, names standardlzation activRie.s oc;cuEzd at United States of America/Canada Division and several levels in the national- adminhrtrative hierarchy. summarised: documentation concerning UNGEGN and To im,pfove.coordinatiQn, a working gfo_rrp- of,the@oard its: activitiles available at the web s-ite of the Canadian on Geographical Names of Au.s,triaandqhe Conference Permanent Committee on Geographical Names. of Spartial Planning. had been forme& It- has..made 150. Working Gaper No. 9.4> also submitted by the fo-real recommendations on- barn@ speJ!i:q; in, the United States.of America/Canada Division, included a gazetteer of the Austrian StatisticaL’01&e, and: the: list o.f web-site addresses ide.ntified in papers submitted maps of the Federal Office of hl&rohs~y and S.urveying. These names are n0.w ob1@V%$ for as3,~,n. to thetwentieth session of UNGEGN. official products. 151. The United States of America/Canada Division presented working pap.er No. 35, updatmg. the status of 155. Working- paper No. 69, which v@sj pres%?nt~eaby the, United Stat-es Board on Geographic Names the,Dutch- and Germanqeaking Di.visoai @r-m?i:tized: domestic data, compilation programme. The second the implementation toi date of: the @thogr@h%?!reform, phase of the programme was ae.aring completion, and a ofthe German language in the contex~aBpl@~~trames. third phase was contemplated to bring all state files to in”Austria, the same-comprehensive level. 156. The; United States of America?Gan;lda Ditision presented working paper No. 7, drrScribin$: an lSZ;r The Division also presented worki.ng paper No. innovative project Involving; the qse.:SE st@&rdized 38, providing status of state.names authorities in the toponyms asa s$arting po& for~stu?&R+to learn #bout United, State& It was noted that state boards provided the history and cultureof C&u@& A

24 ITZ20. in particular, views of the group were sought on session agenda) and No. 9 (the draft agenda for the whether this resolution would be applied to maritime, next session). features, and if so to what extent. The Chairperson 164. The Group concluded that the’ twenty-first session agreed to discuss the matter with the UNGEGN of UNGEGN would bracket the Eighth Conference and Secretariat and to seek their assistance to clarify its would be held on 26 August and 6 September 2002. interpretation (an expert from Japan disagreed with the The meeting on 26 August 200’2 would be devoted to text of this paragraph). organization of the conference; the- meeting of 6 160. In other matters, the Group of Experts agreed that September would focus on the evaluation of the tit least two issues of the Newslerrer- should be constitution of working groups. The United Kingdom pubiished before the. Eighth Conference. The question Division recommended that at its next session the of the publication of volume II of the report of the Group of Experts consider the election of two Seventh Conference was also discussed. The Group rapporteurs in recognition of the complexity of daiIy agreed that the essential point was the. urgency in minute-taking and the drafting of session reports. The disseminating Conference material, and the Chairperson agreed to follow up on the Chairperson would discuss with the Secretariat how recommendation. best to carry this out. 165. The Group of Experts touched briefly on the proposed agenda for the twenty-second session of XXfIJ$ighth United Nations UNGEGN, the next full session. There was no Conference on the objection to shortening the session to eight days. it was agreed that an agenda item be added on the legal status Standardizatitin of Geographical of geographical names. Names

161. The expert from Germany, the host country of the XXIV. Other matters Eighth Conference, presented working paper No. 62, summarizing the arrangements being made in Germany 166. The expert from the East Central and South-East in preparation for the conference. The conference Europe Division presented a demonstration of a would be held from 27 August to S September 2002 at scanned version of the National Atlas of Slovenia and the Conference Centre of the German Ministry of the Digital Atlas of Slovenia (working paper No. 97). Foreign Affairs Berlin. A technical exhibition on the theme of GIS, cartography and. geographical names XXV. Adoption of the report would be held in conjunction with the conference. A toponymic training course organized by the host country would be held during the two. weeks preceding 167. The Group of Experts accepted the report as the conference. Adarinistrative and Q&ticaI amended during its reading (two expressions of dissent arrangements for the conference would be announced were noted; see paras. 153 and 159). through the UNGEGN Newsletter. 162. The Group of Experts expressed appreciation to XXVI. Vote of thanks the tepr-esentative of Germany for the reception held at the German House during- the twentieth session and for 16.8. Thanks were variously expressed to the the informative video presentation about. the Chairperson, Vice-Chairman, Rapporteurs, Working Conference and its venue; Group Chairs and Rapporteurs, the Secretariat and conference services staff for their contributions to the session. XXIII. Twenty-first session of the G-rtioupof Experts-: 163; The Chairperson- drew the attention of the Group of Experts to information papers- No. 2 (the current

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WFti Finish National&andSurvey’s GeographicNames Register (submittedby Finland) wp.2 Reportof the Africa South Division (submittedby South Africa) WP3 Developmentof “Digital Map 2S$OO(Geographic names andpublic facilities)” (submittedby Japan)- wp.4 A conciselist&f-the new Gzechexonymsconceming fhe former USSR (submittedby the Czech Republic) WE?5 Nsuveile commissjonde toponymie pour I;‘Institut g$ographiquenational (submittedby France) HtP.6 Toponymic guidelinesfor map andother editorsfor internationaluse: an overview of existing guidelinesand UNGEGN work to date (submittedby Canada) wP.7 StandardizedCanadian geographical names: a backbonefor a 18 new educationalCD-ROM (submittedby Cgnada) WP.8 Creatinga compendiumof technicalpapers submitted to the 0 United NationsConference on the Standardizationof GeographicakRamesandUNGEGN (submittedby Canada)- wP.9 Working,Groupon Publicity and Funding Report.(submitted 7 by the Working Group on-Publicity and Funding) WP.10‘ AsiaSouth-Eastand:Paeific, South*est 0DivisionrepQrt s (submittedby the@jvisiQn) WP. tl Report.on-thefifteenth sesslon~f~e~astCentrat.~d 5 South-EastEurope Division ofUNGEGN@&mitted by Slovenia) WP.12 ReportofSIoveniaon the fiAe:~th~~e~sio~~~~e.~ast 5 Central and South-EastEurope Ritisionof XJNGEGN (submittedby Slovenia) wP.IS Reportofthe UnitedXingdom Division (submitted.bj$he United fLingdom) WP.14 Legistationin Estoniacgttcerning geographicalnames (submittedby Estonia)1 WFtts

WP.I6 5

wP.17 5 WP.18 -(withdrawn) Placenames asevidenceaf hiswry: the caseof historic S Nubia(submitted by the Sudan) WP.19 and Corr. 1 Survey ofNubian place. names(submitted$y&e Sudan) I wP.20 Glossaryof terminology used.in the.standardization of 19. geographicalnames ,(submitted by Poland)

26 WP.21 Toponymicguidelines of Poland for map editors and other -14 users (submitted&y- Poland) wP,22 Place names: the. memory of places (theme of European 5 Heritage Days in FinIand 1999) (submitted by Finland) WP.23 Report of Finland (submltted by Finland) 17 WP.24 Working Group onEvaluation and Implementation 7, 18 (submitted,by the. Republic of Korea and South Africa) wp.25 Report ofthe Baltic Division (submitted by Latvia) WP.26 Geographlcalnames workshop (submitted by Canada) WP.27 Presentationto the International Cartographic Association on the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (submitted by Canada) WP.28 Products available from the Canadian Geographical Names 9 Data Baseandfrom provincial namesauthorities (submitted by Canada) WP.29 Recentdevelopment concerning the content ofthe Canadian 9 GeographicatNames Data Base(submitted by Canada) WP.30 and Cot-r. 1 WptlafeOnC%nadianfeatures with official names 14 standardizedin both EngIish and French and their portrayal onCanadianfederal government maps (submitted by Canada) wp.3 1 Les exonymes:desobjectifs a preciser(submitted by IS Canada) WE32 Lesressources d’lxitemet au servicede la normalisationdes 18 nomsgeographipues (submitted by Canada) WP.3 3 ana Rev. I List of country names(submitted by the Working Group-on 12 Count.ryNames) WP.34 and Corr. 1 UnitedNationsromanization systems for geographical II names:preeliminary report on their current status(submitted by the Working Groupon RomanizationSystems) WP.35 Nafional StandardizationOffice Treatmentof Names: I8 geographicalnames data compilationprogramme of the United States.ofAmerica (domestic)(submitted by the United,Statesof Amefica) WP.36 Toponymiedata ,files national gazetteers:digital gazetteerof 9 the UnltedSfates~ctl’Xmerica(submitted by the United States of America) WP.37 PanAm-e&an institot_e_of Geographyand History report ‘6 (submittedbylhe Institute) WP.38 Measurestaken andproposed to implementUnited Nations 18. resolutionson the-st~an@diZationof geographicalaames: State namesautharities-of the United Statesof America (submittedby the United Statesof America) HIP39 Reportof the Norden Division (submittedby Sweden) J WP.40.~ Reportofthe tstamic Republicof Iran (submittedby the 5 Idamie RepuGliii&hn) WP.4 1 Toponymic guidelines for map and othereditors, revised 14 edition, 1998 (submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran) Wp.42 Council of Geographic Names Authorities (submitted by the United States of America) WP.43 Conventional gazetteer of.the United States of America P (submitted by the United States of America) WP.44 Rep.ort of the United States/Canada Division+ubmittsd by 5 the United States of America) WP.45 National standardization office treatment! off-shore features I 8: (submitted by the United States of America) WI?46 Report of the Working Group on Gazetteemand Toponymic 7. Data Files for the Period 1998-1999 (submitted by the United States of America) WP.47 Edition of toponymic guidelines formap and other editors 14: (submitted by Slovakia) Wp.48 Recent changes in geographica? names ofKorean cities and 5. other developments {submitted by the Republic of Korea) WP.49 From English to French: new trends in the.@anslation of 3.6. geographical names in Canada (submitted by Canada) WPSO Country Report: Malaysia-(subtnitted by Malaysia) 5 WP.51 International CartographicExhibition, Ottawa, ICA 1993 6 (submittedby Canada) WP.52 Reportof the Working Group on Toponymic Terminology 10’ (submittedby Israel) WP.53 and Corr. 1 New list of donor-recommendedexonyms in Israel is. (submittedby Israel) WP.54 A new transliterationsystem from Hebrewinto Arabic 16. (submittedby. Israel) wP.55 Changesin geographicalnames in-Hungary arfecting. 5: popuIatedplaces and administrativedivisliins between 1 January’1996and. 1 January 2000(submitted by Hungaryj WP56 Origen de ta palabra“Perti” (submittedby Peru) 5 WP.57 and Cot-r. l Report of the International HydrographlcOrganization 6; (submittedby IHO) WP58 Report oftheDufch- and.G~-~pn-speaking-~ivision.fotJhe 5 period 1998-1999(submitted by Germany) wP.59 SecondInternational SymposiumQn:G.eographical Names; 6. “GeoNatnes2000”, Frankfurt am Main, 28-30 March 2000Isubmitted by Germany) WP.60. Reporton UNGEGN liaise-nwithtie Scientific Committee on.Antarctic ,[email protected] Germany) m61 Concisegazetteer of Germany(submitted by Germany) WP.62 Qrganizationalmeasurestaken by the host country for preparing.theEighth United NationsCQnference on she Standardizationof Geographical-Names,Berfin, 27 August-5 September2002$submitted by Germany) ,. .~.-., NO. ~tle/coUntry/diVlJiOn/workmg gMvP Agenda item -_.. .--_ .- .._- * wP.63 UNGEGN documentation availabte on the Canadian 18 Geographical Narrues.Web Site, Natural Resources Canada (submftted by Canada) Reportof Africa East Oivision (submitted by Mozambique) 5 SeIec#ed cxonyms-used in Hungary (submitted by Hungary) is Saami languages in Norden (submitted by Sweden) 16 Recommendation No. 46 of the Austrian Conference of I8 Spatial Planning (submitted by Austria) WE?68; Geographical Names Data Base: Austria (submitted by 18 Austria) wP.69 lmpfementation of orthographic reform in Austrian 18 cartqgra@fic productsand gazetteers (submitted by Austria) WP;70 Repartofthe Fnterriational Council of Onomastic Sciences 6 (submitted by Austria) wP.71 U&ted Nations geographic database (submitted by the 18 Cartographic Section of the United Nations Secretariat) WPi72. Report of’the former Yugostav Republic of Macedonia 5 (submittedby the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) QT.73 List@? noms-de pays(submitted by Canada) 12 WI% Pour use-meflleure visibilite du Groupe d’Experts: Nations 13 Unics:programmc~deccommemoration toponymique vutorisantc le calendrier des celebrations des Nations Unies Report ofNorden Division (submitted by the Division) 5 Rep~rtofIsrael (s&n&ted by IsraeL) 5 Rc#sation dune base de donnees des noms gtographiques 9. (submitted by Algeria) WP.78 Projet de directive: les&critures sur une carte (submitted by 14 Algeria) wP.79 Rapport de la division francophone (submitted by France) 5 WI?80 Report of the. Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia 5 Divisjon (submitted by the Russian Federation) WE81 Status report-on development of the Russian Federatian’s 9 Stafe catafngue of geographical names (submitted by the Russian Federation) WE82 CX&‘$cation.of the populated localities on the 1:600,000 5 scafe-rnap of the Azerbaijan Republic (submitted by Azerbaijan) tVPs83 atndCon 1 Report-of the Convener of the Working Group on training 8 courses inloponymy, 19983000 (submitted by the Working Group) rn84 Report of zhe.Intemational Cartographic Association 6 (submitted-by the Association) WP.85 and Corr. I Report of the Romano-HeIIenic Division (submitted by the 5 Division)

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WE86 Nationaf-standardization: toponymic gui&Iines for -map and 14 other. editors, Italy (second edition, 1999) (submRted6y Italy) wP.87 Reportaf the Republic of Cypas@ubmitfed by Cypru-s) WP.88 Rapport: activites du Maroc, 1998-2000 (submitted-by Morocco) WP.89 Report of the Africa South Division. (submitted by South 5: Africa) %VP,QDand.Corr. 1 Toponymic guidelines of Greece (s.?rbmftte. by Gr&ce) 14:. wP.91 P&lication of a concise gazetteer of Grce~ce

Utinumbered documents Survey ofthe Libyan. Arab Jamahiriya: a summ@y (submitted 6y the Libyan: Arab.: Iamahiriya~ Closing remarks fro-m the Chair of:tbe,twentleth~~~s~~o~ Press releases; opening and closing of the seWn

30, Infomi3xtion papers

No. me

INEl Statut.e and rules of procedure of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names INF.2 ProdSiohFd agenda. tNF.3 Provisionallistof documents INF.3 List of documents INE4 and Rev. 1 PWisionaIiist of participants and list of documents INF.3 (a] (English) Resolutions adopted at the Seven United Nations Conferenceson the Standardization of Geographical Names (1967,1972,1977, 1982,1987, 1992,1998) INF.5 (b) (French) R&o!utions ddoptces par les sept conferences des Nations Uniessur las normalisation des noms gtlographiques (1967, 1972, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1998) INF.6 (update) Names and addresses of UNGEGN experts INE7 Repun of the Chairman INF.8 (EiFj Provisional agenda for the Eighth Conference INE9 (E/F) Provisional agenda for the twenty-first session ofthe Group of Experts INF.10 List of documents by agenda item Amex II

(Angola, Burundi, Cameroon,’ Central African Republic, Chad; (Jongo, Democratj$ Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea+ G.&on, Rwanda* Sao.Tome and9rincip@; (Absent)

Africa Fast-Diuigiiotl (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Maur@iis Mozambique,@ Sey@re!les; SWazIland, Uganda, UnTfed- Republic OF Tanzan& Zambia, Zimbabwe) (Absent)

Africa: South. Divbiop

@orswarm, Ls~otho, Malawi, MozambiqueJ Namibia,. South Africa: Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe) i? W- Mtbembeu Head, Place Names Unit. (South Africa) LE Mathenjwa. Chairperson, South Africa Geographical. (South Africa) Names Council Luis Abraham0 Chief of Cartography Division, Direc@ (Mozambique), National de Geografia e,Csdastro,.Mi.~ist~ti~: da Agricultura e Pescas Tomb Bernardino National Director* Direc@o National ,de (Mozambique) Geografia e Cadastro, Minister% da Agricuftura e Pescas AIexaridre Uisse-Cliidit@atembue, Head of Geomatic. Departme& Dkec$o (Mozambique) National de Geografia+Cadastro, MiiistW! da Agricultura e:Pescas

Africa West. Division

(Benin: Burl&m Faso, Cape Verde, C&e d’Ivoire,’ Gambfa, Ghanal Guinea; Guinea~f%ssau, Liberia, Mali,’ Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Siet-ra:Leone* Togo) (Absent) Arabic Divisio_n (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), Nasser Sultan Al-Harthy: Head of the National Survey Authority, @man) Ministry of Defense 1brah.M. Zoqurti- Chairman of Geographical Names (Jordan) Committee, Royal Jordanian Geographical Centre Saliem Kh#tlifeh Director-General, Royal Jordanian (Jordan) Geographic Centre Morreayp:A!~SbaLaraai. (Saudi Arabia) Abdullah Al-Oraini Research and Development Manager, (Saudi~Arabia) Military Survey Dept. Eid M.oosa Al-Motairi. Field Edit Manager, Military Survey (Saudi #Arabia) Department Mohammed Al-Shaharani Geographic Names Manager, Military Survey (Saudi Arabia) Department Yousif Alkalifa Abu Bdir Chairman, Sudanese National Committee for (Sudan2 Geographical Names, Ministry &%nvey and Physical Development Nasr-fbrahim Hassaneio General Secretary, Sudanese National (Sudan) Committee for Geographical Names; Ministry of Survey and Physical Development HermmBell Consultant (Sudan) Mohamed’Ebrahim Al-Madsixwi DeputyVice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, (Unite~dArab Emirates) United Arab Emirates University, Head of Gazetter Research Project Khalifa Al-domaithi GIS Expert, Survey Department (United Arab. E~mitates) Khalid Al-Malahi Geomatition, Survey Department (United.Arab Emirates) Abdulla Ssleh Al-Saleh Geographical Planner (Head of-zoning (United’Arab Emirates) Updating Unit) Brahitn Atori Chef du laboratoire de toponymie, Institut (Algeria) national de cartographic Abdelaziz Medjrab Directeur de le cartographfe, Service (Algeria) geographique et de tdledetection de l’armee

35 Abdelhadi.Tazi Membre de I’Academie duRoyau-ma-dir (Morocco)- Maroc et President de la Commission. national de4opqnymie Mohziiwd AlaCiaa Chefdu service de Tadocumentation (Morocco). cartographiqne, Cartoth&queet phofoIh@ue-: nationale, Direction de.oadastre.etIal cartographic HamidxOuzzise Ghefdu service de topographie g&t&ale, (Morocco) Direction de cadastre et la cartographTe Marwan-SonIcat. __Manager, Public Relations, GeneraT (Syrian Arab Republic) Establishment of-Surveying Mohamed Has_a~~Idris General Director, General EstabIisb.r@enWf (Syrian Arab Republic) Surveying Brahim Yonsuf Head of Street and Area Naming DepWm@iI? C&tar) Aawar; Siala Director-General, Reseaxhand PlanBn~ (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) Surveying Department of%he,LibymAra% Jamahiriya Abdtili~~~:&utbila Popular Committee for-Foreign Liaison a3rgi (Libyan&tab Jamahiriya) and international Cooperatjon AB&dc!i ACFOrb% Surveyor Department, Office of Cartography (JAbyaw Ar.ab Jamahiriya), SectIon

(Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Japan, Republic of-Korea) Wn, Joo-seok Deputy Director-General for International

Rim, LshangGuk Ambassador+Deputy Permanent Representati-v&to- (Democtatic Pe.ople’a. the United Nattons Repub& of~iea)~. GEGNIZ)

Cboe; Myung Nam, First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United (Demscratic People% Nations RepubIic- of Korea) Nbbuo Nagri Director, Topographic Department, Geographical (Japan) Survey Institute, Ministry of Construction Y&o YSaagi$awa Official, United Nations Administration Division, mpalfJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yuji Kumamaru Minister, Permanent Mission to the United Nations WvW Yoshitaka Kitazawa First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United. CWan) Nations

Asia South-East and Pacific South-West Division {American Samoa, Australia; Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Wands, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic,d Malaysia, Myanmar,. New Zealand, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vret Nam; Chair: Brian Goodchild) John P&&r RegistrzrofGeographic Names for Victoria (Australia) Post Chairman, Committee for Geographical Names for Australasia Mohamed A. MaJid Director-General, Department of Survey and Mapping walaysia)

Asia Gouth-West Division (other than Arabic)*

(Afghanistan, Azerbaijan,’ Cypru~,~ Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey,’ Yugoslavia;’ Chairman of the Division: N. H. Malmirian) Hamid 4Mslmirian Head, Iranian National Geographical (Islamic. Republic of Iran) Organization Nasser~Mohammadi Director, Iranian National Geographical (Islamic Republic of-Iran) Organization Abbas Safarian Nematabad Director, Boundaries Department, Minisfry of (Islamic. Republic of Iran) Foreign Affairs BehrovH’adgari Expert, Iranian National Geographical (Islamic- RepubIicofWm). Organization

Baltic Division (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) Peetef Pill1 Head, Department of Grammar, Institute of (Eston~ia) the Estonian Language l For Cypfuus,,seealso Rolaano-Hellenic DWsion.

35 GEGNlfO___.-.~-

Elvi Sepp Senior Official, Department of Local Governril.efi: (Estonia) and Regional Development, Ministry of InteAr&.. Affairs; Secretary of the Estonian Place N.ames, Board Vifa&rautniec.e Head of Lab-oratory of Toponymy, S&e Land (Latvia) Service of the Republic of Latvia Zane Cekula Senior Desk Officer, Laboratory of Toponym$,, (Latvia) State Land Service of the Republic of Latvia

Celtic Division* (France! Ireland) Donall MacGiola Easpaigh Chief Place Names Officer, Place Names Officer (Ireland)

Cl@ia Division (China) Du.Xiangming Honorary Direclor, Reseafch Institute of Toponymy> (Chi;tral) StatesBureauof Surveying and Mapping Wang Jitong Chairman, China Language/Geography Division, (China) General Director, China Ins_tituteof Toponymy Jin Ergang General Director of Administrative Regions an& (China) Geographical Names Management, DepartmentGf the Ministry of Civil Affairs Fan Yi Senior Editor, China Cartography Publishing House. (China) Liu Lianan Researcher, China Institute+fToponymy (China) Zhu Jian Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (China)

(Austria, BeIgj,um,k Germany, Nelhertands, South. Africa? Suriname,’ S.w%@3@@$ Ghairman of the Division: J. Sievers) Isolde Hjrusner Chair, Academy of Sciences,Qesterreichische {Austria) Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut fuer Oesterreichische Dialekt-und Namen&xika

+ For France, see.&0 French-speaking-Division. l * For Bdgium, see also Romano-Hellenic Division; for South.Africa, see aI$o Africa South Division.

36 MB_rtiniatz MinistetPlenlpotentiary, Permanent Mission to the (German-y!) Unit&Nations ~letmar$W’nreI~h Pfesidentof the Federal Agency for Cartogfaphy and. {Germany) Geodesy Gbrisfi~-@EleitboPf Counselor, Permanent Mission to the Unite-&Ntifians (Germany) Jbrn Sievers Chairman, Permanent Committee on Geographical CGermany) Names flerml Edtiin BeinstGn Secretary, Permanent Committee on Geographical @iemany) Names FerjanDI8@eling Professor, Utrecht University; Faculty &5eog&phicaf (Netherlands) Sciences,Cartography Department L. Ch. J. D. Stiillings First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United Nations @etherlands) A-. P; Valkeifb‘urg Second Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United mtherlands) Nations M@n3kasRtIhlBwzi First Secretary, Permanent Mission to the United Nations (SSwitzerland~:

East Ccatrai andSouth-East Europe Division*

(Albania, Bosnia atid H&zegoviiia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cypru~,~ Czech Republic, Grwe,“’ Hungary, .Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the former YugwJav Republic of @@wIorila, “Turkey! Ukraine,” Wgwbvia; Chairman of the DiWon: Milan OroZen

Milan OfoZen AdamE Presidintlof the Commission for Standardization of (Slovenia) Geographical Names, Geographical Institute Scientific Research, Center for theTSlovene$ Academy of Sciences and Arts Pi’esident6f%he Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre-Authority Se.c>ndSecretary, Permanent Mission to the United IWoms Senior Official, Department of Lands and Mapping, Ministry of Agriculture and R%zgI?mal Development N$ulaJankavic Assistant Federal Minister for Economics (Yugcslaviax

* FwQpus~@l Greece, see e!So R~~a6~Hflletiic Division; for Turkey, se-e$MM~a SouIh+West Div&im.(ol&r thandrabiej> for U&aine-aidBulgaria, see also EammEuroope, Northetmtid. QBfM: Asia:Oivisim

3T Bragan. Markovic Director, Military Geographical.lnstifute. (Yugoslavia) lovm:Mirfloyic Counsellor, Permanent Wssion to theUnited (Yugoslavia) Nations GotanStevcevslrf Second,Secretary, Permanent MissfonxtoHhWnitet {the former Yugoslav Nations Republic of Macedonia)

Eastern Eflrope,. Nol*thern and Cen:tral A-$ia Division [Armenia; Azerbaijan,r Belarus, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Russian FederaI1o.n; Ukraine;’ Uzbekistan; Georgia, Tajikistan; Chairman oftie Division: W BogQi$kfi v. Postnov Chief of Section, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign (Russia) Affairs v. Bogjnsky Chief of Section, CentralScientific ResearchBtst.itufe of (Russia) Geodesy+Airsurvey an&Cartography Adil Snltanov Chairman, State Committee for Geodesy and: (Azerbaijan). Cartography Serlk Zbanibekw First Secretary of the Permanent Mission-to 4he UnI.@d (Kazakhstan) Nations

East Mediterrapeali. Division. (other than Arabic)* (Cyprus,’ Israel; Chairman of the Division: N. Kadmon) Naftali Kadmos Emeritus- Professor of Autography, Geography (Israel) Department, Hebrew University of lerusalem

(Beigium~ Benin,’ Cameroon: Canada,’ C&e d’IvoireP France!. Lao Peo@$s.. Democratic Republic,” Luxembourg,! Mali, M,ogaco,J Romania,i Swi&e&i”t& Chairman ofthe. Division: to be determined) Pierre Planques President de la Commission de toTonyn@e de. (France) Hnstitut. geographique: national Andre. I.&pierre Chair, Advisory. Committee on Toponymy (CWada) Research, Canadian Permanent~Commtttee on Geographical Names Helen- Kerfoot c/o Geographical Names, Geomatics4&i&da~ (Canada) Natural Resources Canada Henri Dorior- Geography Department (Canada) Kathleen O’BiIen. Secretariat, Canadian Permanent Committee on (Canada) Geographical Names Jocelyne Revie Secretariat, Canadian Permanent Committeeon (Canada) Geographical Names Christian~onnelly Commission de toponymie du Quebec (Canada) ,- Denis Cbouislrrd Permanent Mission to the United Nations 4CSinada)

India Division (Bangladesh, India, Pakistani’) (Absent)

Latin Amerit&Diirision

(Argentina, Bolivia,. Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, I21 S,alvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras+ Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain,9- Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela; Chairman of the IX&ion: to be.determined) Maria-Lenin Leiva Subdirector de1 Instituto Geografico Militar (l%uador) Cristo%al’Morales Bejar Subdirector de Operaci6n INEGI, Direccibn General (Mexico) de Geografia

N&-d& Division (Denmark, Finland; Iceland, Norway, Sweden; Chairman of the Division: Hans Ringstam) Sirkka P’aikkala Special Advisor, Name Planning and Guidance.Research (Finland) Institute for the Languages of Finland Teemu Leskinpo Development Centre, National Land Survey of Finland (Finland) Ruth Ja_CPby Ambassador+Perm-anent Mission to the United Nations (Sweden) Hans Ringstam Principal Administrative Officer, National Land Survey. (Sweden) Leif Nilsson Place Name Consultant, Institute of Place Name (SwedeJr Research

39 B~i)~Helleland Senidr Lecturer-PJace~NameConsultant, University! 6fl (Nomay) OS10

R~~a~~-FIeiti~Division+ @q$mry @mid?p Cyprusp France!: Greece,= Holy See, Italy, Luxe.mb~u,r&! M@ldova;.Monaco,’ Portugal, Romania: Spa’m? Switzerland: Turkey;‘Whairtnan nf: the Division: $.; Arca) Prodromos:Vg$iIeiou. President, Cyprus Permanent CommIttee for the Giq%3s) Standardization of Geographical Names- Menelaas Ghtisfm.!oulou Director, Thesaurus Linguae, Cypriae Graecae:. GYP=) Secretary,Cyprus- Permanent Oomtnitteefor the: Standardizationof Geographical Names Dimitrfs~43J@tziargyrotll Second Secretary, Permanent Mission f@thg UFW GYP@ Nations Anatoi Eremia Toponymy Research Coordinator, Department& (Moldova) Cartography and Toponymy Research, Instituteof Linguistics Juan: Luis Flares Representaute Permanente.Adjunto, Permanent @p&9 MissIon to the United Watioiis JQShG. Lopez& hemps,. Jefe de Stxvicio,4ei Nomencl&X;, Institute (SpainJ Geografico Nacibnal Francisco Rabeqa- Cons.ejerode.Coaperaci6n, PermanenthrljssiSrW~ (Spain) the UnitedNations Silvia&o.ties Consejera:de Embajada,.Permanent MissionWthe (Spain) United Nations Metin ‘Drucel Professor of-Geography, Istanbul University (Turkey) Gabriel- Popescu Secretary of State* kesident ofthe. RomanWi. (Romania). NatiunaHX’fice of43adastran, Geodesy end Cartography Ovfdiu Ierulescaf~ (Romania) Sabato.Raihane Ghief$ Qrtographk Section, It_alianD‘efence (Italy) y General Staff, Ministry of D$ence smatare aTa Director9 School ofGeodesy, Topography’&@! WY) Cartography; Italian Military Geographic Jn3iIQte: Maurizia Painrp~knia Geographer; Consulfant, Ministry of@$eii!X WW

l Canada,see also French-speakingDivIsiotwn@Oit@ gta~~l..~~An?en~,a;Cg~~da~~~v~s~~~@f: Fiance, Seealso French-speakingDjvision; for,Tutkey, seealso.&ia &uth-West DivisM.@@r. than Arabic). GEGN/20 - i’ Emmanouil Gouuatis Minister Plenipotentiary and Expert, Ministry of (Greece) Foreign Affairs Athanasios Palikaris Head of Digital Cartography Division, Hellenic (Greece) Navy, Hydrographic Service Georgios Makridis Director of Geographical Publications Division (Greece) Hellenic Military Geographical Service ioanniS.Pap@oannou Digital Cartography Division, Geographical Names (Greece) Section, Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service Nuno Brito Deputy Permanent Representative to the United (Portugaf) Nations Catulina Cuerreiro Technic-al Counsellor, Permanent Mission to the (Portugal) United Nations Ricardo Moura Adviser, Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Portugal) Andre tapierxe Chair, Advisory Committee on Toponymy (Canada). Research, Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names Helen Kerfoot c/o Geographical Names, Geomatics Canada (%anada) Natural Resources Canada Henri Dorlon Geography Department (Canada) Kathleen O?Brien Secretariat, Canadian Permanent Committee. on CCanada) Geographical Names Jot-elyne Revie Secretariat, Canadian Permanent Committee on (Canada) Geographical Names Christian Bonnelly Commission de toponymie du Quebec (Canada) Denis Chorinard Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Canada)

Uititid Kingdom Division (Guyana; South Africa: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, New Zea!andje ChaWnan~of the Division: to be determined) D. M, Munro Chairman; Permanent Commiftee on Geographical (United Kingdom) Names I? J. Woodman Secretary, Permanent Committee on Geographkal (United Kingdom) Names C. A. Burgess Research Assistant, Permanent Committee on (United Kingdom) Geographical Names

41 R. M_arsden, Military Survey (United Kinggdm)

United Strrtes of America-Canada Division* (Canada?United?3tates; Chairperson ofthe Division: R. L. Payne) Roger L. Payne Executive Secretary, United States Board on Geog-r%j%ic: (United States) Names, Executive Secretary, Domestic Names,4Wiimit@q Chief, Geographic Names, United StatesGepTogical Survey- Rand.$ll’Flynn~ Head Geographer, National Imagery and Mapping Agqicy, (United States) Executive Secretary, Foreign-Names Committee Lou Y&t Deputy Chief, Geogmphic Names, United StatesGaolagic@ (United States) Survey Getd f&tintitig Linguist. Nationai Imagery and Mapping Agency (United States) Richard Wittier Chairman, United St8fe.s.Ba-ard on Geogtapliic NiitAes (United States) Chief, National Mappitig Program, United States Geolo@i2l; Survey Leo Dillon Vice-Cliairman, Unite~dStatesBoard osGeographieN&m~s (Wiited States) State.Department Ronald .Grim Past Chairman, Unite&States Board on Geogl?iphic::N~@~F (UnIted States) Library ofcongress, Geography and Map. division Karen Wo-o-d PubJic Relations Office& United StatesGeological’SPrve~. (United States) AndnSapierre Chair, Advisory Comtiittee on Toponymy: Research (Canada) Canadian Permanent QDmmittee,on Geographical Namw Helen Kerfoot @o Geographical Names, Geomatics Canada (Canada) NaturaI Resources C&nada HZnri Dorio.~ Geography: Department (Canada) Qth1ee.n-WBrien Secretariat, Canadian Permanent Co-mmW2 onGeQgraph&~~: (Canada) Names Iocglyge &vie. Secretarjat, Canadian Permanent;Commtttee.un-G,eogra~i~~~l:~ (Canada) Names Christian Bo:n@e?& Co~mmiss.ionde toponymie.du.Quebec [Canada) Denfs~CJw@nsrd Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Canada):

l For Cmada, see also French-speaking Division. CigtXtW -

G. Ah-Fang Administrative Officer, External Relations.Qffic& Legal Affairs and External Relations Division, International Maritime Organization Secrit.ary-General, International Cartographic Association J&n Severs Liaison Offtcer; Scientific Committee,on Antarctic Research Roger Payiie Pan American Institute for Geography and History. Chris Andrewen United States Board on Geographic Names, Foreign International Hydrographic Organizatioa Liaison, Chief Hydrographer, United States NationaI Imagery and MappN William.Tefft Director, International Map Trade Association (UnitedStates) Juan,wiles National-Geographic Society (United States) Wayne Furr Oklahoma Geological Survey, University of Oklahoma (United’6tates) Charles Heyda UnftedStates Board on Geographic Names sfaff (UnitedStates) (foreign) Jennifer-Runyon United@ates Board on Geographic Names staff (United States) (domestic) Velma Brwtl- United States Board on Geographic Names staff (United Sfates) (foreign) Claire D;eua~ug%an United Qates Board on Geographic Names,staff (Uaited.$tates) (domestic) Ray Milellslcy United States Board on Geographic Names staff (United States) (foreign) Laura-Dowrey Un@zdStates Board on Geographic Names staff (lJ&srstat~s) (#omestic) Ma& Brooks Whited Bates Board on Geographic Names staff (United States) (doriwstic~ ‘_ Eva Edwards United-States Board on Geographic Names staff (United 6tates) (domestic) Bonnie Callahan Am!Yican Indian Affairs, United StatesGeological (United States) Survey Elizabeth Banas United States Forest Service (United states)

_-... _-- . .-_ .___.. Dan Holderfield United States Board on Geographic Names staff (Unite-d States) RMiatdMRisndalJ Ret_ire.d’expert (?Jnit&f?Xatesj. Moon, Myung,ho Chief-in Editorial Writer, L-Iankyoreh Daily News (Republic. of gorea) &;ee;Young-duk Editorial Writer, Chosun Daily News (Republicllvf Korea) Lee; Won-sup Chief-in, Editorial Writer, Hankyoreh Daily News (RepubEc oTKorea) Nam, i&n-soon Editorial Writer, Hankyoreh Daily News (Republic ofXorea) Nam, Chan-soon Editorial Writer, Dong4 DGly NeWS (S?epubI.icof Korea) Jeoirg,, Byung-cheol General Manager of International Team, Korea:Press (l&mblic of Korea) Foundation Rhysc Cray Attache t.Ho!$ t&e) a?iklos Pi’ither Chief, Cartographic Section Library and -Publications (tInited Nations) Division, Department &Public Information Nige!Cs%%tr Chief of Section, Terminology and -Reference Section, (United Nations) Dep.artment of General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services: Chief, Arabic Translation Service

Chief, Docume~ntation,Plann_ing and Meeting, Unit, Department ofGenera Assembly Affairsand Conference Services

Director, Uriited Nations. Statistics Division, DepartmeT? of Economjc and Social Affa.irs United Nations Statistics-Division

” &feni%erdf.theAfrica CZntrallXvision and -the FrenchqwM&ig Division. @MtmWrsfthe Dufch and-German-speaking Division, the AfricaSouth Division, and the United Kti&iom Divisiqn. * M_ember of the Africa,West Division-and the French-speaking Division. , GlEGNlf C

* Member-of the Asia South-East and Pacific South-West Division and the French-speaking Division. * Member of the AsiaSouth&st and.Paci-fic South-West Division and the United Kingdom Division. ’ Member ofthe AsiaSouth-West Division (other than Arabic) and the Eastern Europe, Northern. and Central Asia Division. c Membetof the Rz@t&@ditertanean Division (other than Arabic); the Asia South-Westfother than Arabic) Djvis&ut @rid the Romano-Hellenic Division. L; Member of&&la South-East and Paci-fit South-West Division and the India Division. i Member-of the Asia South-West Division

45 Provisional agenda for the twenty&st&mio~~f the IJ.pited: Nations- Group tif E%perts on Geographical Names 1, 0)pening of tlie session. 2. Adoption bf the agenda. 3; Reports of the working groq%. 4; Organizational matters concerning- the Eighth Uiiited. [email protected]!iDx r2n. the;Standardiiatioxr4f Geographical Nanies. 5. Revjew of the statute of the United Nations Grbup-of@$perts on Geograp$@-al; Names. 6. Election of officers. 7; Planning for implementation of the recomniendations. of tiia Eigg@ Conference, 8; Wr?rking groups for future reqUirementS. 9. Provisional agenda Sor the twenty-second session; (0. Other busfnesg, GEGN/20 .~ . _- -

Annex IV Statute.aad rules of procedure of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

i”: Defiisitiinis ’ 3. All experts participating in sessions of the Group shall serve in their personal capacity as individuals of recognized competence and experience in their respective fields.

For the, purposes of these rules, the following III. Sessions [email protected] the meanings indicated: (a) Yi~oup” or %roup: of: EQerts” means the Rule 3 Un~ited NatiofJ_S;:Group of Experts an Geographical The Group shall normally hold one session every NamesB est.al$l&bed.in pursuance of Economic and two years, at such time as it determines: in years when &!@WZWtnHl ;reso?utions-715.. A. (XXVII) or23 April a United Nations Conference on the Stan-dardization of -I959 and. d 14 QCtIV) of 31 May 1368, and the Geographical Names is held, the Group shall meet, as &$lsioJrr taken- by- the Council at its, 1;854th meeting, required, on dates immediately preceding the opening on&May. 1973; date of the Conference and immediately following the (b) “Member” means an expert participating in closing date of the Conference. a session of the Group, whether or not he or she represents a division; IV. Agenda (c) “Division” means one of the major linguistic/~~~~~a~~caI division_s of the world, as Rule 4 define@& s%Biii-@IV oftbe stafitteof the Group; The provisionaf agenda drawn-up by the Group at (cl) %%retary-General” means the Secretary- its previous session and commrmic-ated to the GeneralYof~the~UnitedNations< Governments invited by the Secretary-General to send experts to participate in the session shall constitme the provisional agenda for the session. Experts II. Membership and komp6siticm participating in the session may propose additional items for inclusion in the provisional agenda. Rule 2 1. The Grsup of Exp$rts- shall. consist. of experts in the field of cartography/linguistics, designated by I? Officers Governmen% .of States Members of the respective divisions. Election and term of&ice 2. The expert who represents a divisi0.n shall be a Rule 5 ftill member of the Group, with voting rights. In addition; States-MemWrs of the disisions may appoint The Group shall elect the following offi‘cers from national’ exp-erts-vvho mq particlpafe, without the right among the experts representing divisions: a Chairman, to vatgiGin the discussions at meetings of: the, Group. a Vice-Chairman and a Rapporteur. Attenldirnce ;8FGroup meeftngs by the latter experts _ -- shalT’6e coor@iited~ with- the expert representing the Rule 6 divl$iotr& question,. who shIfI1 have the=right to vote on The officers shall be e&ted immediately ~eha!F~f.the.~vi~ion. following the closing date of the. respective United Nations Conference on the Standaraization of Cteographical Names. The officers shall serve until VII,Coaduct of business- their successors are e&ted immediately after the next COnferen_ce, Quorum-.

RepSasement ’ . Rule 11 L A majority of the represen%ativgs:& divisions f(ii!f.f~ participating in the s.essionsha?l catt~t~tu@a;~uDtglm. I; If theChairman i&to be absent from a meet&g or part thereof -or.if he or she ceasesto be.able to-perform higor [email protected], the Vice-Chairman or, inhis or. her absence;the Rapporteur shall act as-a..Chairman. Rule 12 2. The, Vice-Chairman or Rapporteur, when acting as Chairman, shall have the same powers and duties as the-Chairman. fi If either the ViceChairman or the &~ppixteur. is Wtb!e to.@XWm the func$ons. of office, the Chairman shall app_QitU.an. #expert. to complete the. unexpired portion o.f%;lthei ta-m of dfice,

VI. Secr&wiat DrrtiesJtrf@be Secretariat The Chairman may*, in #I&: @u~s$=:of the’ Rsk% discussions,,propose to:+ ~~~~~~~~~~~i~~~ list 831%&%r&ary of the. G.roup, appointed by the ofspeakers or the adjo~~nrne~~~~~~-~~~~Q~~~-edebate, Secretary&e~neraIi, &all act in. that, capacity in all He or she may call! a speaker to:; order If: hisor her tneetings:.of- the Group; He or she may designate a remarks-arenot relevant.fo tf&matter nrrcier~dis-cussion. member. of the Secretariat. to‘ take his; place at any The. ChaIrman may alsa propose the suspension or the ngetirig. adjoummentofahe: meeting. R&9 Rule 14 The Secretary shall ,as;far as possible provide and- direct- suchsta~as is required by the @sup; He or. she shall. 6e responsible for making all necessary arrattge:mentsfor meetings: and generally shall perform all otherwork which-the Groupmay require. Points of order

The;Secretary or.his or her representative may at ariy meetings make- either: otal or written statements conCer!&&any questions.under~consideration. GEGNI20 9’

A member may noti in raisr@g c point: of order, speak after which the motion shall be~imniediately- put-- to the on ahe-substance of-the matter under discussion. vote.

Withdrawal of proposals or motions , : &He i-6. Rule 20 ,ae Group. may li$i@t‘the t’hne.allowed to each A proposal or a motion. may be withdrawn by its speaker and rhe nu~mberoftimes a..m.ember may speak sponsor at any time befcre ,voting on it has on any questiot& men the debate is limited and a commenced; provided that it has not been amended. A member exceeds his or her allottedltIme, the Chairman proposal or a motion thus withdrawn may be : shall call-h&nor her to order pvithout Belay reintroduced by any member.

Reconsideration‘ of prop-orals

RltleA3~ Rule21 DBring the !XWrso,oE$&bateb, the. Chairman may When a proposal’ has been adopted or rejected, it anno~uiicethe: list. of speak!r$ and,. Mth the consent of may not be reconsidered%Wh”eSame session.unless the the C;roug; &!ti@ #he fist c&d, The Chairman may, Group, by a two-thirds majority of the representatives however, accord.%h.etight of rep!y to-any. member if, in of divisions present and voting, so decides. Permission his or her opinion: a speech delivered &er he or She to speak on a motion to reconsider shallbe accorded to had ideclared the Iist closed makes this desir&We..When only two speakers opposing the motian, after which it there are. no more s .eakers, the Chairman. shall, with shall be immediately put to th.evote. the wnsent of the P;roup,. d&Sue the debate closed. Such. &wre WI have the sam_e.e~ffcct as closure pum?mt mule El. Invitations to,specialists (teclinicul advisers) ‘ hdjourrlment of debate Rule 22 Rule 18. A person with specialized, knowledge- of particular aspects of the standlitdization of’ During the discussion of any matter, a. member geographical qames may be invited to p&t before the may move the adjournment of the debate on the* item Group of Experts his or her specialized knowledge. under &scussion. Any such:mot&n.&aJl have priority. Such a perssn will be invited only when. ofI%? 1-n@%&ion to the prop.oser &h-e motion, one member approval of the invitationhas been obtained from hisor 1. shalf6eallo.wed toqeak in favour of, and.one member her Government. against, the motion,. after which the motion shall be ;. immediately putto the vote. VIII. Decision-making Closure of debate. Consensus .

Rule 19 Rile 23 A member may at any time move. the closure- of IL On all except>procedural matters, the, Group of the debatezonflieWn under discwlm, Whether or not Experts, its linguistic/geographical divisions and its any dier member. has sign@‘Yied.his or her wish to working groups shall. arrive at ,decisions by consensus.-:, speak. Pefmissfon fs speak on the motion &!!I: be- in the event that a.$onsensusis,not achieved,: the matter accorded to only two speakers opposing the closure, shall be deferred for reworking and .resubmission. 2. @ the absence of a, consensus on procedural Divisiomif pmposals matters, the Chairman may and, at the. request of any member; shall put the proposal to the vote. Rule 28 Partsof a proposal&all be-%&xl oneeparately if Voting rights and maj@y required a member requests that the proposarbe divided. Those parts of the proposals that have been appruved‘ shaji.. then be put to the vote as a whole;. If;all.theto~erative parts of the prop-Bsals-bavg bee@@Jecfercr;& the-- proposal I. Ea~b expert. representing, a divisi.on shall have shall-beconsidered rejectedhs~,@ole. one We,. and dec&sionsof the Group is&!& subject. to rule- 8, be takers by e majority of the- divisional. representatives -present and.voting.. 2. Ua vote-is-equally divided, a second-vote:shalLbe: taken afier an adjournment of the: meeting: fcr IS Rule.29 minutes. If this vote is also equally divided, the When an amendment. is rno~ed’t.o a proposal, the proposal or motion shall be regarded .asrejected. amendment sha1l.b.evoted ion. fir@t: When.twa. or more amendments tire:moved to: a proposa!; the &o-up sball first vote on the amenzlment furthest re-moved. in subsfance from the- orig@@I’pmrp~3~a~ and;.then on the amendment next furthest removed: #her@??-m,.and so- on; unfil all tlie a-mendmentshax@een put to the vote. When; however, the- adoption. of one a.mendment tiWess.~ll~ imp$es the @&$~QIJ of’ another ametidinent, the ilatter amendin3~t. $&I& not: be. pus. to t%ieW&Z& if one or more. afilend@ents~are: adosted; the amended @togosalshall then 6e vefeEQG& fi;Qro--osal is. considered. an. am.endment-to ano$he~piopos@ JiJ if merely adds to, deletes from or revises’ part of that proposal. Roli-call vote (Order OfTOtibg@h p#~~plisal3 Pale 30 I. If: two or m?re propr3sa!$ t?$ate to the- sa:mX questicn, they $half;. unfess~ *li G&up deci&s otherwise, 66 voted on ln the: or@er ifr @i’ich.#hey ttre r submitted. The Group m_ay, afjer each vote on a proposal, decide whether to. votean thgfnext propasal; R@le-27 2. Revised proposals shall- be, voted on in: the order in which- the original3 proposal& c@relsuin%Uted;. anless After the Chairman has announced then the revision substantially departs from the original commencement of voting, no member shall interrupt proposal. In- that Case, the original: @ropo$& sbalf be the-Wing-except on a poinf oforder in connection with- conSidered,~s.Hiitbdr~~n and the.@$sed:~roposal shall. the;agfj@Y :@nducp of the voting; R.xpla.,atitibns:&their be ,treated ma ne.~~proposaJ. votes: by- members; may; howeveQ be$ermitted 1by the Chairman either before ur nft‘er- tl&% voting6 The 3. A motien teqylrlrg@at a~~~_~~~,:b~~taken;0n,~ Chairman. may limit: the time to: be- allcwed for such proposal shall have‘prlori~o~~r~~~~r~~~~~~~ explanations; Elections Interpretation Rule 31 Rule 34 1. All eJections shall be l&Id. by secret ballot unless 1. Speeches made in an~bff~cial langmge shall be the Committee decides 6tlierwise. interpreted into the other official languages of the session. 2; When candidates are to be notninat.ed, e.ach. [email protected] shall be, made by only one me.m.her,.after 2. Any member- may make. a speech-in. a: language wh%h the Group shall immediately proceed to- the other than an offrcial~language of the session if he or. election. she provides for interpretation into one such language. Interpretation into the other official languages of the session hy the inferpreters; of the Secret&r may. be E3allotiag based on the interpretation given in the first such language. Rule 31 1. When- 6ne or. m6re elective-places ai%to be filled at one. time- under the same cc)nditiBns, each member X. Documents may. cast a vdte far- as many candidates 6s there are places to. be. filled: and thme candidafes, ln a.npmber Rule 35 not exceeding the number of spch places, obtaining in 1. The secretariat of the.Group of. Expe-rts,circulates the first bail6t a majority of the votes cast and the copies of working papers submitted by largest-number of votes shall be elected. linguistic/geographical divisions and experts to the 2 If the number of candidates so elected is less than participants of the session. the nirmber of pl&es to be filled, additional- ballots 2. Submissions of a working paper for consideration shall be held to fill the remaining places. From such by- the Group of Experts does not mean that the ballots the candidates- obtaining the least, number of document has received the approval of the, Group of votes in,the previous ballot may be eliminated on the Experts or that the working paper has beenendorsed by proposal of the Chairman. it. ? ‘. 3. ln the case of a tie among, candidates obtaining a 3. Consideration of a working paper by the Gr6up of StrajorTty-&the votes cast, a second *allot shall be held Experts is without political significance. among them. If the votes remain, equally ,divided, the elder or eldest candidate shaI1 be elected. 4. Consideration and discussion of a working paper by the Group of Experts must not be interpreted as support of, or oppositisn to, any political view or issue. IX. Languages 5. Subsequent reference-to the working papers in.the report of the Group 6f Experts on the Session likewise O@iGal and war-king languages shaI1 Ihave no political significance; Rule 33 XI. Records Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish shall be the offitiial languages, and English, French and Spanish shall be the: working liusguages of Records. af meetbgs and of #hew&n; the session. Working papers shall be submitted in one of the working languages. Rule 36 Sound recordings of the plenary meetingsI of the session shall be made and kept by the Secretariat. The Group shall prepare a final repatt in English ‘as the rec‘ord of the sessi6n. This repbrt shall be distributed

51 hy the [email protected] as poss~le: afte&e closing governmental organizatious invitedto the! ~~.~$ion:may: of the 6ession .’ participate, without the r_ight to.. vote;. In, the- deliberations of the Group tin:d ifs.-Working. groups;. on , ‘,, the invitation of the Chairman Oifs$hti convener- of a working group,. on [email protected]&r& fh_e-scope of their

ThE Group. of Experts, may establish: working ,- groups .Qf$peclalists under the chairmanship of one of t&e. satiotta1. experts referred to in rule 2_;to Study particar~~oblet~~twe~~ sesstousof theCroup.

Rdi40 S& f$ 83.,*key.. are atplicablc, the rules. Qf pro~pifiii~. of! tlie Group. of t%perts shall apply to the> grogeed.iigs of; the sessional bodies and. working. Igroups, These bodies may, howwer, dispense with ceftai~~:~guage.~nterpretations.

1. Representatives designated. by the specialized. sgeuciea: and observers designated.. by other intergov3!rnmental organixations and by non-

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AmexV 1 _j.’ P-qMsiona1 ageplda for, theEighth United Nations C$nference on the lStandardization of Geographical Names ’ ;I I. Opening of the Conference. 2. : .Eliaion of the President of the Conference. , ;3; qrganiaatiqnaIIliratters: ‘. i (a) Adoption of the rules of procedure; (b) Adaption ofthe agenda; ._: (c) Election of officers dther than the President; (d) Organization of work; / (e) Credcntials~of~epresentatives to the Conference. , 4, Reports by Governments on the situation in their countries and.on tlie progress ‘ made in the standardization of geographical namessince the Seventli’ Conference. I . 1.. s. Reports by divisions of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names on the situation in their divisions and on..the progress made in the standardization of geographical names since the Seventh Conference. . 6; Meetings and conferences: (a) United Nations-Group-ufExperts on Geographical Names; , (b) @visional and interdivisional meetings and programmes; >/ (c) National -names.meetings, conferences and symposia; 1L (d) International names meetings, conferences andisymposia: I t ~. : j 7. Measures taken and proposed to implement United Nations resolutions on the standardization ofgeographical names.. 8‘ Economic and social.benefits ofthe national and intetnationaf standardization 1 of:geagraphical names. 9. National standartiization: : .. . (a) Field collection of names; .. ,. (b). Office treatment of names; _. (c) Treatmentofnames in,multilingual areas; (d) Adminis-Wative structure ofnational names authorities; , tee) T‘oponymic guidelines for map editors and other editbrs. 10. Exonyms. I I. Reports on grogrammes to assist with pronunciation of names. $2;: Toponymic data files: (a) Data collection %procedures; (b) DataeIemeritsrequired; (cY, Toponyrnic datattrattsfer standards-and,formats; (d) Automated data-processingsystems; (e) Compatibility and structure of ,syst.ems; (f) National gazetteers;, (g) Other publications. 13. Toponymic web sites. 14. Terminology in the standardization of geographical names. 1% Features beyond a single sovereignty: (a) Policies, procedures and cooperative arrangements;. (b) Features common to two or morenations. 16. Writing systems: (a) Romanization; fib) Conversion into non-Roman writing systems; (c) Writing-Gfnames &unwritten languages. 17. Toponymic education and practice and internationalcooperation: (a). Existing;[email protected]; (b) Traming-courses.in-toponymy; (c). Exchange of advicaand information; (d) Exchangeofpersonnel; (e) Technical assistance;. (f) Cooperation with~ational organizations; (g-7 Cooperation with-intem.ational:organfzations; (h) Cooperation-with public information media. 18. Country names. 19. Arrangements for the Ninth-Conference, 20. Adoption of the report ofthe Conference. 21. Adoption @,fresohrtjons-:&afied. during the Conference. 22. Closing of the Conference. GEGNl20 -. Atmex VI R@ksWp~ocedure ci;ft& Utlited Nations Conference on the Standardisation ofGeographical Nanies Chapter I Chapter II Representation-and credentials Agenda

Rtitle 1 Rule 5 Each, Stafe patttcipating in the Conference shall The provisional agenda drawn up by the be represented by an accredited’representative. If more Secretariat and communicated to the Governments than ~tterepresentative is appointed; one of them shdl invited to the Conference by the Secretary-General of be- designated as head of the delegation. Each the United Nations shall form the provisional agenda delegation may am include such alternate for the Conference. Any representative of a State representative, advisers and experts as may be participating in the Conference may propose any item required. for inclusion in the provisional agenda.

Ra1e 2. Chapter III The. credim@Is ofrepresentatives, and the names of alfernate. representatives, advisers an~dexperts shall- Offkers be submltW$o:the Executive Secretary;if poss-i’blenot later than 24$ctnWafterthe opening- of the Conference. Rule 6 The credentials shall be- issued either by the Read of The Conference shall elect a President, two Vice- the State or Government or by the Minister for Forefgn Presidents, a Rapporteur and an Editor-in-Chief from Affairs. among the representatives of the States participating in the-Conference. Rule 3 Role 7 A CWd@ttia?s C6mMttee shall be: apgolnted at the%eginning of4he Conference. It’ shalT.consist of five The ‘President shall preside over the plenary members who.shall be appointed.by the Conference on meetings of the Conference. He shall not vote but may the- proposal of the President. It &all examine the designate another member of his delegation to vote in credentials of representatives andweport Without deIay. his place. Rule 4 Rule 8 Pending a decision of, the Conference regarding If the President is absent from a meeting or any an objection- to the- participation of a delegation, the. part thereof, a Vice-President designated by him shall tattershall be-cntitled to ~participate~provis~onallyin the preside. A Vice-President acting as President shall have Conferedse. the same powers and dutie-s as the President.

Chapter IV Secretariat Rule 9 The Executive Secretary of the Conference appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall act in that capacity in al1 meetings of the

55 Conference. He may appoint a deputy to take his place Rule 15 at any meeting. The- President; in the exercise af; his @ncttions, Rule 1-O remains under the authority of the Conference, The Executive Secretary or his representative Rule 16 may at any meeting make either oral- or written During the discussion. on, any matter, a statements concerning any questions under representative may at any ttme raise I @@it2Gf: order, consideration. and the point of order shall be immediately de&@d by the President in accordance. with: these rules of Rule il procedure. A representative tnay. appeaf against the The Executive Secretary shall provide and direct ruling of the Pre.sident. The. appeal shai1 be such staff as is required by the Conference. He shall be immediately put to the vote. and the $!resident% Wing responsible- for making all necessary arrangements for shall stand unless overruled by a majority “of meetings and generally shall perform all other work representatives present and voting! A representative which the Conference may require. may not, in rais’lng. a point of, order, speak. on- the substanceof the matter under discusston. Chapter V Rule 17 Conduct of business During, the discussion. of an): tnatter, a- representative may move the adjou~rni@i&oFthe debate, Rule 12 on the, item under discussion.. Any such motion. shall, A majority of the representatives participating in have priority. In addition to the,pro~~~e~~~~~~.motior?,. the.Conferenceshall constitute a quoru.m, one: representative shall be- allawe.d,~~o:-sge.ak~ in: favour of, and one representative agahist, the:motian, Rule: 1.3 In addition to exercising the powers conferred Rule 18 upon him elsewhere by these rules, the President shall During the course of the debate* the Pfesident declare thez opening and closing of each plenary may announce the list. of speakers.and%%h the consent meeting- of the Conference, shall direct the discussion of the Conference dec?arethe Iist-Closed; [email protected]. at such meetings, accord the right to speak, put may, however, accord the tight, of rep!y. to any questions tothe vote and annoumce decisions. He shall representatjve if, in his opinllan, a. speech-~delivered rule on points of order and; subject to these Nles of after he has declared the Gist closed; makes.:this procedure, shall have complete control over the desirable. When the- debate on an item- is concluded proceedings. because there- are not other speakers;ShePresident -shall declare the debate,closed. Such closure shall, have. the Rule.14 same effect as closure by the consent of the The President may, in the course of the Conference. discussions, propose to the Conference the closure of Rule 19 the list ofspeakers or the closure of the debate. He may also, propose. the suspension of or the adjournment of A representative may at any time move, the the meeting or- the adjournment of. the. deba&?on the closure of the debate on the- item. @underdiscussion5 item- under discussion. He may also call. a speaker to whether or not any other: representative has:.signified order if hi.sremarks are not relevant to the matter under his wish to speak. Permission to speak on the- closure- discussion. of debate shall be- accorded onry to two.: speakers opposing the closure, after which @e rnofion.. shall be. immediately put to the vote.

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Rule 20 Rule 25 Tire Conference may Iimit the time allowed for For the purpose of these rules, the phrase each speaker. “representatives present and voting” means representatives present and casting an affirmative or Rule 21 negative vote. Representatives who abstain from voting ProposaIs and. amendments shal1 normally be shall be considered as not voting. introduced in writing and handed to the Executive Secretary of@ Conference, who shall circulate~copies Rule 26 to-the deleg;itioas. As:a general rule, no proposal shall The Conference shall normally vote by show of be- discussed.ot put t@ the vote at any meeting of the hands, but any representative may request a roll-call. A Conference an!ess copies- of it- have been circulated to roll-call shall be taken in the English alphabetical order all delegations not later than the day preceding the of the names of the delegations at the Conference, meeting. The President may, however, permit the beginning with the delegation whose name is drawn by discussion and consideration of amendmetits or lot by the President. motions as. to procedure even though those amendments or motions have not been circulated or Rule 27 have only been circulated the same day. After the President has announced the beginning of the vote, no representative shall. interrupt the vote Rule 22 except on a point of order in connection with the actual A proposal or a motian may he withdrawn by its conduct of the voting. Explanations, of their votes by proposer at any time before voting on it has representatives may, however, be permitted by the commenced, provided that the motion has not been President either before or after the voting. The amended. A motion which has thus been withdrawn President may limit the time to be allowed for such may be reintroduced by any representative. explanation.

Rule 23 Rule 28 When a proposal-has been adopted or rejected, it Parts of a proposal shall be voted on separately if may not be. considered unless the Conference, by a a representative requests that the proposal be divided. two-thirds majority of the representatives present and Those parts of the proposal which have been approved votil’lg, so decides. Permission to speak on the motion shall then be put to the vote as a whole; if all the to reconsider shall be accorded only to two speakers operative parts of a proposal have been rejected the opposing the motion, after. which it shall be proposal shall be considered rejected as a whole. immediately put to the-vote. Rule 29 Chapter VI When an amendment is moved to a proposal., the amendment shall be voted on first. When two or more Voting amendments are moved to a proposal, the Conference shall first vote on the amendment furthest removed in Rule 24 substance from tlie original proposal and then on the Each State represented at the. Conference shall amendment next furthest removed therefrom, and so have one vote, and the decisions OF the Conference on, until all the amendments have been put to the vote. shall be made by a. majorl3y sf the representatives of When, however, the adoption of one amendment States particlpa-ing in then Conference present and necessarily implies the rejection of another voting. amendment, the latter amendment shall not be put to the vote. If one or more amendments are adopted, the proposal shall then be voted upon. A motion is considered an amendment to a proposal if it merely adds to, deletes from or revises part of that proposal.

57 RUG?30 Rule 35 If twu or more9 proposals relate to the same Speeches made in an official” l$iTguagp shall be qpcstition, the Conference shall; unless it decides interpreted into the other offlcl? laag!ages sf the otherwise+ vute- on. the proposals in the order in which Conference. they have; been submitted. The Conference may, after each vote on a proposal, decide whether to vote on. the Rule. 36 next proposal. Any representative may make- a. ~ip@3% in 8” language other than- an off%%@ l-aguagj+ of the Ru@ 3 1 Conference. In this- case, he shall: hltfxMF @Wide for All el$ctions shall be decide? by secret ballot inte?preWtion intoi one of the off3zia~ Ian-guagesof the un-less-otherwise decided by the Conference. Conferencei

Rule 32 CbapterWII. 1. if, when one person or one dHegation is to be Records etected, a~ candidate. qbtains the required majority in the first ballot, a. second ballot shall be taken, which sh?ll”b.e restricted t@ the two candidates obtaining the Rule 37 largest’ number ofi votes. If, in the: second ballot, the 1. There shall be neither verbati-m- nor s?rmmary votes are equally divided, the President shall decide records of meetings. between the candidates by drawing lots. 2. Sound recording of meeting?- of: the Conference. 2, In the. case of a tie in the first ballot among the and of any committees shall be: m,a’r&:and. gept in candidates. obtaining the second largest number of accordance with4he pracxice of the CrilrVxl M@ioxs, votes, a special ballot shall be held for the purpose of . reducing tkie number of candidates to two. In the case of a tie am.ong three or more candidates obtaining the Chapter IX largest number of votes, a second ballot shall be held; Publicity and meetings:. if a tie. msult$ among more than two candidates, the number. shalI%e reduced to-Xiv0 by lot. Rille38 T&z pWa.ry meetings of the- GWerence and the Rnle433. meetings af its committees., shall. 6_elIbeld: in pablic If c rote: is e.qu.ally divided upon matters other unless the body. concerned deddes-- that ex$@ti!W than- electjptis, a second vote shall be. taken- after an circumstances require that a p;artic;ular:tneeEng, be held~ adjoum~mentof the, meeting for 15 minutes, If this vote in private. also reslrlts” in equality, the proposal shall be regarded asae:J’ected_:. chapter X Committees Chxqter VII Official and work&g languqges Rule.39 The. Confelrence may. es_$blQl$ su_cb-cOmmittees Riile 34 as may b-e. neJ;ess.ary for the perf_sr.rnance‘ of its. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and functions, Items. relating to. the:. ssme GB@Wy of- Spg@Ii shaII be the officj.al ianguages and English, subjects shall be referred to-the com.mit&e dealing.wM FWich and !?@nish-shall be thc.~working languages of that category of subjects. CommiRees shall not the Conference. introduce, any item. on their own inlfiative. GEGNi20

Rule 40 observers at public meetings of the Conference and its committees. Each committee shall eiect its own Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Rapporteur. 2. Upon the invitation of the presiding officer of the Conference body concerned, and subject to the Rule 41 approval of that body, such observers may make oral statements on questions in which they have special So far as they are applicable, the rules of competence. procedure of the Conference shall apply to the proceedings of the committees. A committee may Rule 47 dispense with certain language interpretations. Written statements submitted by the designated representatives referred to in rules 42 to 46 shall be Chapter XI distributed by the Secretariat to all delegations in the Other participants and observers quantities and in the languages in which the statements are made available to the Secretariat for distribution, Rule 42 provided that a statement submitted on behalf of a ,non- governmental organization is on a subject in which it Representatives designated by organizations that has a special competence and is related to the work of have received a standing invitation from the General the conference. Assembly to participate in the sessions and work of all international conferences convened under its auspices have the- tight to participate as observers, without the Chapter XII right to vote, in the deliberations of the conference and Amendments its committees. Rule 48 Rule 43 These rules of procedure may be amended by a Representatives designated by national liberation decision of the Conference. movements invited to the Conference may participate as observers, without the right to vote, in the deliberations of the Conference and its committees on Notes any mat&r ofpart~ccniar concern to those movements. ’ For the purpose of these rules, the term “specialized Rule 44 agencies” includes the International Atomic Energy Agency and the General Agreement on Tari.riffs and Representatives designated by the specialized Trade. agencies“ may participate, without the right to vote, in the defiberations of the Conference and its committees on questions within the scope of their activities.

Rule 45 Representatives designated bY other intergovernmental organizations invited to the Conference may participate as observers, without the right to.vote, in the deiiberatiuns of the Conference and its committees on questions within the- scope of their activities.

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