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    It is ironic and absurd that the EU has more official languages than the UN has (true, all internal documents and discussions take place only in English, French and German, but all external documents are written in thirty or so languages for the benefit of EU citizens). By contrast, the UN has just six official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. At a minimum, IMO the UN should add Japanese, Hindi, Swahili, German and Portuguese for official purposes. Nevertheless, I am interested in what others think.

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    Portuguese, Italian, German, Polish and Japanese should be added.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    It is ironic and absurd that the EU has more official languages than the UN has (true, all internal documents and discussions take place only in English, French and German, but all external documents are written in thirty or so languages for the benefit of EU citizens). By contrast, the UN has just six official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. At a minimum, IMO the UN should add Japanese, Hindi, Swahili, German and Portuguese for official purposes. Nevertheless, I am interested in what others think.
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    I think Western countries (including our Oriental allies Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Singapore - and, hopefully, one day a free Hong Kong and Macau) should pack up and leave the UN. Form up our own organisation.



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    UN is a joke. It has no power in anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Batavia View Post
    How many people speak Swahili anyway?
    98,327,740 (as L1: 16,027,740; as L2: 82,300,000).

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    Portuguese is almost the same language than Spanish.

    Hindi and Swahili are spoken in countries where english is also an official and more widespread lenguage.

    Japanese and German are not widespread lenguages, are basically one-single country (Chinese too, but it's spoken by 1000 million people)

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    Portuguese is the most obvious one missing if we go by the total number of people who speak it (whether or not the language is their mother tongue).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Harkonnen View Post
    UN is a joke. It has no power in anything.
    power to do what? UN is a political instrument and it does work well for it's purpose

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