the decisions taken at its Fourteenth and Fifteenth Sessions regarding the use of Arabic as a working language for limited purposes,
Considering
that the question whether the Basic Texts required amendment to reflect these decisions had been considered by the
Committee on Constitutional and Legal Matters
and the
Council
,
Noting
that at its Fifteenth Session it had amended
Article XXII of the Constitution so as to provide that the Arabic text be equally authoritative as the English, French and Spanish texts,
Decides
to endorse the recommendations of the Fifty-Sixth Session of the Council on this question, and to amend
Rule XXXVIII of the General Rules of the Organization by the addition of the words underlined, to read as follows:"
Arabic
, Chinese, English, French and Spanish shall be the official languages of the Organization. English, French and Spanish shall be the working languages
and Arabic shall be a working language for limited purposes
