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Meeting of Working Group members with Armenian experts (virtual, 10 June 2021)
- Minutes of the meeting

2nd Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (New York / virtual, 3–7 May 2021)
- GEGN.2/2021/93/CRP.93: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems: Current status of UN Romanization systems for geographical names
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- GEGN.2/2021/32/CRP.32: Verification of Geographical Names in Indonesia (submitted by Indonesia)
- GEGN.2/2021/CRP.114: A Brief Introduction to Guidelines on Geographical Names Transformation from Japanese to Chinese (submitted by China)
- GEGN.2/2021/CRP.120: Transcriptor: Solving your transliteration problems? (submitted by Netherlands)

Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 1 May 2019)
- Report of the meeting

1st Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (New York, 29 April – 3 May 2019)
- GEGN.2/2019/11/CRP.11: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems: current status of UN Romanization systems for geographical names
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- GEGN.2/2019/24/CRP.24: Experiment in romanization of the web map using geographical name information in vector tile data (submitted by Japan)
- GEGN.2/2019/59: Sami writing systems in Sweden (submitted by Sweden)
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.101: Report of Sri Lanka (submitted by Sri Lanka)

Meeting of the Working Group (Paris, 20 March 2018)
- Report of the meeting

11th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 8–17 August 2017)
- E/CONF.105/54/CRP.54: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems: Current status of UN Romanization systems for geographical names
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.105/63/CRP.63: Rules of romanization of geographical names applied in Poland (submitted by Poland)
- E/CONF.105/71/CRP.71: New Developments in Formulating the Transformation Guidelines of Geographical Names from Foreign Languages into Chinese (submitted by China)
- E/CONF.105/123/CRP.123: Nécessité de création d’un groupe ou sous-groupe de travail sur les systèmes de transcription des langues non-écrites (submitted by Task Team for Africa)
- E/CONF.105/125/CRP.125: Problématique du système de romanisation arabe (submitted by Task Team for Africa)
- E/CONF.105/137/CRP.137: Romanization System from Arabic letters to Latinized letters 2007 + Annex 1 and Annex 2 (submitted by the Arabic Division)

Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 11 August 2017)
- Report of the meeting

30th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 7 and 18 August 2017)
- W.P.2: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P.7: ICANN Report

Meeting of the Working Group (Prague, 7 April 2017)
- Report of the meeting
- Annex: Recommendations on the proposed romanization system for Arabic (2007)
- Addendum: Minutes of the technical meeting on the romanization of Arabic (Ar Riyāḏ/Riyadh, 10 May 2017)

29th Session of UNGEGN (Bangkok, 25–29 April 2016)
- W.P. 50/11: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 22/11: Investigation of rules for translating Japanese geographical names into English (submitted by Japan)
- W.P. 24/4: Report of the Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division

Meeting of the Working Group (Bangkok, 29 April 2016)
- Report of the meeting

28th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 28 April – 2 May 2014)
- W.P. 8/11: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 4/11: Romanization of Iranian geographical names (Implementation in the national and international level) (submitted by Iran)
- W.P. 37/4: Report of Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division (submitted by Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division Chair, Russian Federation)

Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 1 May 2014)
- Report of the meeting

10th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 31 July – 9 August 2012)
- E/CONF.101/48: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems: Current status of UN romanization systems for geographical names
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.101/12: Romanization System in Bulgaria (submitted by Bulgaria)
- E/CONF.101/40/Rev.1: Statement of the Austrian Board on Geographical Names (AKO) as regards Romanization of the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet (submitted by Austria)
- E/CONF.101/84: Romanization System in Ukraine (submitted by Ukraine)
- E/CONF.101/96: The Issue of the Romanisation System for the Arab Countries: Between Legitimacy and Practices. Which Solutions? (submitted by the Arabic Division)
- E/CONF.101/104: ICANN Report (submitted by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN))
- E/CONF.101/118/Rev.1: New Persian Romanization System (submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran)
- E/CONF.101/141: Reversibility of Romanization Systems (submitted by Estonia)
- E/CONF.101/CRP2: The Roman alphabet transliteration of Belarusian geographical names (submitted by Belarus)
- E/CONF.101/CRP15: The Rules of Latin Alphabetic Transcription of Korean Language (submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

Meeting of the Working Group (New York, 3 August 2012)
- Report of the meeting

27th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 30 July and 10 August 2012)
- W.P. 8: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 9: Liaison with ICANN

Meeting of the Working Group (Gdańsk, 18 May 2012)
- Agenda and presented documents
- Report of the meeting

26th Session of UNGEGN (Vienna, 2–6 May 2011)
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see page 13)
- W.P. 2: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 21: Romanization System in Ukraine (submitted by Ukraine)
- W.P. 36: Brief Introduction of Foreign Geographical Names Transformed into Chinese (submitted by China)
- W.P. 94: Georgian Consonants and Their Romanization (submitted by Georgia)

Meeting of the Working Group (Vienna, 5 May 2011)
- Report of the meeting

25th Session of UNGEGN (Nairobi, 5–12 May 2009)
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see page 17)
- W.P. 22: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W. P. 55: Toponymic Database Romanization Application (software) (submitted by Tunisia)
- CRP. 1: The Arabic Division of Experts on Geographical Names (ADEGN) (submitted by the Arabic Division /Lebanon/)
- CRP. 3: Systèmes français de romanisation (submitted by France)

Meeting of the Working Group (Nairobi, 26 May 2009)
- Report of the meeting

9th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 21–30 August 2007)
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 25–27 /PDF 31–33/)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.3: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems: Activities from August 2002 to June 2007
- E/CONF.98/2: Implementation of UN Romanization Systems by Donor Nations (link to the UNGEGN website)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.98/4: Changes in the Official Romanization System for Hebrew (see also proposal for a resolution) (submitted by Israel)
- E/CONF.98/5: Transliteration from Hebrew into Arabic (submitted by Israel)
- E/CONF.98/47: Toponymic guidelines for map editors and other editors, Japan (third edition, 2007) (submitted by Japan)
- E/CONF.98/115: Romanisation (submitted by France)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.21: National System of Geographic Names Transmission into Roman Alphabet in Belarus (submitted by Belarus)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.29/EN: Standard Arabic System for Transliteration of Geographical Names (submitted by the Third Arab conference on Geographical Names)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.33: Working Paper on Romanization Font (submitted by Lebanon)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.39/EN: Arabic Phonetic Alphabet (submitted by Lebanon)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.43: Romanization of Korean Geographical Names: Current Practices and the Way Forward (submitted by the Republic of Korea)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.71: Writing systems: Romanization (submitted by Bulgaria)
- E/CONF.98/CRP.90: Report on the Work for Unifying the "Romanization of Geographical Names of Korea" (submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

24th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 20 and 31 August 2007)
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see page 6)
- W.P. 8: Report by the Convenor of the Working Group on Romanization Systems (link to the UNGEGN website)

Meeting of the Working Group (Tallinn, 9–10 October 2006)
- Agenda and presented documents
- Report of the meeting

23rd Session of UNGEGN (Vienna, 28 March – 4 April 2006):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see page 18)
- W.P. 98: Report by the convenor of the working group on romanization systems
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 22: Toponymy of Mongolian geographical names (submitted by Mongolia)
- W.P. 57: Toponymic Guidelines for Map Editors and other Editors (submitted by Japan)
- W.P. 62: Transcription Procedure for Iranian Toponymic Items (submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran)
- W.P. 95: Romanization of Korean (submitted by the Republic of Korea)
- CRP.6: Application of the transliteration system of the Cyrillic Alphabet with the Roman characters (GOST 83) in the Russian Federation (submitted by the Russian Federation)

Meeting of the Working Group (Vienna, 30 March 2006)
- Report of the meeting

22nd Session of UNGEGN (New York, 20–29 April 2004):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see pages 14 and 20–21)
- W.P. 46: Report by the convenor of the working group on romanization systems
- W.P. 48: Updates to the report on the current status of United Nations romanization systems for geographical names
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 23: The stability and appropriateness of the United Nations system for the romanization of Arabic geographical names (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- W.P. 54: Transcription procedure for Iranian geographical names (submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran)
- W.P. 73: Standard Lebanese geographic names romanization rules (submitted by Lebanon)

8th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Berlin, 27 August – 5 September 2002):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 30–31 /PDF 36–37/)
- E/CONF.94/CRP.80: Report of the working group on romanization systems: activities from January 1998 to May 2002
- E/CONF.94/CRP.81: Report on the current status of the United Nations romanization systems for geographical names (link to the UNGEGN website, Version 2.1; see above)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.94/INF.7: Rapport sur la toponymie, la normalisation et la romanisation des noms géographiques au Liban (submitted by Lebanon)
- E/CONF.94/INF.30/Corr.1: Geographical Names of the Kingdom of Cambodia (submitted by Cambodia)
- E/CONF.94/INF.41: Principles of romanization for Thai script by transcription method (submitted by Thailand)
- E/CONF.94/INF.60: Russian experience in employing romanization system "Gost 83" for Cyrillic alphabet (submitted by the Russian Federation)
- E/CONF.94/INF.68: New Romanization system of Korean (submitted by the Republic of Korea)
- E/CONF.94/INF.72: Guidelines for the Romanization of Korean (submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
- E/CONF.94/INF.75 and Add.1: Government of the Union of Myanmar Notification 5/89 (submitted by Myanmar)
- E/CONF.94/INF.77: Geographic names transliteration in Global Data Management system (GDMS) (submitted by Saudi Arabia)
- E/CONF.94/INF.95: Romanization procedures: is there a systematic bias against representing musical tone? (submitted by Sudan)
- E/CONF.94/CRP.39: Dictionary of Geographical Names of the Baltic States and of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (submitted by Germany)

21st Session of UNGEGN (Berlin, 26 August and 6 September 2002):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see pages 4–5 and 10)
- W.P. 3: Report by the convenor of the working group on romanization systems

Meeting of the Working Group (London, 16–17 May 2001):
- Report of the meeting

20th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 17–28 January 2000):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see pages 13 and 19–20)
- W.P. 15: Report by the convenor of the working group on romanization systems
- W.P. 34: United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names. Preliminary Report on their Current Status
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 41: Toponymic Guidelines for man and other editors - Revised edition 1998 (submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran)
- W.P. 48: Recent Changes in Geographical Names of Korean Cities and other Developments (submitted by the Republic of Korea)
- W.P. 54: Standardization in Multilingual Areas - A New Transliteration System from Hebrew into Arabic (submitted by Israel)

7th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 13–22 January 1998; below all links will direct to the UNGEGN website):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 30–32 /PDF 35–37/)
- E/CONF.91/L.22: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems: Activities from 24 August 1992 – 12 January 1998 (prepared by the convenor, G. Quinting, United States)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.91/L.11: Considerations for and against the revision of a romanization system: the case of Hebrew (submitted by Israel)
- E/CONF.91/L.12: Plene vs. vocalized orthography of names in Hebrew GIS-derived digital topographic maps (submitted by Israel)
- E/CONF.91/CRP.5: A phonetic sample survey towards improvement of a romanization system (submitted by Israel)
- E/CONF.91/CRP.30: Updated rules for the application of the romanization system for the Cyrillic alphabet in the Russian Federation (submitted by the Russian Federation)
- E/CONF.91/CRP.39: International romanization standards (submitted by ISO)

19th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 12 and 23 January 1998):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see page 4)
- W.P. 1: Report by the Convenor of the Working Group on Romanization Systems (submitted by the convenor, G. Quinting, United States)

18th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 12–23 August 1996):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see pages 17 and 30–33)
- W.P. 21: Report by the Convenor of the Working Group on Romanization Systems (submitted by the convenor, G. Quinting, United States)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 5: Theoretical and practical considerations for changes in the romanization of Hebrew (submitted by the Eastern Mediterranean Division (other than Arabic))
- W.P. 78: Romanization of Ukrainian Geographical Names (submitted by Ukraine)
- W.P. 85: Geographical Names Romanization in Pakistan (submitted by Pakistan, see also Add. 1)
- W.P. 86: Activities in Jordan on the standardization of Geographical Names (submitted by Jordan)

17th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 13–24 June 1994):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see pages 16 and 24–28)
- W.P. 20: Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems (submitted by the convenor, G. Quinting, United States)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 9: Information presented by the East Central and Southeast Europe Division (submitted by the East Central and Southeast European Division)
- W.P. 18: Romanization systems and Roman-script spelling conventions - A new publication of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (submitted by the United States, see also Corr. 1)
- W.P. 57: Guidelines for the Romanization of Korean (submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
- W.P. 61: Présentation de la variante B du système de translittération de l’arabe “Beyrouth amendé” (submitted by France)
- W.P. 73: Provisional rules of reproducing letters of the Ukrainian alphabet with Latin (English) characters (submitted by Ukraine)

6th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York, 25 August – 3 September 1992):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 22–23, /PDF 27–28/)
- E/CONF.85/WP11: Report by the Convenor of the Working Group on Romanization Systems (submitted by the convenor, G. Quinting, United States)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.85/L.80: The romanized transliteration of Thai (submitted by Thailand)
- E/CONF.85/L.81: Modification of romanized transcription of Thai (submitted by Thailand)
- E/CONF.85/WP46: Guideline to the Romanization of Korean (submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

16th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 24 August and 4 September 1992):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS /convenor: G. Quinting, United States/ see page 6)

15th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 11–19 November 1991):
- Report of the Session (for WGRS see pages 16–18)
- W.P. 63: Report by the Co-Convenor (submitted by the co-convenor, G. Quinting, United States)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 27: Report of Working Group on Latinization Systems (submitted by the Central, East and Southeast Europe Division, see also the English-Russian version)
- W.P. 41: Transliteration of Thai (submitted by Thailand)

14th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 7–26 May 1989):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System see pages 17–19)
- W.P. 35: Working Group on a single Romanization system for each non-Roman writing system (submitted by the convenor, G. Quinting, United States)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 2: Principles for romanization of Korean (submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
- W.P. 40: The grounds for adopting transliteration in writing geographical names (submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

5th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Montréal, 18–30 August 1987):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 24–32 /PDF 30–38/)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.79/L.10: Scientific principles applied in the conversion on scripts (submitted by the Dutch- and German-Speaking Division; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/L.23: Romanization systems and the donor principle (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/8: The state of Romanization in Japan (submitted by Japan)
- E/CONF.79/INF/17: Review of progress in Romanization (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.79/INF/32: Standardization of geographical names in Ethiopia (submitted by Ethiopia; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/38: Conversion of the Greek alphabet into Latin characters (submitted by Greece and Cyprus; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/39: The Romanized transliteration of Thai (submitted by Thailand; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/56: A computerized toponymic transliteration/transcription/translation system (submitted by Israel; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/61: Information on the Romanization system for Russian Cyrillic geographical names (submitted by USSR; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/65: Standardization of geographical names in India - adoption of modified table of transliteration from Devanagari to Roman (submitted by the WG ad hoc chairman on behalf of India)
- E/CONF.79/INF/68: Report on the state of standardization of geographical names and romanization in Korea (submitted by the Republic of Korea; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.79/INF/70: Romanization system of Pakistan (submitted by Pakistan; digital copy not yet available)

13th Session of UNGEGN (Montréal, 17 and 31 August 1987):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for Each Non-Roman Writing System /co-convenors: G. Quinting, United States, and J. Breu, Austria/ see page 7)

12th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 29 September – 7 October 1986):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for Each Non-Roman Writing System /ad hoc convenor: G. Quinting, United States/ see page 8–10)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 4: On conversion of names into roman alphabet from other writing systems (submitted by Sweden)
- W.P. 48: Report on activities in Thailand (submitted by Thailand)

11th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 15–23 October 1984):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for Each Non-Roman Writing System /ad hoc convenor: J. Breu, Austria/ see page 7–9)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 40: Introduction of the state standard "Romanization System for the Cyrillic Alphabet" in the USSR (submitted by USSR)
- W.P. 47: Guidelines for the romanization or Korean (submitted by the Republic of Korea)

4th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Geneva, 24 August – 14 September 1982):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 18–22 /PDF 23–27/)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.74/L.3: The national languages of the countries of the world, their scripts, and the United Nations recommendations on their Romanization (submitted by Austria)
- E/CONF.74/L.54: The status of the English language (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.74/L.55: Romanization in the context of the United Nations (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.74/L.56: Report by the United Kingdom expert to the Working Group on a Single Romanization System on each non-Roman Writing System (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.74/L.59: The application of Pinyin spellings for geographical names (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.74/L.64: Romanization in Japan (submitted by Japan)
- E/CONF.74/L.85: Conversion of the Greek alphabet into Latin characters (submitted by Greece; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.74/L.89: Conversion of geographical names from one writing system to another (submitted by USSR; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.74/L.112: Practical aspects of geographic names and communications (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.74/L.116: Situation in Romanization (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)

10th Session of UNGEGN (Geneva, 23 August and 15 September 1982):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System /convenor: E. Földi, Hungary/ see page 6)

9th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 17–27 February 1981):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for each Non-Roman Writing System see pages 10–12)
- W.P. 34: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization System for each Non-Roman Writing System (submitted by the convenor, E. Földi, Hungary)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- INF.1: The romanization of Chinese geographical names (submitted by China)
- W.P. 27: Transcription system of the Greek alphabet (submitted by Greece; digital copy not yet available)
- W.P. 39: Romanization Report (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- W.P. 59: Introduction of a new system for the Roman transliteration of Geographical Names of the USSR in cartographical publications for international use (submitted by USSR, there is also Corr. 1 /digital copy not yet available/)

8th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 26 February – 9 March 1979):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a single romanization system for each non-Roman writing system see pages 7–8)
- W.P. 33: State of work in the Working Group on a single romanization system for each non-roman writing system (submitted by the convenor, E. Földi, Hungary)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 4: Report of an ISO meeting on romanization, held in Berlin in November 1978 (submitted by Austria)
- W.P. 10: Technical explanations on spelling in the "Atlas of the People's Republic of China" in the Chinese phonetic alphabet (submitted by China)
- W.P. 13: United Kingdom proposal for action at the forthcoming meeting of UNGEGN (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- W.P. 17: The spelling of geographical names of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of Bulgaria in the German Democratic Republic (submitted by the German Democratic Republic)
- W.P. 32: Sobre la posible romanización única de las diversas escrituras mundiales (submitted by Spain)
- W.P. 38: ISO Annual sub-report for 1978, conversion of scripts (submitted by Austria)
- W.P. 55: Transliteration of the Arabic Alphabet (submitted by Morocco; digital copy not yet available)
- W.P. 56: Notes on the Geographical Conference of Islamic States (submitted by Morocco; digital copy not yet available)

3rd United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Athens, 17 August – 7 September 1977):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 18–20 /PDF 23–25/)
- E/CONF.69/L.77: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization System for each non-Roman Writing System, 1 June 1972 to 16 August 1977
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.69/L.11: A new Inuit orthography for geographical names (submitted by Canada)
- E/CONF.69/L.14: The treatment of toponyms in Manitoba from languages without an alphabet (submitted by Canada)
- E/CONF.69/L.21: The situation in the project to elaborate a single romanization system for the Cyrillic alphabet for international use (submitted by USSR)
- E/CONF.69/L.23: Romanization (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.69/L.61: Romanization in Japan (submitted by Japan)
- E/CONF.69/L.72: The national languages of the countries of the world, their scripts and the United Nations recommendations for their Romanization (submitted by Austria)
- E/CONF.69/L.74: Writing systems - conversion of names from one writing system into another (submitted by Austria)
- E/CONF.69/L.86: Report by Governments on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names in Iran (submitted by Iran)
- E/CONF.69/L.87: National standardization. The Cyrillic and the Roman writing systems in Yugoslavia: critical remarks on the treatment of some Yugoslav names in international usage (submitted by Yugoslavia)
- E/CONF.69/L.95: Problems of standardization in a multilingual nation: Sudan (submitted by Sudan)
- E/CONF.69/L.106: Scheme for a Chinese phonetic alphabet (submitted by China)
- E/CONF.69/L.116: Transliteration of languages of the Indian group into Roman and Devanagari (submitted by India)
- E/CONF.69/L.118: Rules for spelling Chinese place names with the Chinese phonetic alphabet (submitted by China)
- E/CONF.69/L.119: Rules for the transliteration of minority nationality place names with the Chinese phonetic alphabet (submitted by China)
- E/CONF.69/L.123: Point de vue du Maroc sur la romanisation (submitted by Morocco)
- E/CONF.69/L.129: Statement by the United States of America and the United Kingdom concerning the romanization of Chinese (submitted by the United States and the United Kingdom)
- E/CONF.69/L.143: Single romanization system for each non-Roman writing system. Draft resolution submitted by India (submitted by India)

7th Session of UNGEGN (Athens, 16 August and 8 September 1977):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for Each Non-Roman Writing System /chairman: E. Földi, Hungary/ see page 4)

6th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 5–26 March 1975):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for Each Non-Roman Writing System /convenor: J. Breu, Austria/ see pages 18–23)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 12: On the romaniztion system for place-names of the U.S.S.R. (submitted by USSR)
- W.P. 24: Romanization of Korean geographical names in the People's Democratic Republic pf Korea /PDRK/ (submitted by Hungary)
- W.P. 25: Comparative table of Korean Romanization Systems (submitted by Hungary)
- W.P. 26: Romanization of Chinese geographical names (submitted by Hungary)
- W.P. 28: Romanization of Bulgarian, Russian and Mongolian geographical names (submitted by Hungary)
- W.P. 32: Transliteration of geographical names (submitted by Iran)
- W.P. 39: Report for the sixth session of the United Nations group of experts on geographical names (submitted by Greece)
- W.P. 43: Speech by Yang Leiguang, head of the group of geographical names experts, state bureau of surveying and cartography of the People's Republic of China (submitted by China)
- W.P. 51 Tableau des aménagements acceptables pour la translittération de l'arabe (submitted by France and Lebanon)

5th Session of UNGEGN (New York, 5–16 March 1973):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System for each non-Roman Writing System see pages 26–31)
- W.P. 37: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization System for each non-Roman Writing System (submitted by the convenor, J. Breu, Austria, see also Rev. 1)
- W.P. 26: Working Group on a Single Romanization System for each non-Roman Writing System – minutes of first meeting 6 March 1973
- W.P. 28: Working Group on a Single Romanization System for each non-Roman Writing System – minutes of second meeting 8 March 1973 (digital copy not yet available)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 10: On the Usage of Diacritical Marks in Geographical Names Romanization (submitted by USSR)
- W.P. 12: Acceptability of Romanizations - comment on Paper L 106 Romanization of Geographic Names for International Use (submitted by the United States)
- W.P. 13: Greek draft – Romanization System of the Greek Alphabet (submitted by Greece with Cyprus, see also Rev. 1)
- W.P. 14: The minutes of Iran-Afghanistan's regional meetings on transliteration of geographical names (submitted by Iran)
- W.P. 15: Arabic Glossary – Written in the Unified Arabic System (submitted by Lebanon)
- W.P. 25: Comparative Table [on Arabic] (submitted by the United States)

2nd United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (London, 10–31 May 1972):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 5–7 /PDF 10–12/)
- E/CONF.61/L.5: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization, 19 February 1970 to 6 December 1971 (part I) (digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5 Add.1: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization, 7 December 1971 to 15 April 1972 (part II) (digital copy not yet available)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.2: Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari of the Indian group (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.3: Writing systems: transfer of names from one writing system into another; comparative tables (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.4: Transliteration of Khmer writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.5: Transliteration of Thai writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.6: Transliteration of Maldivian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.7: Transliteration of the Amharic alphabet (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.8: Transliteration of the Arabic alphabet (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/Add.9: Translittération du macédonien en caractères latins (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.10: Transliteration of Bulgarian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.11: Transliteration of Somali writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.12: Transliteration of Persian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.13: Translittération du mongol en caractères latins (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.14: Transliteration of modern Greek writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.15: Transliteration of Serbo-Croatian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.16: Transliteration of Laotian writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.17: Transliteration of Japanese writing (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.5/ Add.18: Transliteration of Khmer writing (part II) (submitted by the WG; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.15: The standardization of geographical names in Israel (submitted by Israel)
- E/CONF.61/L.21 and Corr.1: Writing systems (submitted by Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands)
- E/CONF.61/L.28: Romanization of Chinese (submitted by the East, Central and South-East Europe Division and the USSR Division, see also Add.1)
- E/CONF.61/L.34: Canadian policy with regard to the standardization of recently collected Eskimo toponyms according to the Lefebvre-Gagné orthography (submitted by Canada)
- E/CONF.61/L.43: Romanization of Cyrillic script (submitted by Austria)
- E/CONF.61/L.75: On Romanization systems for Russian place names; comparative study of the systems of Romanization of the Russian alphabet (submitted by USSR; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.77: Report on the standardization of geographical names: Egypt (submitted by Egypt; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.79: A system of transliteration and transcription of Bulgarian geographical names into Latin letters (submitted by Bulgaria; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.82: Transcription of the Cyrillic alphabet into Roman characters (submitted by Czechoslovakia; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.90: The Pinyin system: a system of the transcription of Chinese characters into Roman letters (submitted by Czechoslovakia; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.92: Romanization guide (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.97: Principles of Romanization (submitted by Hungary; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.106: Romanization of geographical names for international use (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF.61/L.108: Transcription of the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet on the 1 : 2,500,000 World Map (submitted by Hungary; digital copy not yet available)

4th Session of UNGEGN (London, 9 May and 1 June 1972):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System see page 4)

3rd Session of UNGEGN (New York, 2–12 February 1971):
- Report of the Session (for Working Group on a Single Romanization System see pages 20–24)
- INF.25: Report of the Working Group on a Single Romanization System (submitted by chairman pro tempore, J. Breu, Austria)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- INF.8: Committee on Romanization (submitted by the United Kingdom)
- INF.12: Transliteration of Khmer writing (submitted by the United States)
- INF.17: Short statement on activities in the Nordic Linguistic Committees on Romanization of geographical names in non-Romanic script (submitted by Norway)
- INF.19: Working papers submitted by the Dutch-German speaking Division (submitted by the Dutch-German-speaking Division)
- INF.24: Statement on Romanization (submitted by USSR)
- INF.27: Information obtained by the (UN) Cartography Section concerning the transliteration of Amharic (submitted by Erik O. Dahle)
- INF.32: Geographic name standardization activity report 1970-1971 - Lebanon (en français) (submitted by Lebanon)

2nd Session of UNGEGN (New York, 10–20 March 1970):
- Report of the Session (for newly created working group on a single romanization system /chairman: G. Gómez de Silva, Mexico/ see pages 12–14)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- W.P. 4: Statement on Romanization (submitted by ?; digital copy not yet available)
- W.P. 5: Principles of Romanization (submitted by Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Luxemburg and Switzerland)
- W.P. 8: Report on activities (submitted by India)
- W.P. 13: Proposal (re Romanization) (submitted by Norway)
- W.P. 15: Short statement on Romanization of Russian (and Slavonic) names in Norden (submitted by Norway)
- W.P. 17: Report on Romanization (submitted by the Republic of China; digital copy not yet available)
- W.P. 21: Short report on Romanization of Arabic geographical names (en français) (submitted by Lebanon)
- W.P. 24: Romanization of Indian geographical names (submitted by India)
- W.P. 26: Romanization of geographical names of non-Roman writing languages (submitted by ?; digital copy not yet available)
- INF.5: Transcription in cartography (submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany)

United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (Geneva, 4–22 September 1967):
- Report of the Conference (for romanization issues see pages 3–6 /PDF 8–11/)
  Other documents with information on romanization from the UNGEGN website:
- E/CONF/.53/L.10: Proposal on the transliteration and transcription of geographical names (submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.14: Methods of transliteration (submitted by Hungary; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.20: Transfer of names from the Thai writing system to Roman letters (submitted by Thailand; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.24: National standardization and writing systems (submitted by Cyprus; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.27: Transfer of names from one writing system to another – into Roman (submitted by the United States; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.29: Romanization of Chinese characters for place names (submitted by the United States; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.31: Some general principles of transliteration and transcription (submitted by the United States; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.32: Collection and treatment of geographic names in Libya (submitted by Libya; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.34: Transfer of names from one writing system to another; Romanization Guide, 1967 (submitted by the United States; digital copy not yet available)
- E/CONF/.53/L.36: Principes de translittération de l'arabe en caractères latins : renseignements présentés par le Gouvernement français (submitted by France; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2, in English)
- E/CONF/.53/L.48: Some problems in rendering geographical names from one system of writing into another (submitted by USSR; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.52: Principes de transcription des toponymes africains (submitted by France; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2, in English)
- E/CONF/.53/L.57: The Roman alphabet rule (submitted by the United Kingdom; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.73: Transliteration (submitted by ISO; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.79: Condition and prospects of the work on orthography and transcription of geographical names in the People's Republic of Bulgaria (submitted by Bulgaria; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2)
- E/CONF/.53/L.82: Noms géographiques en écriture cyrillique (submitted by ICOS; extract from published proceedings in vol. 2, in English)

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